Feedback & Reports

River fining down nicely and weather fantastic if not too bright.
Best barbel 7lb. All fish caught on luncheon meat.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Despite having remedied Wednesday's blank here with 2 barbel on Friday, having pulled out of 3 and lost my way mid sesh, I felt I needed another chance. The 2m rise over the weekend provided it and following extensive negotiations with my Mgt, she said I could have Tuesday as an extra fishing day. 2.5 degrees on the Bank but with a 11.5 degree water temp and loads of colour, I felt confident. 3 barbel before the sun came on the water, then barbel every hour or so, working my way up and down the line, till I packed at 5. Most on 10mm halibut but 3 to change baits, from 3lb to 8.12. A really great day for me.
Only 3 swims to pick from up by the waterworks and two of those are either weedy or snaggy. Maybe this big flush will help that. When soggy, only one parkimg spot by the waterworks, in the gateway, so if more than one car, meet in the riverside car park at Lydbrook, transfer the gear into one car and go up there with that.

11 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Feeder and meat produced 4 barbel to 8lb and one 3lb chub .plenty of sunshine although chilly, river starting to fall.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 eel

5 Chub, 1 Other

River low and dropping . Stunning scenery but no Barbel this year .

11 Chub

The swims in the first field were ok but further downstream access to the river is poor. The opposite side is a non starter

12 Chub

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

A new beat to ourselves, we drove from Preston and arrived about 9 o clock. After a walk of the beat we decided to fish 2 adjoining pegs as there was only 2 us and my father in law is not 100% on his feet.
We fished the dead tree peg, the river was nicely coloured and dropping off. We had knocks from the off but only caught at about lunchtime. I caught my first barbel on meat and also a chub, then my father in law caught a barbel on krill pellets. There was a large Salmon splashing around in front of us which was good to see. The rest of the fish came later in the day David caught a barbel just as was getting dark and as it was resting my rod went over so we ended with 2 in the net. David's was the biggest barbel of the day and dwarfed my fish in the net. , We didn't take a decent photo as we just wanted to get them back and the banks were a bit dodgy in the darkness.
Thanks for a great day. Hopefully our other fishing mate gets better soon and join us again.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Good days fishing.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub