Feedback & Reports

This is the first time I've visited the fishery. I started at the 'Lucky Stone' and soon had 4 Chub to trotted meat. After this went quite I moved downstream to the wider areas. Fishing a small PVA bag of pellets on a straight lead down the middle of the river resulted in pretty much a fish a chuck. To be honest I lost count of the number I caught. All Chub in the 2-3lb bracket.

Advice to those visiting for the first time would be, travel as light as possible ( rod, net and a small bag) the Lucky Stone is a tricky spot to get to.
Fish heavy! These fish aren't tackle shy. I fished 18lb mainline and 15lb fluro hook length on the lead set up. Most of the Chub pulled the rod over as you would expect a Barbel too! Finally small baits. All the lead caught Chub were caught on 8mm pellets. Back tomorrow. Hopefully for a Barbel.

12 Chub

Arrived after some recent rain full, a slight colour, touch of flow. Dropped just 1 swim. Fished feeder krill mix with hemp and various pellets with krill dumbells. Lots of bites couldn't hit them as weed engulfing hook. Persevered as I could tell these were Barbel takes. After a dozen casts to same spot weed was clearing. Lost 3 Barbel, caught 6 Barbel and 4 Chub. Thunder storm called play at 16.00hrs. Lots of canoes but Barbel keeped feeding. Happy days

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

First time at How Caple Court, beautiful but pretty challenging conditions, very shallow in many swims, and a big thunderstorm in the afternoon. Pleased to have caught, all on spicy sausage pellet once it had clouded over. One rod wiped out by inept tied together canoeists.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

The whole purpose of out 200 mile trip was for my son to catch his first Barbel & Chub. We gambled on the " Lucky stone " and were lucky to find it free.
The swim ( peg ) had been fished by another angler that morning, so a gentle trickle of hemp & pellets produced a quality Chub first cast. Latter during a very wet day my son Managed not only one but four Barbel to just under 9lb. In total he had four Barbel & 5 Chub.
A word of warning: Access to the stone is quite dubious in places so don't attempt this if you not good on your feet and certain don't carry to much gear.
Tight lines.
Karl, Deb's & Jude.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 Trout

9 Trout

We caught 9 trout in total (7 rainbows and 2 brownies) and 1 small perch
Most were caught on prawn, couple on worms and 1 on fly rod with buzzer under indicator

9 Trout, 1 Other

My second visit to this beat and had a go but unsuccessful. Access to water is difficult as you have to battle through lots greenery. Tried straight nymphing on the deeper pools but no luck. Not so much rain and there was lots of rises on the flats near the tree line. Again a better fisher would have caught as casting was difficult.

2 Grayling