Feedback & Reports

Fished from mid morning to 6.15 as I was under orders to be back at the hotel in time for dinner.
Had barbel first at 5lb 6oz and lost another soon after that got snagged in my swim. A 3rd barbel was hooked before my line mysteriously parted , possibly due to damage from earlier snag which I hadn’t detected. The bright sun now was at its fiercest and bites came to a halt , moved to another swim that was partly shaded and had 7 chub , best 4lb 2oz. Enjoyable, but I felt I should’ve done better.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

no bites all day. fished both sides of lake using float with worm and spinning....

Lovely day possibly a bit to bright ,fished the field as Woods under water , we all had a babel and chub ,

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

1 ‘small’ Barbel c3lb, largest Chubb c5.5lbs. Fished by hut.

1 Barbel, 40 Chub

Fished 9:30am to 5:30pm. Cold start +3C. Nothing rising so fished the rocky pools at the top and under the trees and along the edges with nymphs, down and across. No takes. There was a good hatch of BWO from midday and spinners from around 5:00pm. At 4:00pm the trout started rising to micro flies. Scaled down to various size 22 flies with 1.0mm tippet but could not get any takes. Nice day out in some glorious weather but super frustrating.

Very hard today yet water levels and temp would suggest it was a good day for fishing ………???us or the fish?. Good to see it properly padlocked .

6 Chub

Two barbel late afternoon, worth the wait… best 8:5lbs

2 Barbel, 1 Other

1 Trout

1 Trout

We resisted the temptation of the top section and short walk and did the long slog down to the bottom section. Its not a pleasant experience and only do it if you are reasonably fit I would say. That said given the not favorable conditions it fished okay.
The Barbel were all nice fish, a 5lb, 2 x 6lb, 2 x 7lb and the best a lovely 9lb 3oz, and my personal Wye PB. The Chub were nearly all good fish as well, most of them ranging from 2-4lb with a couple nudging 5lb

6 Barbel, 31 Chub