Feedback & Reports

Conditions not ideal, only fished for a few hours in the afternoon. Managed to finally land a hard fighting 8lb 5oz barbel from the faster water on rolled meat.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel, 14 Chub

3 Barbel, 12 Chub

9 Chub

Nice and diverse beat. Altough quite a few large extremely slow deep pools that we skipped with dry fly.
We found a handfull of typical grayling currents. small sedge, bwo, pale watery tied in emerger style on CdC no18-20.

10 Grayling

5 Chub

Fished the downstream fast water section. Started really well with a barbel and non stop chub. To the feeder.Then bites dried up. Saw a few barbel under the the really overgrown middle section bankside tree line but just no way to cut a swim to get a bait to them. Very frustrating. My fishing partner ventured further down near a cattle drink. & was accosted by a number of over curious cows. Which had him scampering back. All in all an interesting day.

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

River very low. 14 chub caught from 4 oz. to 4lb caught on meat with stickfloat. Thankyou for a nice day of fishing in unspoilt quiet countryside. Hopefully I will try another stretch next year.

14 Chub

1 Barbel, 3 Chub