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4 Trout

A beautiful location! I'm a beginner and the fishing here wasn't really suited for what i was trying to catch. I tried to fish the pool which I later read on the website isn't suited for the fly. That being said the gutters just above had a number of trout rising in the early morning when i first got there (7am). Afterwards it all went silent until a huge brown trout jumped out of the pool around 12pm. I honestly thought it must have been a salmon at first but I remember seeing red spots on an olive green body. All in all, lovely spot, probably more suited to salmon fishing or using the boat. Not fished properly by myself.

Water clear and very very low! Barbel 5lb came on cage feeder.
All the chub gave us great battles heading for the streamer weed which was good to see.
Being a Saturday we had what seemed to be hundreds of canoes so packed up at around 3.

1 Barbel, 14 Chub

2 barbel at 6 and 2lb, the entrance hole has been filled in and some work has been done on the pegs near the pump.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 Trout

Weather conditions attrocious. Managed 1 small brown on a damsel and a perch

1 Trout, 1 Other

Caught 2 rainbows on ledgered worm in entrance bay

2 Trout, 2 Other

We arrived at the fishery around 9.00am, access to the river is by a gate located to the right of the farm buildings to the very back of the farm. , however this was not clear and obvious as there were narrow ropes extended after the gate as if to indicate no thoroughfare. After raising the attention of one of the farm residents we were advised to remove the rope and replace it once past it. We made our way down to the river where a sign was posted stating Anglers Park here. The weather was fine and temperatures were again still quite warm but slightly overcast for most of the day with no rain. The meadow was divided with an electified cattle fence which prevented us from walking through between the upper and lower extents of the fishery. The first peg closest to where the irrigation pump is located is a reinforced concrete plinth just about big enough to comfortably place a chair or seatbox , however it was extremely overgrown from bankside vegetation and would have proved problematic to fish from. The river was extremely low and clear and large areas of gravel were exposed. A concrete outcrop extended out a 1/3 into the river which if levels were higher would have been a great location to fish a stick float from. The area to the right towards the upstream limit was competely overgrown, mostly with steep banks and no visible access to a comfortable fishing spot for the entire length. We decided to head towards the downstream section but in order to do this we needed to pass all our gear, rod bags, holdalls etc under the electrified wire and then crawl under it ourselves. Access to the gravels was approximately 200 metres from the car park with reasonable access but still quite steep for anyone who struggles in anyway with mobility issues. We decided to fish from the gravels a litle bit further down where a slight run off appeared to run faster into deeper water about 4ft. This was confirmed by passing canoeists who indicated the depth using their paddles a gauge. We fished light with a bomb to reduce disturbance in the swim and hand fed hemp and caster with catapults, we tried pellet in various combinations and sizes including meat and fished up to 18:00. There was little indication all day of fish present in the swim and we only managed 1 eel, 3 chub and 3 dace between the two of us. Canoeists were a bit of a pain passing every 2 minutes and later we had paddle boarders on the gravel bar making loads of noise and walking in the river only 100 yards away. Bites were virtually non existent and we left extremely disappointed . With such poor access and a distinct lack of peg management we woud need to be quite desperate to fish here again.

3 Chub, 2 Other

Windy and difficult conditions. Unable to find the fish

3 Chub