Feedback & Reports

1 Trout

What a funny old day. I booked this last minute as the information i had suggested the river would be in good order for barbel fishing. Not much worse than putting a load of planning into a trip months in advance only to find the river either on its bones or in full on zambezi flood when the allotted day comes. Arriving at the river after an hour and half's drive, it looked perfect. Lots of colour, lots of flow (though the data available suggested it would be slowly dropping through the day). I parked at the woods, having had great sessions there in the past. Couldn't have been more confidant as i cast out but an hour and a half later, absolutely nothing had shown any interest either to meat or pellet. Also, the fallen tree that was to the right hand side of my favourite swim has mostly been washed away now so the protection this used to offer in breaking the flow has kind of gone. Anyway, around 11.30 i went for a wander and having scouted the meadow i decided to move. I decided to rove the swims there - i'd have two or three casts in each and then move if i'd not had any response. First swim, nothing - but in the second, i had a rattling kind of a bite on meat and struck in to nothing. Next cast, same thing but i left it longer and this time had an eel. I know lots of people hate them but personally i love them to bits! So out went the meat again and same result, a second eel. Then it went quiet. Two or three swim moves later and i was in the man-hole cover swim, pondering why i'd not done better. Around 3 o'clock, i finally had a bite on pellet and an 8.02 barbel was duly caught. This is it, i thought - but no. No more bites happened and at 4.30 or so i decided to call it quits and go home. There's every chance i could have had another couple of fish in the last hours of daylight but to be honest, it was never going to turn in to a red letter day. I can't believe i didn't see a single chub all day (or even have a pluck!) but there it is.

1 Barbel, 2 Other

3 Trout

2 Trout

1 small perch on ledgered worm between 2 anglers using float, ledgering, spinning and fly. Not a good day.

1 Other

3 fish on taken in a morning session.

3 Barbel

River high & coloured but falling. Fished the inside slack on pylon bend & lugg mouth. My only options given the conditions. Using pellet & meat. Just the one barbel . But the chub didn’t disappoint. Just nice to be on the river.

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

With the amount of rain over the last two days the river was high and fast flowing with a lot of debris coming down stream. This made for a challenging days fishing however it was a glorious day weather wise.
A few bites through out the day and one nice Chubb caught at 3lbs 5oz so all was not lost.

1 Chub

Great day … probably our best ever, got amongst the barbel early and the sport continued throughout the day.

9 Barbel, 1 Chub

5 Barbel