Feedback & Reports

Fished from 12:00-2:30pm before the forecast rain arrived. All but one fish caught on the ptn below a bushy klink. Jungle warfare tactics.....the river showing all of its bones and in desperate need of rain.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

River is the lowest I've ever seen it.
Caught a barbel of around 7lb at first light. Moved to the fast water between the island and sat and watched 2 lovely barbel for a round 10 mins in an unreachable part of the flow feeding on some pellets that I sent their way.
Caught a small barbel of around 2lb in the flow before moving back past the church towards the bridge and catching a small chub of just under 2lb.
Campers were in the second field so didn't fish there like I usually would.
Wedding in the church and the only time I've ever finished early on a beat and needed to get home I got blocked in the car park. Bet they really appreciated a wet fisherman gatecrashing the after wedding drinks....

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Just fished for a couple of hours in the morning. Very interesting and varied beat.

1 Barbel

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Was interesting to be able to see nearly every feature of the river bed with polaroids on when the water level is so low;Looks a different river. Was prospecting for chub ,but after 20 mins in nearly every run without a touch I put the coarse rod away & fished with a dry fly stripped through the faster water. I'm sure one of the trout was not a wild brownie ,but had all the hallmarks of a 'stockie'?

3 Trout

Plenty of water in the river, but all the same the lowest I've seen it. Fished both the bottom and top sections on the map and caught 17 wbt on a variety of dry. Most fish between 6 and 10 inches, with one or two smaller, and one or two larger.
I spooked a very, very large fish as I entered the pool just below the house which keeps their bank private. It was so big it spooked me too! Next time I'm gonna need a bigger boat.

17 Trout

Despite the heavy overnight deluge of rain, anticipation was high unfortunately it made no difference and with a bright sunny dawn made conditions extremely difficult in finding the fish. The canoe traffic was very heavy with most being very considerate and apologetic when tangled in my line, at one point I could not get a rod back in the water for @ 40mins due to the high consentration of various crafts.
Cracking beat, access to most if not all swims was very good with a variety of steep and good firm banks, direction to the beat were spot on m, well done WUF . Came away early due to the heavy canoe traffic, no fish this time but looking forward to returning after some welcome rain.

6 Barbel

5 Barbel, 10 Chub