Feedback & Reports

A few hours in a late afternoon and evening session. Good flow in the river, which rose several inches while I was there. A fair amount of weed in my swim but managed to negotiate this to land five nice barbel up to 7lbs 12 ozs. All on pellet and feeder.

5 Barbel

All fish caught on New Zealand dropper.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 Trout

26 Trout

River level was up but fining down with a slight tinge of colour. 1 Barbel and 1 Chub caught during the afternoom and the rest caught in a 2 hour feeding spell to dusk. All caught on meat. Absolute chaos with the canoes resulting in one sinking in my swim and another turning over in the far bank willows with kids screaming they didn't want to die hanging onto the branches and their dad who wasn't wearing a life jacket trying to get them out!.. which thankfully he did. The Wyebank stretch is fast flowing especially with higher water levels and some of these people have not been in a canoe before, the hire companies should station someone at Lydbrook to keep an eye on and advise their customers how to tackle this stretch without hitting the cribs or far bank trees and sinking!... It might also help us anglers.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

8 Barbel, 3 Other

10 Chub