Feedback & Reports

River up a bit from the previous week. Weather very warm and unrelentingly sunny (despite towering clouds to east and west). Fishing in the woodland, I started at around 16.00, but not a touch until 20.00, when the first bite resulted in a barbel of 7-8. Quiet again until 21.00 when I had three fish on before close of play. Unfortunately two were lost when the hook link was broken on the numerous sharp rocks. However the final bite brought a good fish of 8-14, so I left with a smile on my face.

2 Barbel

A beautiful tranquil location for which we had perfect weather, just a light breeze and broken cloud. As well as a 4WD the other essential bit of kit here are waders, it's very boggy all around the lake. Plenty of fish were rising all day, taking a shuttlecock emerger (3) and flying ants (1) with the remaining six on the wet with a Bibio point fly, steadfastly ignoring other wet flies on the droppers. There seemed to be a lot more activity on the deeper western shore than on the east. Aggressive takes and beautifully coloured feisty fish with a good number lost too. Perfect.

10 Trout

Not easy fishing as the river was dropping after the higher water. Need to move around to find the barbel.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another fine day at this lovely beat. Fish were slow to get started but fed hard for a couple of hours in late afternoon. We found barbel in several swims, all in spectacular condition. Chub plentiful, hungry and getting bigger by the week! Very good to see a couple of small barbel of a pound or so in the mix.

25 Barbel, 30 Chub

No fish during the day. Had to leave at 6pm before the best time to catch

River very low - 9" on the Gromain webcam. No salmon seen or caught.

3 Trout, 2 Chub

Water slightly coloured and faster following some rain upstream but fish didn't really switch on. However a nice quiet day with canoeists in the main quite considerate and polite. Feeder and pellets produced the fish we did catch

5 Barbel, 6 Chub