Feedback & Reports

6 Barbel

Wonderful days fishing. Friend unable to come so I had the beat to myself. Chose to fish the bottom end of the beat as there were anglers on the far bank in the top end of the beat, which looked far more barbel. So ended up fishing a slower swim but i had the place to myself and just enjoyed catching chub to 5lb. And then I had a surprise.......a beautiful 8lb barbel came along and picked up my luncheon meat. Fabulous day, thank you.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Our second day was a bit more productive having found a couple of pegs where the fish seemed to be. Lots of chub and barbel turned on around midday, all to pellet. Unfortunately we had to pack up around 6 otherwise more fish would have been caught. A 12lb cock salmon was also taken that took some beating!! A good couple of days to start the season off.
WUF Note: We are very grateful for reporting the salmon capture. However, this fish won't be added to the "official" salmon catches as it was not caught on fly or spinner.

1 Salmon, 10 Barbel, 20 Chub

2 Trout

2 Chub

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

River was low - fish caught on luncheon meat

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Not a lot to report other than the eels were playing ball. River very low and not much flow.

4 Other

Good day for all 3 anglers, size of barbel was quite small, I would suggest larger fish were spawning.

11 Barbel, 8 Chub

As I hadn’t fished this beat before, and as a Father’s Day treat before breakfast, I fished a very small section of this lovely beat for a couple of hours. Some lovely looking pools, which would benefit from a slight pruning around. However, managed 3 where pools were more accessible and i didn’t mess up back cast. Will return to explore further next time!

3 Trout