Feedback & Reports

Although the river was low there had been some improvement in the conditions due to some heavy rain over the weekend.

Our group caught 11 Barbel and 1 Chub all to feeder tactics, we look forward to coming back later in the week.

11 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished 4 hours on a warm bright day. Saw many juvenile trout but nothing above 5". Saw no fish rising and nothing appeared to be hatching. I am a complete novice with fly techniques which may explain my failure to catch. Tried various dry patterns and also a wet but no interest. Beautiful location. Access is hard. No phone signal.

Another great day's trotting in much cooler conditions than of late. Lots of dace and chub, with a couple of barbel unexpectedly landed today.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub, 30 Other

Another great day standing in the water with the centrepin, with plenty of chub and a bonus barbel to liven things up a bit.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

two nice rainbow 1 on spiner and the other on bottom worm

2 Trout

4 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Chub

Fished the afternoon and early evening, alternated between 3 swims but mainly caught from 1, only weighed the largest which happened to be the 2nd fish, 1st was small, weighed 8.6lb, didn't weigh any more, all fish fought really hard but only took a few minutes to recover but kept them a bit longer, the other fish were all in the 5-7lb bracket. Couldn't catch chub at all, trying corn & different pellet, all barbel fell to single 10mm barbel blitz. Very quiet on the canoe front saw 8 all afternoon.

7 Barbel

First use of the Fishing passport site to book and it is an excellent and informative website. Home fishery is a beautiful spot with fast and slow stretches. I didn't catch any fish. The river was low even after a couple of days of rain. The main problem I encountered was too much weed catching the line and having to recast pellet bait with PVA bag. I will return maybe in the winter.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub