Feedback & Reports

Caught on orange eggs in morning and green in afternoon. Tried spinning with no luck. Water has significantly dropped.

4 Trout

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

This was a really hot morning session. We landed 2 eels and a chub at the lower section wher you park.

3 Other, 1 Chub

Very low water very hot no bites or fish. Every cast throughout the day just fed the crayfish.

All barbel caught on pellets apart from one on meat. 2 eels on pellet, they seem to be making a comeback. Nice to watch the little egret fishing opposite us for most of the day.

10 Barbel, 2 Other

Fished this beat a few times, and it’s a stunner. Much better access under the current ownership! As expected conditions were difficult. The river was low and clear, with little flow. We managed 1 stunning Barbel of 9lb 4oz and a big Chub. On the whole a great day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A wonderful but very hot day. The river was pretty low and clear. To be honest I lost count of the number of chub I caught, they came steadily throughout the day. The barbel were hard work but I had a couple on the float and then at dusk I caught 6 in 30 minutes!

8 Barbel, 20 Chub

Our first visit to this fishery, so given the conditions, made a donation in the church offertory box and walked the bank before unloading the car. Felt that the fish were likely to be in the faster, oxygenated water of the Church Stream and settled there. It became apparent that huge rafts of weed, both surface and subsurface were going to be problematic so swapped to trotting. A couple of chub resulted before the arrival of the canoes. We clearly hadn't considered that the very narrow, fast flowing stretch, was the only water available to the canoes. Later a pair of kayak's beached on the island. From one, a middle aged gent disappeared into the trees to perform his ablutions. He reappeared, walked to the middle of the stream, dropped his shorts and proceeded to clean his backside, charming. To round off a perfect day, as we drove back towards Backney Upper at approx 10.30pm, we passed the vehicle of the "night shift" from the previous day, parked up and empty. No doubt ensconced in their swim and preparing to fish the most productive period free of charge!

3 Chub

Fished 8-10pm. Unsurprisingly given the weather, not a lot of activity led to a blank.