Feedback & Reports

One trout was caught and both rods fished on worm. Having not fished the reservoir for many years I was surprised to find that it now holds a large amount of perch. I feel that there is a lack of information boards regarding fishing areas around the dam and we failed to find what time we could fish until.
It seems that the upkeep of the reservoir is not what it should be which saddens me as this is a beautiful reservoir in an idyllic location.

1 Trout

1 x Brown Trout with worm, 1 x Brown Trout on fly.

2 Trout

Fished the afternoon. There was an olive hatch at about 2pm. Caught on klinkhamer style greenwells. Missed a few others and frightened some as river was clear. This happened mostly in the flat watered parts of pools. A relaxing few hours in the company of a couple of soaring red kites.

1 Trout

Lots of fish moving through the beat. Water carrying some colour but clearing slowly throughout the day. Put a fly through Little Stream a few times and span the rest.

Pulled even more bloody himalayan balsam

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Excellent days fishing on interesting bit of water 7 fish caught on either bead head pheasant tail nymph with peacock dubbing collar or green copper john fished under klinkhammer other fish hairwing sedge. Most of fish caught in last 2 hours of day. ALL fish were released

8 Trout

Three Wild Carp caught on bread and sweetcorn. Float fished from the northern bank.

3 Other

Three of us fished over 2 days. We only found 3 accessible pegs all upstream from the car park area ending at what is known as Vanstone Pool. Although we walked the length of the stretch downstream, we could not find access to those pegs marked on the map as Parson Tree, Rope Pool and Ford Stream. Suggest some signage would be helpful. We did catch but not prolifically. Our best fish were two Barbel over 8lbs and two chub over 4lbs. Chub were mainly caught with trotting bacon grill and sweetcorn. Barbel were caught on a variety of hair rigged baits:- 8mm and 10mm Halibut pellet, 8mm Robin Red and sweetcorn.
It is a lovely stretch of water but we feel that we didn't fulfill its potential due to not being able to find the pegs shown on the map. The water was cloudy on our first day but a little clearer on the second. We would be happy to return again if we could be sure of easier, clearer access to all the pegs on the whole stretch.

10 Barbel, 22 Chub

Arrived early and caught all day long. 5 or 6 chub to every barbel. Fished various swims. Barbel to 7lb and chub to 6lb. Lovely beat.

12 Barbel, 50 Chub

Float fished fast water pegs, good watercraft required but great results. 8 mm banded carp pellets..

3 Barbel, 12 Chub