Feedback & Reports

A lovely day on the river but hard. Lost one fish in the weeds. Thankfully it was not tethered as I got the hook back on the mainline (the lead dropped off thanks to the release system). I suspect it was a chub based on the initial bite.
Conditions were sunny mostly, but a significant drop in air temp/humidity from the previous day - I could probably make an excuse out of that but I wont. :-)

Water levels relatively high. Small trout caught.

1 Trout

1x common carp (11.5lbs)

1 Other

3 grayling and 4 brownies. all except 1 grayling were caught nearer church end of beat. At church catch also spotted an otter in tree on bank opposite gravel patch. All fish returned.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Enjoyable day on a lovely stretch of water the river was a funny height neither up nor down making it hard to pinpoint where they might be I'm sure you know what I mean. Caught the barbel and chub on pellets and the trout (a first from the river for me never having fished with live bait before) on maggot. Thank you W.U.F.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Caught all fish on luncheon meat, straight bomb. Good river and weather conditions.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Nil return.

Commons to 12lb.

5 Other

Our first session on this beat, and a terrific stretch of water. Large sections of the water are readily accessible, with a variety of slow and faster runs.
A high wind downstream made it challenging, but we tempted a few to the net with small weighted nymphs and spider patterns. Numerous parr were caught (counted as 'other' in the return) - so nice to see a healthy river.
We'll certainly be back to this stretch.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling, 12 Other

Had a great day on a wonderfull river, only 4 swims but this was expected on such a short stretch. Very powerful water that is about 6 feet deep, ideally to suited to this time of the year and we were helped that river had benefited from rain earlier in the week and had a touch of colour.
Fished from 9am to 4pm and caught from the 1st cast to the last cast of the day. Started with Chub most in the 2 to 3LB range but a number of smaller Chub caught on a big stick then as day went on had more Barbel, bit misleading saying we had 35, as about 20 were about a pound. But the rest were between 3 and 5LB. Also caught a number of very large Dace up to 12 ounce.
Had to change to a Waggler early afternoon as wind became very difficult but still caught. A shame we had to leave early as the bigger fish were starting to come on the feed.

33 Barbel, 60 Chub, 20 Other