Feedback & Reports

Arrived late morning to find the river in good condition. Tried a few spots including the weir pool area but no fish showing until late afternoon when 1 barbel 7-8lb and 4 chub up to 5lb came in the space of about an hour. The weather was unseasonably hot with bright sunshine for most of the day, which I suspect explains the slow nature of the fishing. Great to be on the river though in beautiful surroundings.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

We found this beat rather hard to fish. The long flat at the bottom of the beat was up to waist with the river at summer level so would have been very difficult to fish with any more water coming down, as would the streamier run alongside the walkway. Access from the high bank was difficult. Fish were rising most of the day coming to mainly drys, sometimes targeting a rise and other times speculating. Best fish was 16". SC caught what he is sure was a small sea trout approx. 12". JT spotted a Mink in the undergrowth and then climbing an overhanging tree. A good day with bright and warm sunshine which didn't seem to put the fish off

14 Trout

A very hot, bright, and humid day made it tough going. Numerous parr and 'fingerling' grayling were caught throughout the beat (counted as 'other' in the return). Very little fly life and very little rising, so we persevered with nymphs and managed 2 trout and 3 grayling between us. We found access easiest upstream of the church - downstream section proved too difficult to get to the water.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling, 12 Other

1 small and 1 cracking 12"wbt on a GRHE-my best wild stream fish of the season.

2 Trout

Weather hot, fishing poor.

1 Chub

Slightly coloured 7lb hen taken on an Ally's Shrimp.

1 Salmon

Tough day. This time I fished upstream from bridge and all fishing activity on was on first two bends.
Rest of beat up to weir a jungle - spent more time getting to water and unhooking from overhead branches than fishing.
I know everyone seems to succeed on this beat with nymphs - but stuck to dry fly. All fish taken on GSB. Would probably had more if I had flies smaller than 16 as missed a lot of slashy takes.
All fish 8" to 10" - I assume the larger fish are lurking in the deeper holes.

6 Grayling

1 Grayling

River quite low, weather very hot but it had bad thunderstorms the night before, caught lots of chublet's from the start, fished every field but ended up behind church and landed on the barbel biggest 8lb smallest 2lb, caught on meat and corn. Good stretch would have fished better if slightly cooler. Thanks WUF

14 Barbel, 20 Chub, 3 Other

Pellet, meat and legered bread.Barbel 2 x 9lbs, 1 x 3lbs
2 barbel before 8am, last one at 6pm.
Walked about half the length of this beat. Good fishable swims turning left after access steps at upper end but it would be great if more swims can be cut after turning right from bottom of steps.
As with previous WUF day tickets at Wyebank and Lower Canon Bridge, the additional info and map were very helpful.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub