Feedback & Reports

Arrived at the beat around 5pm and began fishing. We started off on pellet and bomb and were bothered by small chub eventually managed the occasional small barbel.
The swim then went quiet so we rolled some meat. We managed a few good chub (4lb plus) doing this then got settled back in on the pellet and bomb.
We then seemed to attract a better stamp of barbel (for Wyebank which is know for its miniature barbel straight from the barbel factory) and caught steadily on large pellets.
Another good session without a groundbait feeder in sight!!!

15 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Sunny evening on a quiet stretch of river. The wood at either end of the beat were very hard to get through/access. Some nice stretches below the upstream weir. No fish rising this evening - no luck on dry or nymph.

First time on this stream and a lovely afternoon's fishing. Half a dozen trout to 10". Very few rising and all fish came to a bead head PTN.

6 Trout

fished in the wooded area towards the lower end of the beat a quiet day for me but my only bite of the day came at dusk and resulted in a superb barbel of10 lbs 6 oz AP fared better with 7 barbel up to 9 lbs 12oz and 2 chub

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

We all used feeders and pellets for hook bait. I had high expectations of this venue but sadly I was a little disappointed. Absolutely no swims had been cut out for fishing, we walked the whole stretch and still didn't know where to fish because of lack of swims, unlike the opposite bank where locals had proper cut out swims to fish and at a fraction of the price. Having said all that we did all catch chub and barbel in the areas we ended up fishing which was on the concrete near where you park and on the beach.

13 Barbel, 14 Chub

River in good condition but low and clear. Occasionaly bright conditions made it difficult. Managed to catch a number of chub and 1 barbel by moving around from swim to swim. Overall a very pleasant days fishing - will be back!!

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Great streatch of river with a lot of potential. Access very good all the way along.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Trout returned. Size 6".

8 Trout

Trout were rising in Farm Pool but not taking the fly.

My second visit to Lyepole, the first being back at the beginning of the year, the river and surroundings looked even more stunning in late summer, this really is a lovely place to be.
Walked all the way down stream and found some very fishy looking spots but couldn't get a take, then as I made my way back up stream I noticed fish taking off the surface in the most inaccessible spot, after a lot of effort I was in a position to present a fly to the taking fish...and then managed to miss 5 good takes on a dry fly, not the best start but very exciting stuff!
After lunch the hatch of small, pale up winged flies that the fish were feeding on in the morning were still coming off the water and I found some more feeding fish, this time upstream from the car park. This time I had better luck landing a nice brown trout and quickly losing another, resting that glide I moved downstream to find more feeding fish which turned out to be very small grayling, lovely to see healthy young fish in the river but I decided to leave them alone till they'd grown up a bit so moved on and promptly landed a lovely big grayling and another brown trout, all fish taken off the surface on small dries, very enjoyable fishing.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling