Feedback & Reports

Mainly overcast with the odd sunny interval.Good level and flow and WT of 8 degrees C. Tried various swims and picked up odd fish. A pleasing end of the season day. Roll on June!

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

This was my first time on this beat and it was a real pleasure. My brother and I had the whole section to ourselves. In the morning we fished upstream of the bridge and around midday there was a great hatch of dark olives. It lasted 25 minutes but trout showed mostly in medium to shallow water areas. We caught two on dries. In the afternoon nothing much was showing so I fished with a beaded pheasant tail nymph and indicator and had six more whilst my brother had two fishing wets downstream. Most fish were around the one pound mark with a 15 inch one that topped the day. Great day, cannot wait to return.

10 Trout

Drove up from Plymouth and stayed in Hereford o/night.
Fished here several times, prior. Magical. Had a new plan....my dream plan.
Armed with my new chesties and clip-on back bag prepped and loaded I set out to fish, firstly, from the top end of the beat, via the orchard, to park by the designated tree, so I could get out and sort me kit, pop over the stile and walk out into the river there for a heavenly hour or two, early in the morning, fishing for the Chub, Dace & Whiskers, then drive on down to the bottom beat lay-by, to fish from the field, from the prime Barbel and Chub swims, for the pm, until dark. What could possibly go wrong?
Was actually there, at the gates, for 6:30 (daybreak) - that's how prepared & excited I was. Got to the entry to the orchard and found, for the first time, the gates wide open, which was nice, if somewhat perplexing?
Turned into the orchard and couldn't believe me eyes, man!
Transpires they'd only (as is their right; it's their land after all) chosen now to prune ALL the trees in the orchard and pile ALL the cuttings 10ft high, 15ft across, EVERY 10yds, adjacent to the end of EVERY line of trees! So there was NO way through!!!
Tried; scratched both sides of the car in the first 30 yards and, in the half light, it looked as it got ‘worse’ as you looked down across the orchard …………… "Bu----!" Had to do a 10 point turn then to scratch my way back out again!
So THAT plan went out the window and I settled for doing the bottom of the beat for the whole day.
Yet ANOTHER one for my almanac! Why me? On the bright side, ’least they hadn’t drained it. The river. (And, yes; it HAS happened to me, on a lake in the F o D during a holiday break planned around fishing the said lake! Drained it, the week prior!). Never boring...

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Very slow indeed despite good conditions. One bite, one fish- a decent chub.

1 Chub

Lovely day on a lovely stretch of river, 2 x 3lb chub and a 8lb 6oz barbel.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Nil caught, low and clear water.

The water was a bit rough so nothing caught that day. Would have had better chance if weather better. I will maybe try in summer.

Legered soft hook pellet for both fish on a brisk river requiring 2oz gripper leads. Both fish taken by same angler on the swim nearest the Seven Trent yard.

2 Barbel

Fish caught deep down on a nymph. Water conditions cold but good.

1 Trout