Feedback & Reports

Fished wooded section 2nd to end peg. Did not start fishing until 2 o'clock and caught all fish late on in the last two hours. All fish of good size barbel 6-8lb and chub 3-5lb. Thanks to Don for his help and guidance.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

Arrived at 11am. Nice sunny day, light down stream wind, river low evidence of recent spate. Cormorant by road bridge ! Plenty of small fry in margins. Fish taken on all types of fly dries, wet, copper headed nymphs Best fish 9 ins all returned no grayling. Nice day out!

10 Trout

18.00 to 21.00hrs Top end of Leggs Meadow, banded 16mm Marine Halibut on simple free-sliding light leger with 18 inch hooklength fished about 15 feet out. 15lb main line, 10lb hook-length both ESP, size 8 hook and 2lb test curve rod meant I could lift the barbel off bottom before going into and under weed. I lost no tackle. Catapult fed loose small pellets and cracked marine pellets lightly at 15min intervals. 2 Chub around 3 to 4lb then 4 barbel in 5 to 7lb size and a quickly weighed Barbel of 10lb 9oz just at last light. No activity in last 30mins. Looks like the anticipated September Barbel season has started!

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful day on a great beat. 9 hard fighting grayling all 12"+ and as many lost. All but one on small dry flies.

9 Grayling

Two small brown trout fell to olive hare's ear nymph on a fairly quick visit to the Honddu before returning home. A nice beat and AB's first ever wild brownie! I think the rigours of the last two day's fishing was taking it's toll half way up this beat as we both agreed at one point that " we were fishing like a pair of clowns ! "
All in all another enjoyable trip, and a definite convert in AB, another nutter added to the ranks folks !
Thanks as always to WUF.

2 Trout

Fished from 5.30pm. All fish caught on 10mm pellets with freebies catapulted in periodically. First barbel of the session lost and then action steadily through the evening. Best fish included ones of 9.2, 9.3, 9.9, 10.2.
One of our favourite beats. Nice to meet Rudy.

13 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Bright with a cold wind. The water was gin clear, so long leaders were the order of the day. Had one nice fish early on swinging a small black spider. Picked up a couple of smaller fish through the day on small tungsten nymphs
As the light started to soften there as a small flurry of hatching insects that got the trout moving that produced 3 fish in about 20 minutes to a size 16 CDC & Elk.

6 Trout

Rather warm sunny day, used the swims approx 100 yards past the woodland walk. Gorgeous accessible swim, wonderful wildlife on display. Challenging swim, lively flow and much weed on bottom. Needed to be able to cast past halfway across river, not clear enough to target areas of clear gravel,therefore an element of luck in avoiding the weed. Used standard feeder tactics as trotting would not have been possible in this swim, used boilie hook baits. Challenging to discern the bites sometimes (as opposed to weed effects on the line)and lost some good fish in the weedy conditions but were able to land 6 barbel (to 9lbs). The most experienced and expert barbel angler in our party was able to cope with the conditions better than the rest of us and out-fished us. Thank you for a glorious day.

6 Barbel

3 Trout

3 x Barbel and 2 x Big Chub

3 Barbel, 2 Chub