Feedback & Reports

Hard day as expected with river low. Fed hemp and caster. Managed two decent chub and lost one barbel to a hook pull. Not many fish showing really either.
A bit of a gripe... I removed a few bits of angling origin litter up the top end, including a discarded barbed hook. One of my chub was gut hooked with someone else's line coming out of it..I ended up cutting the line. Meanwhile my barbless hook had fallen out in the net. I didn't get my ticket checked and I'd be happy to have my gear checked to ensure compliance.
Canoe traffic was light but a party in the afternoon made up for it. I always make myself visible when I see them coming and in the past have had polite canoeists go right over the other side to minimise inconvenience. No such luck. These decided to come towards me a third of the way across. Rising above it I wound in to avoid my line being touched and was ignoring them as they came right in front saying something about "Mr Fisherman" so I suggested they could have gone over the other side. This prompted a comment I didn't hear which was met with laughter before they carried on splashing around, shouting and hooting on top of about 10 quids worth of bait. I assume they had hired them as they looked the canoeing equivalent of "noddies" and hope the hire company can better instill good practice in customers in future. I am sure some canoeists are just oblivious and mean no particular harm but the "we don't care" attitude of this group was frustrating.

2 Chub

River low, all caught in fast runs on weighted nymphs. No joy or interest on the dry. All fish 5-12 inch. Pleasant days fishing.

5 Trout, 8 Grayling

Arrived about 9 am, same hot sunny conditions as at Lower Carrots yesterday. It wasn't until mid/late afternoon that we were rewarded with 3 Barbel - 9.5 lb,10 lb,and 11 lb plus 1 eel. All caught on meat, fish weren't interested in pellets.

3 Barbel, 1 Other

It will be good to see the rain this weekend!

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

Wonderful afternoons fishing, best trout 14 inches, best grayling 12 inches. Fish feeding on the surface all over the place. Lots of takes, very hard to hook, most fish had on gold head hares ears. Beautiful beat, we will be back.

9 Trout, 8 Grayling

Thought it might be tough going today, flat calm low and crystal clear. Walked down to the bottom of the beat and saw nothing on the way! Fished french leader style in the streamier water around the rocks and caught lots of tiny trout and only a few grayling 9 to 12" (lost one that felt big in one of the pools). Back again tomorrow,change of tactics needed I think!

15 Trout, 5 Grayling

Four good fish all on nymphs the largest was just over 2lb then 2 of around the 1lb mark and another just over half a pound! Really nice beat wading tricky in places.

4 Grayling

Hard going today with only 2 barbel caught.

2 Barbel

Again with the water low and clear we thought that catching fish might be a no go. We had 7 Barbel between us using spicy baits and ground baits. The weather was overcast so I believe this helped. Fished the upper section by the orchard finding the channel two thirds across. So nice to be out within great scenery watching the wildlife go by. Thanks to WUF for letting this happen.

7 Barbel

First of two day session. Only managed a couple of hours but caught a few nice fish. Barbel to about six pounds and chub to about four. All on pellets or homemade boilies.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub