Feedback & Reports

Tough day but we managed a few. This was the last of five trips I had booked on Courtfield this year, but I might try and squeeze another in towards the end of October if we get mild weather. A good year though all things considered with plenty of big barbel and chub caught despite less than ideal conditions for a lot of the Summer. Great beat, a lovely bit of river. I will return!

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

10 x grayling 6-15 inches, needed for DNA sample survey. Grey Duster and Elk Hair Sedge. Cold morning, low water, very hot and bright later. It's funny how, when you absolutely have to have fish for a survey, how elusive they become and how hard you must work to get them.

10 Grayling

Not being a coarse fisherman I believe what I caught was a chub. I also caught a roach of about 1 pound, both fish were caught on a size 10 stoats tail double.

1 Chub, 1 Other

7 fish from 6-12 inches, on tiny black and olive klinkhammers and a size 16 gold head hares ear.

7 Trout

Fished through to 3am, 4 Sewin on black and silver tubes and snakes. Average 2lbs.

4 Sea Trout

Fished from dawn til dusk. River level was low but water was clear. Sunny hot conditions made fishing difficult. Caught chub to 5lb but the day was topped off with a 9lb barbel..nice small beat only 2 swims were fishable. A lot of snags so lost a few feeders but overall enjoyed the day. 3 car park spaces right next to the swim.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Hard but enjoyable day. Hook pulled out of barbel early in session. One 6lb fish later in day.

1 Barbel

3 Trout, 5 Grayling

Same conditions, beautiful for fishing but not ideal for catching fish! P and myself today and P opted to fish both float and feeder from the first croy. I chose the next croy down to do the same. I started on the float with 8mm pellet and P on the feeder, with no response on the feeder. P switched to the float and caught Chub straight away but despite fishing exactly the same way, I couldn't get a bite and after a couple of hours on the feeder, decided to move upstream to the Oxford run which looked good but was slow with the added problem of lots of floating weed coming down which I'm convinced caused me to pull out of a Barbel about 6pm. Alas a blank for me but P did well with 14 Chub to 4lbs on the float and 2 Barbel and 2 Chub on the feeder.

2 Barbel, 16 Chub

A family affair today with Grandad K, son A and Grandson J, fishing past the bend and again getting bites early and late they caught well with K recording 2 Barbel and 3 Chub,A 2 Barbel and 13 Chub and J once again showing the way with 8 Barbel to 8.01 and 3 Chub to 4.02, groundbait feeder and pellet again the best method.

12 Barbel, 13 Chub