Feedback & Reports

All fish from bottom end by steps. Action all through the day. Chub on floating crust.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Hot hot day and long walk from youth hostel car park. There are not many swims you can get down to at the moment and I'm not one who minds a bit of adventure but short of a small chainsaw and petrol strimmer there were not many options! We only fished one of the rods due to lack access but it produced a couple of nice sized barbel which this stretch is known for. There are, we found (following a canoe recon trip later in week) some swims beyond the pumping station but it is a trek!

2 Barbel

Surprisingly few flies emerging during the day - a few Danica, Yellow Mays and Medium Olives. Perhaps it was the north wind that put them down? At times it was quite strong!
Klink & Dink method was adopted with Dink (wtd PTN) catching most fish. Also a traditional team of wet flies worked well in late afternoon. Apart from the eleven trout/grayling a multitude of parr (trout and salmon) were caught.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

8 barbel and 4 chub on pellet. I took home the rubbish that was left in one peg.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub

Chub all around a couple of pound and barbel to 6lb.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

Roving along beat 1 fishing pellet on the swim feeder. 3 barbel and 4 chub in the morning, 1 barbel and 2 chub mid afternoon, 8 barbel and 6 chub early evening. River coloured and slightly up on summer levels. Fantastic opening day to the season. A long walk so travelled light, fantastic scenery along this stretch!

12 Barbel, 12 Chub

Started at the lower end of the stretch, but no fish caught. Moved to the Church Pool and a swim near to the top of the Island. Caught fish almost immediately in the new swims. All fish came to pellet used with feeders.
Top of the stretch very over grown and steep banks making it almost impossible to fish, besides that a very nice beat.

4 Barbel, 22 Chub

Following a previous rod's comments posted about the lack of access to the pools at Goodrich some good work has been done and access to Vanstone, The Corner Tree, Maddox, Windmill, The Dog Hole and Gabions is now very good. However, Cottage, The V, Stones and Upper & Lower Lines are completely unfishable because you can't get to them! Beat owners need to improve access to their water. The situation was the same when I fished Abernant a few weeks ago. Only 1 pool was easily accessible.
As well as all the good work done by the WUF and other organisations to improve the river, beat owners need to play their part as well.

WUF note - All pools except the Cottage and the V are now accessible following beat work carried earlier this week. There is more beat maintenance planned in the near future.

We had a lovely day on a very nice water. Conditions looked perfect. River not high and carrying a little bit of colour. Between us we had 4 barbel up to 7lb 12 oz and 15 chub ranging from very small to a biggest of 3.5lbs. All fish were taken on pellet feeder tactics.
There are a lot of chub on this stretch. Best times were early morning and late evening, especially for the chub.

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

Interesting day resulting in 5 barbel to 8lb 15oz and 8 chub, all caught on pellets. Initial impression is the fish are distributed throughout the stretch, as above results came from a number of different swims.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub