Feedback & Reports

Four chub on Cheese paste. Following on from TS who fished Sugwas, I too have taken home other people's line nearly every week this year. It's not hard to put it in your bag.
Note to WUF, forgot to say last week that someone has broken the barbed wire in the middle field at Perryhill. The beat really does need a few stiles put in place before the land owner gets upset.

With the river being up and down all season so far it was great to get onto the river with the level just falling. Fished in the Meadow swims. The temperature had gone down overnight to 3c so conditions were not ideal. We used a selection of baits from pellet to luncheon meat and boilies. In all 3 chub and 1 barbel were caught. The chub were all between 2-3lbs. The barbel was caught by E and weighed in at 8lbs 12oz. P lost a couple of barbel with hook pulls. The last one seemed to be a monster. Never mind he will return for sure.
All of the babel came during the afternoon. The pike should be starting to feed now the river is fining down plus the chub should come out to play too.

River looked in good condition - 3 foot or so below recent levels when I have visisted, a little colour but not too bad. Lots of rubbish coming down. One small chub for our efforts.

Another tough session on Sugwas court, barbel not very obliging. Only one chub of around 2.5 pounds caught between two anglers, variety of baits tried including pellets, corn, maggots on maggot clip and meat. River was dropping and looked fantastic, couple of disco canoes(music blaring) went past to add to our misery although probably didn't affect the fish too much as they must have been elsewhere.

One bite, one chub on maggots but apart from excessive number of pheasants and a pleasant day. First time on beat, parking a problem as field not available due to ground conditions.

No catch.

Started fishing at 1pm at the Orchard car park swim but nothing. Moved down one swim to a swim with difficult access and caught 4 barbel of about 4-5lbs within the next hour. After that it went quiet. I moved up stream to the wooded section where it appears shallower but no more bites. Still a lovely day in a lovely setting.

Water was chilly and fairly high so the fishing was not easy but managed to catch 3 barbel and a good chub.

2 barbel, 8.5-9lbs and 6-7lbs. 3 chub, between 3 and 5.5lbs. Lovely beat but unfortunately in the swim I was fishing, a previous angler had discarded a lot of monofilament, rolled it up in a ball and left it in the hedge, not to mention a few hook lengths also with hooks and split shot still attached. Very dangerous for wildlife. Also a polystyrene cup. Quite why some people can't take their rubbish home with them is beyond me. A very enjoyable day other than that. Thanks WUF.

Water temperature was just 10 degees C and the water was coloured and pushing through at a fair rate, needed 4 oz to hold bottom. Tried the first peg by the fence in the morning witout a bite and then tried the peg with the pipes in the middle of the meadow with the same result later in the day, but hey thats fishing.