Feedback & Reports

Arrived Sunday evening to recce the beat,without the other anglers' van in the carpark or the farmer offering a lift it would have been difficult to know where to park as there is no WUF sign.By Tuesday the colour had largely gone and the flow had gone from the water compared to 36hrs previously.My two colleagues fished on the top bend and I was below in faster water,very little activity after a few hours on the feeder so when it got brighter in the afternoon we fished float for a few hours and caught trout dace and small chub almost every cast on maggot. All the action from the bigger fish was in the last couple of hours of daylight back on feeder and pellet. Ended up with 2 barbel 8lbs and 5lbs and 5 chub
around the 3lbs mark.Lovely piece of river with comfortable pegs and good access with the pegs marked at the top of the bank with a wooden post, would have fished better with more colour in the river and a less bright day.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub, 40 Other

Thanks Stan for the usual good advice and patience with obstinate old men (and for step cutting and offers of transport of heavy bags etc!) - a beautiful day.

10 Barbel, 3 Chub

River looked good, but we did not catch. More practice!

Just the one pike 10lb 2oz. No luck with barbel or chub. We both felt description of lower beat was poor.

1 Pike

Three barbel, 7lb 8oz,, 5lb 10z and 4lb 8oz. Two chub 5lb 1oz and 4lb from nice swim in middle of stretch. Thanks Colin for a nice chat. Lost another nice barbel on last cast.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Easy on line booking. Good directions to beat however there is NO WUF sign in the parking area. Where the directions say there is a sharp right hand bend this road goes to Eaton Bishop you take the road that says NO THROUGH ROAD then park through the gate on the hardstanding next to a building, after about 10 yards. The farmers mobile number is on a board where you park and its well worth the fiver it is a long walk.

River in good condition, slow fishing though. I caught the chub on chilli flavour L/meat opposite the weir garden on the wall peg. I caught the barbel in the faster water further up the beat on halibut pellet and feeder.

Fantastic location will definitely be back. Thanks WUF.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub, 20 Other

Tried floating worm and spinner with no luck.

Caught two trout, one with silver mepps no2 and the other ledgering with a floating worm. Was a hard day and after speaking to the locals we were told we were not in the right place (first time there). Will give it another go sometime, really nice setting and well kept.

2 Trout

River on 1 foot 4 and dropping. No salmon seen or caught but caught two nice trout - one was 2 pounds and the other around the pound mark. Both fish returned.

2 Trout

Conditions looked good but not action or sight of Salmon.
Plenty of rising fish so upstream nymph & wet fly was fun for hour or so. Interestingly trout in excellent condition were the main action - clearly no one has told them the season is over.
Excellent clearance of fallen trees many thanks to WUF, this is now a full beat again rather than a lower section and a jungle expedition. A good day.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling