Feedback & Reports

Very bright conditions, fished in the field above parking.
5 Barbel to 8lb 2oz, 8 Chub to 4lb. All fish caught on the feeder various baits. Nice stretch stayed at the Portway Inn good value for money.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

Three fish caught on worm with popup to hold up.

3 Trout

River up and coloured following recent rain, lot of weed coming through making it difficult. Fish came throughout the day, all on pellet.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

River very coloured and running fast, fish came steadily all day.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

A great day, loads of weed coming down the river. Managed a 2lb chub and a mini barbel.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River up and coloured following recent rain and choice of swim limited as no access to Islands. Fished the top end where there were three swims, one of which was very productive. A heavy 5oz feeder was required today, and halibut pellet took the fish. We caught some good fish, with the biggest going 8lb, 8lb 7oz, and 8lb 10oz. 10 barbel and 2 chub to one rod and 2 barbel to the other. Weather was sunny and very warm. Less weed floating down than yesterday.

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

River was up and after a couple of hours trying for barbel. decided to try maggots in some slack water. Caught plenty of dace, a gudgeon which was nice and 2 chub.

2 Chub, 11 Other

River still high and coloured but dropping during the day. Three anglers fished hard all day for 5 small trout, but in the last hour managed three decent grayling to 1lb 8ozs, all taken on a large dry sedge.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

Only three of the rods ended up fishing. We started in Legg Meadow in the upstream part. Conditions looked great, good flow and a consistent colour. However, in the morning we managed just one fish each, two eels and one chub. The chub and the eels were both PBs (though as first time captures they would be!)
At lunchtime, I walked most of the beat with one of the other rods to assess if a move might be in order. With the flow and the seemingly increasing amount of floating weed, we were having a few issues holding bottom in the meadow so when I found the swim with the huge fallen tree in the woods, it looked to me that it might be much easier to position a bait there in the edge of flow, which would mean that most of your line in the water would then be in the eddy and therefore avoiding the weed. I moved whilst the others stuck it out a while in the meadow. Four or five casts in, the rod hopped round and I struck in to a fish that, once landed, took the scales round to 10lbs 8oz. Delighted would be an understatement. Based on this success, and very much at my invitation, one of the other rods then joined me in the same swim to see if he could break his barbel duck. Unfortunately, despite doing everything right, he just couldn't get a bite. I did get three more resulting in one chub of about 4 pounds and 2 lost barbel where the hook-length parted on rocks (I think). Legg Meadow didn't produce any further fish. Surprisingly, by 5pm all the bites dried up and despite fishing through to dusk we didn't see any further action in the woods.

This was the first of two days booked.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

The river was up and brown due to Thursday's heavy rain. Caught a 4.5lb chub downstream from the croy's, but the weed volume forced a move. Tried fishing deeper water at lunchtime. This produced five lovely conditioned barbel, three of them between 7lb and 8lb. The usual pellet baits scored again.