Feedback & Reports

The river was low & clear and I fished the bottom pool just after the faster water feeding maggots & pellet on a regular basis. I took a Barbel of about 7 lb on the 1st cast a Chub of 6 lb on the second cast then lost a ton of tackle (there must be more lead down there than on a church roof!!). I kept the feed going in and ended the day with 10 barbel & 9 chub. The 1st 2 fish were the biggest of the day and a couple of barbel were in the 1 to 2 lb region. Nice to see as they must be breeding.

10 Barbel, 9 Chub

River low & several heavy showers (seem to make the fish move). No takes, cormorant fed all day! Otherwise lovely autumnal day, fished hard but clearly not hard enough!

We tried the lower section in the morning though it was difficult to find but no luck. We then moved to the upper section and fished at the top end for just three barbel which had clearly been caught before.

3 Barbel

Quiet day. Only one fish at 9lb. Water quite low and heavy rain made the banks very slippery.

1 Barbel

On a pretty wet day, our roving options were limited so we fishing under our brollies from the lower croys and had a reasonable catch under the circumstances. It looked like the much needed rain had arrived!

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 barbel of 11lbs caught from the upper section of the beat, broke my landing net returning the fish to the river from the high bank. Didn't fish on.

1 Barbel

Same conditions, but better results. 4 barbel taken in the woods, 5lbs 11ozs, 6lbs 7ozs, 8lbs 4ozs and 9lbs 6ozs. 1 barbel, 9lbs 8ozs and a chub of 5lbs 4ozs caught near the top of Legg Meadow.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water very low and clear made fishing difficult. Chub caught in shallow water around dusk. No sign of barbel despite trying several of the deeper swims in the cattle-grazed field. Made the mistake of carrying my tackle through the wood at the top end of the beat. The path through the wood was hazardous and after a long walk without finding any swims, I gave up. I still do not know if there are any fishable swims in the wooded section, but if there are they are a VERY long walk along trecherous terrain. This could be made clearer on the beat description.

3 Chub

Tried to fish by the pump, impossible due to heavy weed. Tried to fish down river but water too low.

A dark, misty and quite breezy day and cooler than of late, at 15 degrees. Very little fly apart from a few small afternoon olives and consequently, with little leaf litter and associated bugs, very few rising fish. Fished duo most of the day and did a bit of bugging as well (but to no avail). Two grayling and one trout (12") taken on small tung-head GRHE and PT nymphs and the rest of the fish, bar one, taken on HE emergers - the other on a small dark olive Duck's Dun. Most of the fish taken on the emergers were non-risers. Two grayling of 14" but the rest mainly around 10". Very hard fishing for sure. Bring on the rain and leaf fall to liven things up a bit!

3 Trout, 11 Grayling