Feedback & Reports

12 barbel and 1 chub. Feeder fished sweetcorn mid river, bridge swim nice fishery. Needs working parties for opening up more swims, only 2 swims near car park area then a long walk to anything approaching a swim. Recommend visit to the gym before fishing if unable to drive down to river. Bailiff called it cardiac hill . Second access point not marked and seriously steep down to river.

10 WBT landed and released, all on duo with one taking the dry (elk hair caddis) and the remainder all grabbing the nymph. If we were remotely competent fly anglers we could have probably doubled our tally. A wonderful beat with a tremendous variety of lies from deep slow pools to tiny streamy riffles and stoppers. Loved every minute, even during the deluge experienced in the early afternoon.

A slow day on a river that had a tinge of colour and some pace. In total 4 Barbel, 2 Chub and 2 Eels all taken from the top 2 pegs. All the barbel came before 12 o clock on pellets and the Chub and eels came a little later on meat. No more bites from 1pm till when I left at 3pm. Directions were fine and parking was close to the river - all the pegs are well presented and relatively easy to access. I hope to return again.

We fished beat R48 in the early afternoon for about a quarter mile upstream and downstream from the mid point bridge and didn't see a sausage. No fish, no bites and no rises. This is a challenging stream to fish with significant growth to the sides and overhead making casting very difficult. There is little doubt that the fish will see you before you see them and this, together with our poor timing, was probably the cause of our bad day.

Lovely stretch. Caught 1 WBT on dry fly. I was using a Tenkara rod. No real problems wwith trees. Be careful wading after the Old tree bridge as water is very deep.

A lovely day on the river. First time on a new stretch which is a brilliant stretch of river. Both rods caught barbel and chub and we will deinately be back for another session. Thanks WUF!

Very small trout only - nothing that could be kept, on pheasant tail nymph.

9 barbel and 8 chub to 7lb and 4lb respectively with the river now low and clear. Fish caught from a variety of swims alomg the beat.

River running quite high and fast and carrying some colour, it was very windy so no fish rising, we caught one small wbt and one fingerling grayling on nymphs.

We chose two swims on the left bank where the fast water met with back eddys. J A had an early 2lb chub and 1lb plus eel on meat and after lunch A L had a 6lb 12oz Barbel and two 3lb plus chub on single elipse pellet.