Feedback & Reports

The above were all caught on pellets with the river rising. very long walk to the river but very worth it. Many thanks.

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

All fish on the feeder, river low and very clear, very long walk now as you can not access the beat from the top end.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

A sporadic days fishing with all the fish coming in a few short bursts. A very nice day out with your mates.
Love the sign in the carpark offing a taxi service down to the river for a fiver per car. Its a bit of a walk but take only what you need and off you trot, its not a race.

WUF note - We are still in negotiations about the current parking situation and hope to get this resolved very soon.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub

Nice beat but a longer walk than indicated in the guide.

20 Barbel, 3 Chub

First time on this length and we were quite impressed. A beautiful setting opposite Weir Gardens where the most appealing pegs were located. The only drawback being the long and seemingly unnessary walk to the riverbank. It was certainly hard work in the sunny conditions. Surely someone is just being awkward making anglers walk all the way round. Fortunately the fishing was much better than on the previous 2 days and fish were picked up steadily for most of the day except for 2 or 3 hours in the afternoon. In all we had 12 barbel and 6 chub to 8lb+ on a variety of pellet baits.

12 Barbel, 6 Chub

A difficult but ultimately rewarding first day of the season. The river was low and clear, but had a reasonable flow at the top end of the beat. Caught chub up to 4.5lb on 2 small elipse pellets glued to the hair with marine halibut groundbait in a medium cage feeder. Caught using my Hardy Marksman specimen feeder rod with 10lb mainline and 9lb hooklink to a size 12. Dad also caught a >3lb eel on a large piece of luncheon meat. Fished 4 swims all in front of the house and managed 6 barbel up to 9lb - all on 2 10ml elipse pellets glued to the hair. 1.75lb test curve Daiwa infinity specialist barbel rod, with 12lb straight through and size 10 hook. Hard work but a good day in the end.

6 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

Caught 1 small trout on red maggot feeder. Bloody freezing!

1 Trout

Weekend and season end fishing in the hope of last years weather. Not to be this year with water temperatures of 42.8f on the Saturday and 42.5f on the Sunday. Fishing the upper stretch I had a trout and a nice chub. We moved downstream to the slower water and late in the day I.S. caught two barbel 6lb 3oz and 8lb 10oz in quick succession.
Sunday was heading towards arctic conditions and we abandoned the trip after three hours.

River very low & clear could see the bottom half way across in many swims. Moved around but only had bites in two smims. 3 chub caught 3, 4 & 5lbs all on bread. Very enjoyable day & although it didn't help the fishing it was nice to see the sun.

3 Chub

Too cold to contemplate fishing.