Feedback & Reports

Very hot and humid day fished pellet with feeder. 2 fish in 10 hours.

Hot and sunny and low water but the odd fish through the day. Nice and peaceful stretch but the ramp over the water pipe on the approach to the upper car park needs urgent attention. Any normal car/estate car will bottom out however slowly you negotiate it. The tarmac/gravel ramp is worn away and your car will scrape the metal casing protecting the pipe unless it has high ground clearance.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

A bit of a difficult day really. Caught a couple of barbel early and a couple more late on, in between it was hard work, despite moving swims and changing tactics. River low. There seems to be a larger amount of eels in the river this season, which I suppose is a good thing but it's hard to appreciate an eel when you have to unhook it!

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Highlight was a 9.12lbs barbel to my colleague SC, a new personal best so well done mate. It looked like it should have weighed a pound or so more and probably will in a few months. A good feeding spell from about 4pm - 7pm, during which time we caught most of the barbel and a couple of inconvenient eels. River low with a little bit of colour.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

20 barbel caught to 10lb 3oz and 14 chub using feeder/pellet tactics.

20 Barbel, 14 Chub

River conditions good. Some swimms hard to get to and are overgrown so be prepared cut out. 4 fish to 9lbs.

4 Barbel

13 barbel caught to 9lb 12oz and 12 chub using feeder/pellet tactics.

13 Barbel, 12 Chub

9 Barbel were caught ranging in size from 4 up to 8 1/2 lb. All were in good condition 1 was caught in the morning in Vanstones Pool the remainder were caught in the afternoon in the three cleared swims in and around Rope Pool and at the end of the concrete road. They were all caught on swim feeder rigs using pellet and boilies. There was heavy canoe activity until 4 pm but this did not appear to have an adverse effect. The fishing really switched late evening at about 8 pm with bites coming thick and fast. An absolutely brilliant days fishing.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

Found getting to the swims a bit tricky because of the 5ft high stingers and undergrowth but once we had beaten our way through to the river, fishing wasn't to much of a problem. The river was in good order apart from a slight algae bloom which put some colour in but we found it didn't affect the fishing too much. We enjoyed some good sport with both chub and barbel taking our pellet feeder tactics fairly regularly and over the course of the weekend we managed 9 barbel to roughly 9lbs and 6 chub to 5lbs plus.
All in all a great weekend and hope to get back as soon as possible.

9 Barbel, 6 Chub

River Ht .42m Fished the last two pegs at the far end of the beat. Caught 3 Barbel between 6 and 8lb and 3 Chub all between 2 1/2 to 3lb.
Barbel caught on sweetcorn and Chub on halibut pellet. All caught on ledger tatics fished to the nearside swim of the river.
I appreciate the Foundations policy of keeping rivers in a natural state but walked the full stretch of the river and realistically found approx 4 fishable pegs!
I'm not as young as I used to be and high slippery banks with access difficulties can lead to accidents. Even the game lads would have difficulty accessing this beat. A balance does need to prevail between access and enviromental quality.
On the positive great days fishing in fantastic surroundings.

WUF note - This beat was walked by WUF staff on 2nd July and there are 7 accessible swims along it's length with the option for anglers to cut their own wilder swims should they so wish.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub