Feedback & Reports

Last day of my trip today and opted to fish the most productive peg of the previous days roving.
Ended up with another 9 barbel

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

On my own for the last two days so fancied a bit of a roving day as the river was coming up again. Started at the top croy and ended up at the bottom meadow and caught barbel in every swim.
Super day with 10 barbel to show for it

10 Barbel, 4 Chub

Neil fished today in the first meadow and caught steadily through the day

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Nick fished on his own today caught well in the top field before he had to go home

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

greeted this morning with higher water this morning so our plans changed some what.
Nick caught of the lead in the top field where I caught in the first meadow.
Nick joined me later and demonstrated using the Bolo float in high water which unfortunately for him resulted in two big eels

4 Barbel, 6 Chub, 2 Other

Only day of the trip the river was low enough to float fish. Nick had loads of small chublets off the top croy . I found the big chub lower down on the float great fun at the time. Neil however fished the feeder in the first meadow.
we all caught well and a great day

5 Barbel, 15 Chub

First time on this beat and had a brilliant session. Fished from 5am till 11am. Had a few nice chub early on up to about 4lb. Then an hour later I had a very positive bite and struck into what I thought was a decent barbel at first as it tore off up stream stripping line. Then after a good old scrap I managed to pull him up to the surface for a look and it was in fact a big common carp. Never had a river carp before and Christ do they fight. Played him for about 45 mins on fairly light tackle. Heart was racing. Convinced he was going to snag me but managed to net him eventually despite getting very wet in the process including my boots. Gave him a few minutes to rest in the net and noticed he only had one eye. A proper old river warrior of 18lb. Over the moon.

Then not long after had a barbel of just over 8lb. And then a flurry of nice chub again before packing up. All fish caught on 12mm sticky krill dumbbells. Fished about 2/3rds of the way out. Used hemp and mixed pellet for ground bait. Normal feeder tactics.

Beautiful place to fish with many accessible swims. Fantastic stretch and will certainly be back.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Decent weather, river low, caught using pellet feeder, others were eels on meat. Parking was a bit tricky as there was a land rover already there. Great to see plenty of swims have been trimmed back, hopefully this will continue throughout the season as hope to return soon.

Would be good to see w&u private fishing signs up like next doors fishery. Thank you for the access.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

Really hot day again, just for once the forecasters predictions of sunny spells was accurate...... that’s if a 10 hour cloudless sky with the sun beating down constitutes a ‘spell’?
Fishing was good despite the weather and all but 2 of the fish came from the meadow field to meat and pellets. A couple of chub on the float but the rest on a straight lead. Nice stretch and plenty of places to access the river, think some of the previous comments on river access were a little over the top, it is a wild river not a commercial puddle so sometimes it takes a bit of an effort!
One thing to note WUF, the parking area designated on the maps and directions has now been coned and roped off due to some logging work going on. There is a couple of places to park but not the best on a single track road!

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Decided against fishing, thought it would be too hot and not fair on the fish (or me!!)