Feedback & Reports

2 Trout

Hard day on the river ,managed to winkle out some chub ,biggest would have gone well over the 4ib mark ,but was skinny
Loads of small dace ,chublets and bleak .
Should have fished the faster runs ,but being old makes the walk hard work !

8 Chub, 50 Other

Very few places to fish from because the banks are not managed. However, we did eventually find some decent fishing in the meadow. Barbel ranged from 2 to 8lbs and were caught on meat and pellets. Thankfully the lively cattle mentioned in recent catch reports are not currently in the meadow,

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Very low and clear, predominantly float fished with meat but couldn't get them to feed.

1 Chub

3 Barbel, 26 Chub

only fished this beat in the winter when everything is a bit wet and slippery- and a trip to the stones and back is a bit of a suicide mission...a bit of an easier scramble this time of year. Plenty of barbel feeding early morning - had 6 before 7am - all on 15mm pellet. when your arm needs a rest, stick on some meat and you get chub instead. more like a quarry than a river bed - with lots of square sharp edged boulders to snag or cut you off. Really disappointed to catch several fish dragging yards of line around with them...braided hooks lengths...and all with barbed hooks. if you're going to fishy these types of snaggy areas you need to think about line and rig choices. yes i lost half a dozen fish in the rocks - but i only left em with a 4 inch hooklength and a size 12 barbless hook - not yards of tackle.

14 Barbel, 20 Chub

One on and off ! Otherwise nothing doing, terribly low river.
Went home early to watch Lionesses!

4 Trout

One rainbow (returned) one perch. Both on black buzzer fished slowly on sinking line. 9pm curfew a bit frustrating- fish were close to surface in the sheltered bay on the S side next to the dam for about the last 45 mins and another hour would have been interesting! Missed a take to claret buzzer on a floating line under a dink.

1 Trout, 1 Other

Cooler than of late, cloudy, some showers and a consistent downstream breeze. Fished from lower limit up to the Cilieni confluence. Surprisingly sparse in terms of rising fish, particularly in the Quarry pool. Didn’t switch to dry flies until reaching the Junction pool where two or three trout were consistently rising on the far side. One trout on heavy nymph in fast water at top of Quarry and one off the top in Junction. Plenty of shade all the way up from heavily tree lined banks helps create a cooling effect on this beat.

2 Trout