Feedback & Reports

A good days fishing, though much warmer and sunnier than forecast!

River was very low, and the lack of weed this year was obvious.

Barbel were hard to find, we managed two to 10lb 1oz. The chub were obliging as always, to 5lb 4oz. Majority of fish came on meat. This is a lovely beat, and would recommend - doubtless will fish better with a bit more colour and higher level.

2 Barbel, 37 Chub

5 Trout

3 Trout

Barbel caught on both feeder & float. This beat really has been opened up thanks to work done by Stephan, you now need to walk the whole beat to see swims not available before.

7 Barbel, 24 Chub

4 Trout

1 small rainbow soon as I got there, put it back and nothing else all day

1 Trout

Nothing caught ( my ability not lack of fish- saw a few nice ones)

Sunny, warm and very low water. Occasional fish showing but lack of flow made it impossible (for me) to present a fly well.
In the afternoon , despite the river being on its bones, a canoeist 'paddled' in front of me - scraping across rocks with his paddle hitting the river bed. Unbelievable really.
I asked him what he was thinking but needless to say he didn't respond particularly well.

Weather lovely, river still very low. Lots of eventful canoeing episodes, groundings and capsizes. All very entertaining. Fishing fairly slow to start. I challenged my self to catch on 4 methods, floating crust, trundled meat, stick float and feeder. I have tried this on a number of occasions but never succeeded on all four until today. Steve caught a PB Barbel so a fine day was had by all. Most fish came in the last two hours of light.

2 Barbel, 24 Chub

Dry fly. Several takes. No fish landed