Feedback & Reports

Fished same swim as last week, on this beat, but found fishing totally different. Fished from first light to 6 pm, bites were hard to come by. There was a lack of bites from the small chubb, caught good sized chubb to 5 lb on float with luncheon meat. The only barbel was a fish of 7 1/4 lb caught at 7 am on 10 mm pellet. River very low and needs a bit of a flush through. However an enjoyable day. Thanks W & UF.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Becoming a favourite venue , pleasure to be back there , just myself on for the day , level low … so fished the faster/ stretches …further up , 5 good chub alas no barbel , but the chub was good sport . The river needs rain …

5 Chub

Arrived midday with my young lad. First visit here since December, always a pleasure. Low and clear meant chub were order of the day. Tried upstream in fast water but strangely not a knock in a swim where I’ve always had chub action. Moved on after an hour to below island. Lowest I’ve ever seen it here. One canoe capsized with three people in it, debris and belongings everywhere, they managed to scramble to safety on the island. Had chub action from the start in new swim, all we’re big lumps and managed a nice 6lb barbel on corn. Bird life was epic. Super day. Can’t always rely on barbel showing up in these low water conditions. I am a chub fan, scale down and have some action. Hope to be back mid September , trotting caster when allowed. Brilliant day. Thanks WUF

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

Tough day. I x WBT CAUGHT on Klinkhammer late in evening. About 122 inches.

1 Trout

2 Trout

4 Trout

1st time on this stretch decided to fish the woods and tackle the climb round. Weather was a fair bit cooler than of late and the river painfully low. Started about 2pm and fishing my usual baits & tactics was expecting the ravenous chub to be crawling up the rod! Not to be the 1st fish I had was a barbel about two hrs later on corn bounced through the swim. Had a couple of chub one of which snagged me as I was answering the call of nature and took about 10mins to free after patiently waiting to release itself. Finished off around 7pm with a barbel just shy of 8lb when the bait again was twitched through the swim this also snagged me temporarily in a different area to where I’d been casting on the far side! When fishing here I’d strongly advise using drop off/breakaway leads and suitable tackle as all the stretches I’ve fished this season on the W&U this has been the worst for snags! Enjoyable day and would return here but unlikely to fish the steep wooded area in the wet!

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Only there a short time caught a barbel very quickly, early morning fishing.

1 Barbel

Only one fished. 28 chub 9 barbel. Had problems with a large pike attacking the fish killing sport for long periods.

9 Barbel, 28 Chub

We were 4 anglers fishing this beautiful venue, 3 off us feeder fished all day resulting in 2 Barbel and 20 chub, the 2 Barbel were in the 8 to 9 pound range and the Chub were generally small.
Our other angler alternated between feeder and float resulting in Chub to 3 pounds.
One caution here, although this is a beautiful section to fish several of the swims are extremely snaggy resulting in lost equipment almost every cast.

2 Barbel, 30 Chub, 4 Other