Feedback & Reports

Spent an afternoon teaching a friend how to fish and I think it's safe to say he is hooked, after he caught a very small but very exciting trout! Water was a good level, slightly murky, and apart from a brief bit of rain, decent weather.

1 Trout

Lovely day on well organised beat. Lots of good work done giving access to swims

5 Chub

No fish caught and no bites either but the conditions were lovely, the river wasn't too high and it wasn't too fast.

Ross feeder fished the new swim and caught barbel and chub. I float fished for the chub below the riffle and had them lined up before the river started to rise.

4 Barbel, 20 Chub

No fish caught but plenty of fish seen and running. River coloured by late pm

I had a chub 2lb at 0900 in the margins using sweetcorn/pellet. A 3lb common carp at 11.00am same bait. Both while it was raining alot. Then I had a 4lb wild carp at 14.30 bit dryer same bait all in the margins...beautiful fish no marks...all float fishing in margins...great lake will return!

1 Chub, 2 Other

Tried the deeper water off the lower croys in the morning, just a few Chub. Headed down to the bottom at 2pm for some madness and ran out of bait at 6.30 pm.

Another enjoyable day and my companion caught his first Barbel (“don’t they ever go” he said), he had a larger one near the end of the day and now has 6-14 as his PB.

5 Barbel, 32 Chub

Did not fish due to storms

Really struggled today. Biggest chub about 3lb and biggest barbel around 6lb. Hoards of small fish which attacked and stripped the bait immediately they hit the water with rod top banging constantly with small fish and minnows trying to remove even hard baits which I guess meant the bigger fish were not around. The usual moron of canoeists, at least I think that is the collective noun for a flotilla of canoes is ????. It would be too depressing to count them but during the day it must be 200 plus meaning you cannot fish a line out in the flow, As you have to reel in and your line would be in more than out.
Fishing near the island a no go area it was chaos. Also something to consider here is the cattle. The parking spot downstream is in a field and the cattle were all around my car. Whilst they were only inquisitive and definitely lovely looking animals I did have to keep shooing them away from my car in case they used it as a scratching post. They were also crashing around in the swim next to me after climbing down steep bank to feed on the lush vegetation.
Not one of my better wye experiences to be fair.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

It was nil