Feedback & Reports

The river was on the rise all day! Both anglers managed to catch first cast and then sporadically throughout the day but the flow and weed got to us and had to fish in the slack because our feeders struggled to hold in the flow.the river must have risen 3 foot during our trip but still managed to catch in the margins on boillies and feeders.

11 Barbel

River was pushing through fast with lots of debrie including a whole tree at one point, the top croy was submerged. I found a swim about halfway up that had some slack water & fished pellet & feeder tactics, fish came steadily throughout the day, biggest barbel 9lb, lots of weed catching on line made presentation difficult. This is a very peaceful & beautiful place to spend the day the autumn sunshine catching the trees on the valley sides was stunning. Walk back up the hill to the car with a heavy rucksack proved I'm not as fit as I thought. Thanks WUF for making it possible for me spend some time in such a lovley part of the world ????

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

River looked good on arrival very scenic level and colour spot on. Swims very limited, only found three one of which needs work to use safely the two we picked were ok but slippery and wet after rain the previous day. Soon after starting had first of five barbel and two chubb, I had three, most fish about 5-6lb range. N had best fish at 7-6, and as day went on river rose 2 feet with lots of leaves and weed making holding bottom for more than 5mins impossible. The beat obviously holds a good head of barbel but needs more safe swims to fish with steps cut to flat fishing area to get the best from the venue. I would return in summer but with no more than two anglers .

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful place. River was very brown. Total blank for a complete novice!

10 Barbel

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Very wet and windy but persevered. I lost the first two barbel to cut offs, then managed to bank two barbel. Which has made my day after having a wash off the last time I was here. Hard work but well worth it. I packed up at 4pm due to the amount of weed coming through.

2 Barbel

a few good hours on a rising coloured river. french nymphed with a pair of tungsten nymphs. all grayling between 7-15 inches with .

13 Trout, 26 Grayling

Our first visit to this beat. We were unsure how far up the beat extends. Up past the wood?
AW decided that the gravel beach in the cattle field looked good for a wade and a spot of trotting, but cattle showed more interest than fish!
Despite flogging a number of swims in the bottom half of the beat from the orchard down we remained fishless, which was a real surprise and a disappointment as the beat seemed to promise much. It poured with rain most of the day, but river remained low and clear.

We expected the recent storms to have an effect on the river. The conditions looked great a couple of days before our arrival but the bad weather was on its way. We fished another day ticket stretch on Friday afternoon and struggled losing a barbel with only caught one chub on the day, which didn't fill us with much confidence for our visit to How Caple on Saturday!

Once we arrived at How Caple it looked perfect but we were really up against the weather with the wind, rain and obvious rising river. Slippy banks and several swims looked a little risky to fish. Stunning stretch of river though. We fished about 6 swims, I had a couple of small chub then a move to the lower section resulted in a typical hard fighting barbel of 8lb for my dad. We will certainly return to this stretch and have another go when the weather is more settled. Very good access, short walk to the river and plenty of swims to go at, but a long landing net handle is a must on some areas and if the river is lower, I think some swims might require some climbing to get down.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub