Feedback & Reports

6 and 1 for me 5 and 1 for my fishing partner all caught on pellet and paste....
A cracking days fishing M

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Heavy rain during night of 9th September. Water was unfishable

Second visit to this stretch, river was relatively clear but not too low so we were cautiously optimistic. A small Barbel second cast on pellet helped but that was all the action we had until after midday and a change to meat produced a few small Chub with a better fish about 3lb. From 3pm until 45 minutes from the end again no action before the best fish of the day an 8lb 14oz Barbel which went some way to help what had been a somewhat disappointing days fishing up to then!

That said this stretch is set in some really beautiful countryside so it is a pleasure to be there, however purely from a fishing point of view we will be giving a different stretch a go next year.

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

River slightly up 6-8 inches. All fish caught on dry fly, none taken.

10 Trout

No fish taken rising river.

Largest chub was just over 3lb and the largest barbel was 7lb 9oz. Very positive bites and in quick succession towards nightfall with little activity over lunch

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

9 x trout 6-10 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. The river was still very low and clear this morning as little rain has fallen in this catchment lately. However, it's coming now and cattle are already lying down in the fields under lowering clouds. Has anybody else noticed the apparently abandoned and overgrown orchard by the footpath on the way back to the car parking place? If I am not mistaken it mostly contains Blakeney Red pears, which used to be made into perry. However, the trees are tall and the fruit far beyond reach. My father, who reckoned he knew something about pruning, used to say: "Let a pear tree tower."

9 Trout

Having had a great day yesterday arrived at Courtfield with high hopes we all fished the meadow I managed a Chubb and a small jack pike. The others had no action. Disappointing return from a stretch that we have had good results from in the past.

1 Chub, 1 Pike

River looking perfect at Ross. Fish came from Watkins on Weirend fishery. Ross total for the year now 29, the best for a good few years.

1 Salmon

River looked perfect - about 2 foot up with a tinge but this made the broken water swims upstream difficult to access. I used a rope to get into one then sat out in the water. Caught a good barbel - possibly 9lb plus on meat casting across and lost another on double 8 mm pellet. Strange no chub. Mick fished nearer the start and in his 3rd swim caught another big barbel - again well over 8lb on meat and a 4lb chub. He cast to 3/4 as far bank shallowed up a bit.
Looks like a boundary where fish are fewer but good in terms of size. Fished feeders all day with pellets ,hemp and a bit of groundbait through the feeder. Travel light as walk to the end is long plus 1 stile, 1 gate and a really uncomfortable iron bridge over a tiny feeder stream. Croy swim looked like it had loads of potential but could not decide how to fish it - too many options.
Lovely quiet beat with the far bank covered in glorious woods in places. 3 mewing buzzards overhead most of the day. Saw one walker and a couple of canoeists.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub