Feedback & Reports

Crystal clear water and bright sunshine made for difficult conditions with all fish caught during first and last hour.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Arrived at the beat early afternoon to a bright and warm day. Tried the top end of the beat but the bright sunshine wasn't doing us any favours. Moved down to the bottom end of the beat and fished pellet and bomb/feeder catapulting in freebies.
Biggest barbel was 9.14 with them getting bigger in succession picking off members of the shoal. A lovely beat with lots of buzzards and kingfisher activity.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Bait used was worms....

3 Trout

Fished the meadow stretch from 3 until 6, lost a good fish first cast then had nothing else from the swim. Moved to a swim in the woods for an hour at the end of the day had 1 barbel of about 3 pound to save a blank! Both swims fished with pellet and groundbait method.
Thanks WUF

1 Barbel

Mobile approach,covered a lot of water, failed to find any steady bite producing areas, fished 12 hours, canoes not too much of a problem

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Great day. All catch and release

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

Took home all 3 of the rainbow trout caught. Caught and released a crayfish.

3 Trout, 1 Other

Morning started well with early barbel to me. The sky cleared and got very hot fishing then very hard but when sun went down they came back on the feed: three more for me best around 71/2 and my friend had two more including best fish of the day at 8lb, we both fished pellet and feeder chub were all small about 3lb. Great fishery, very helpful river keeper but some repair work is needed to steps leading down to swims and new swims have not had steps cut which are needed on these steep banks for safe fishing especially when wet; we will be back.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

All fishes were let free. The biggest trout 1 pound

15 Trout

This is an attractive beat with good access when dry and always looks as if it should produce a lot of barbel. We did have a flurry of activity towards the end of the day but the fish were very localised and seemingly absent from a large stretch of the water.
5 medium sized barbel and 3 chub took a liking to our pellets after a long wait.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub