Feedback & Reports

Nice beat lots of accessible areas, eventually found the barbel in the fast water, all in superb condition all caught on halibut pellet wrapped in paste.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fishing slow on Tuesday but caught both barbel and chub on Wednesday in overcast conditions.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished just below toll bridge and caught 4lb chub on spinner.

All fish from bottom end by steps. Action all through the day. Chub on floating crust.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Hot hot day and long walk from youth hostel car park. There are not many swims you can get down to at the moment and I'm not one who minds a bit of adventure but short of a small chainsaw and petrol strimmer there were not many options! We only fished one of the rods due to lack access but it produced a couple of nice sized barbel which this stretch is known for. There are, we found (following a canoe recon trip later in week) some swims beyond the pumping station but it is a trek!

2 Barbel

Surprisingly few flies emerging during the day - a few Danica, Yellow Mays and Medium Olives. Perhaps it was the north wind that put them down? At times it was quite strong!
Klink & Dink method was adopted with Dink (wtd PTN) catching most fish. Also a traditional team of wet flies worked well in late afternoon. Apart from the eleven trout/grayling a multitude of parr (trout and salmon) were caught.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

8 barbel and 4 chub on pellet. I took home the rubbish that was left in one peg.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub

Chub all around a couple of pound and barbel to 6lb.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

Roving along beat 1 fishing pellet on the swim feeder. 3 barbel and 4 chub in the morning, 1 barbel and 2 chub mid afternoon, 8 barbel and 6 chub early evening. River coloured and slightly up on summer levels. Fantastic opening day to the season. A long walk so travelled light, fantastic scenery along this stretch!

12 Barbel, 12 Chub

Started at the lower end of the stretch, but no fish caught. Moved to the Church Pool and a swim near to the top of the Island. Caught fish almost immediately in the new swims. All fish came to pellet used with feeders.
Top of the stretch very over grown and steep banks making it almost impossible to fish, besides that a very nice beat.

4 Barbel, 22 Chub