Feedback & Reports

Due to the heavy rain and low temperature I only fished the beat for about 90 minutes and inevitably "blanked". I will return!

Nil caught. River was high and the weather was miserable - packed up early!

Lost one decent fish in some fast water near the top of the beat, apart from this I saw one fish rise all day. Whenever the breeze got up there was a real cold edge to it and so it wasn't surprising that the fishing was so hard.

Unfortunately I didn't make it onto the river due to work commitments but would like to say how helpful my contact Ian Boney was. Thanks.

four good size chub and two barbel, lost a couple of barbel also. Bait used mainly pellet both on hook and in feeder.

A bit of a struggle for myself today, couldn't settle in the right swim, managed 1 barbel and 3 chub. Honours undoubtably go to Mr J Dixon of Farnham who managed 13 barbel to 8lbs, top fishing, sweetcorn the going bait.

Nil return.

Eventful opening day foray on the new Goodrich court beat. 3 well mended kelts brought to hand (Corner Tree, Gabions, Dog Hole) and a heavy fish lost in the Dog Hole after a couple of mins play...never saw it, but it was very powerful and would have been the mother of all kelts! Every chance it was a bottle of Pol Roger that slipped the hook. Doh! Missed a couple of other pulls. A fast sink tip and 1" willie gunn tube did the damage.

Fished right down the bottom in the fast shallow water for an early barbel on the feeder. Used a new 4.2m heavy feeder rod (200g) from Italian company Alcedo. Allowed you to fish above the flow and it worked. The fish took 15 minutes to sudue in the very fast flow but must have been 9lb of anyones money. Huge shoulders. Do they fight more in the cold water? My arms still aching. Lost another and caught a nice chub as well. Great day.

A pleasant day but unfortunately no fish caught.