Feedback & Reports

A productive days fishing in a picturesque location.
On first reconnoitring the beat, the first peg you come to (fishing hut) was clearly the spot for local dogs to enjoy their daily swim in addition to their constitutional walk. It was a little surprising when later the dog owners themselves jumped in! Canoes were launched throughout the day.
We fished the wooded area. Its worth noting that at present, the path at the near end of the wood is impassable. You have to walk to the far end of the wood, then walk back along the bank to get access to the natural swims available. Its a long walk up and down a hill!
Lastly, the 2 clear pegs in the wood were full of fish. But, they were both very snaggy. I don't see any other reports of this. Possibly somethings moved in and lodged there recently.

10 Chub

Arrived early and fished the hut, raining most of the morning, one small chub and an eel on corn, lost several larger fish, two or three salmon were leaping all morning which was great to see, one of which was a substantial fish. Packed up around 11am but returned to the same swim at 6pm, the fish had definitely switched on, 4 very nice chub to 5lb 8oz and a barbel of 6lb on the last cast of the day, several other barbel hooked but lost. All the evening fish taken on meat.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 2 Other

A difficult day all in all, bites were extremely slow coming throughout the day.
The Barbel taken fell to Sweet Corn and Double 10mm Halibut, the fish were about the 6-7lb stamp.
All the chub fell to meat and corn. The "other" were 3 Eels of considerable size and one Dace.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub, 4 Other

R L 46 chub 2 barbel. T H 21 chub 2 barbel.

4 Barbel, 67 Chub, 1 Other

Having caught 40 Chub the day before there were still plenty feeding...only a couple of Barbel but they were both good fish in the 6 to 7lb bracket...We left early for the long trek home and catch the last hour of the cricket on the radio which was one of our better moves!!

2 Barbel, 24 Chub

There were anglers fishing on the opposite bank in the area of the fishing hut. We decided therefore to head further downstream and take a look at the pegs in the woods.
These carried a little more pace than those upstream and we decided to settle there.
We fished from early afternoon until around 8pm and had bites steadily throughout this time. There are lots of Chub present and we each had around 25 of these in the 3lb to 5lb bracket. We also caught 8 good sized Barbel which were from around 6lb to 8lb+. All caught on pellet and feeder tactics.
A thoroughly enjoyable session.

8 Barbel, 50 Chub

One Eel in the top field before breakfast,(Nourishment needed for two old fellas to tackle the yomp)!! Although the
bottom meadow looked in superb nick fish were hard to find. Managed to locate some fish in the wooded area.
Eel and Barbel to meat, one Barbel around 6lb. the other 9lb. 2oz.Good quality Chub, nine on meat four on flake.

2 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

10 Chub

Really nice beat. Started on the fishing hut swim at 5am. Tried pellet/feeder and stick float. Had no bites by 11am so moved into the wooded area. Bit of a trek up the hill with all my tackle but well worth it. Was intending to try different swims out in that area but started catching regularly from first swim so stayed there. Fished the furthest swim into the woods (would be the first swim you come too if you could access it from the other side) which is just where it gets deep after all the fast water. Could have had a chub a cast but just didn’t strike on the smaller bites and tried to wait it out for barbel. Managed to get 4 barbel and lost a couple to hook pulls. The chub are a really nice size with most being over 4 pound. Caught a few of the chub on the drop as they grabbed the bait as soon as the feeder hid the water. A very lovely beat and will definitely be back. Would try and travel a bit lighter next time though so can five around. Plenty of great looking swims, bends and features to fish.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub