Feedback & Reports

Very hot and sunny day at mhc, river painfully low and needing rain. First of all I would like to say what a great job has been done to accessing the lower end of the beat. It always use to be a bit of a battle getting to the castle end, not anymore! Struggled to find any fish willing to accepted a bait. Ended up finding some in the peg at the end of the concrete track. Had six barbel 4lb to 6lb, strangely enough all caught between 3pm and 6pm, by far the hottest part of the day. Earlier in the day I picked up a few chub from the top of the "Rope". All fish were caught on either float fished pellet or free lined pellet.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

Hot again and floating weed a bit of a problem but enjoyable fishing. Fish would probably have fed later in the evening if we could have stayed later.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Very hot and humid day fished pellet with feeder. 2 fish in 10 hours.

Hot and sunny and low water but the odd fish through the day. Nice and peaceful stretch but the ramp over the water pipe on the approach to the upper car park needs urgent attention. Any normal car/estate car will bottom out however slowly you negotiate it. The tarmac/gravel ramp is worn away and your car will scrape the metal casing protecting the pipe unless it has high ground clearance.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

A bit of a difficult day really. Caught a couple of barbel early and a couple more late on, in between it was hard work, despite moving swims and changing tactics. River low. There seems to be a larger amount of eels in the river this season, which I suppose is a good thing but it's hard to appreciate an eel when you have to unhook it!

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Highlight was a 9.12lbs barbel to my colleague SC, a new personal best so well done mate. It looked like it should have weighed a pound or so more and probably will in a few months. A good feeding spell from about 4pm - 7pm, during which time we caught most of the barbel and a couple of inconvenient eels. River low with a little bit of colour.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

20 barbel caught to 10lb 3oz and 14 chub using feeder/pellet tactics.

20 Barbel, 14 Chub

River conditions good. Some swimms hard to get to and are overgrown so be prepared cut out. 4 fish to 9lbs.

4 Barbel

13 barbel caught to 9lb 12oz and 12 chub using feeder/pellet tactics.

13 Barbel, 12 Chub

9 Barbel were caught ranging in size from 4 up to 8 1/2 lb. All were in good condition 1 was caught in the morning in Vanstones Pool the remainder were caught in the afternoon in the three cleared swims in and around Rope Pool and at the end of the concrete road. They were all caught on swim feeder rigs using pellet and boilies. There was heavy canoe activity until 4 pm but this did not appear to have an adverse effect. The fishing really switched late evening at about 8 pm with bites coming thick and fast. An absolutely brilliant days fishing.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub