Feedback & Reports

Arrived early to a beautiful misty morning. River was up after the rain. Was expecting a good day but I think because of the previous night’s cold snap, this switched things off. My fellow angler read the water temp at 10 degrees. Started well by loosing two sets of tackle from two casts in the top swim then spent an hour in a different swim along most of the beat. Tried feeding them up but didn’t seems to work. Didn’t try the far end but did allot of walking. Spent 10 hours trying and had allot of knocks in the 4th swim from the top so shortened the hook link and managed 1 Chub which was about 2lb. Was hoping for more and stayed put in that swim for another few hours until sunset but nothing showed itself. Tried meat and various sized pellet and dumbbell on the feeder with ground bait and hemp.

1 Chub

Five barbel to 8-8 river rose in afternoon loads of crap coming down impossible to fish. Advise dont drive to river unless in 4 wd

5 Barbel

I'm afraid that I blanked. I had one bite all day - a good fish lost as I was reaching for my landing net. Conditions were challenging - river high and charging through again. 4 ounce lead was required and still moving. Wonderful wooded hillside in front of me - shame about the early rain. It was difficult to find a fishable swim - I assume because the water was quite high. I ended up going downstream from the north car parking area (where the caravan is) and walked a long way before I found one.

11 Barbel, 9 Chub

Nic and I arrived to a very swollen looking river which was on the rise during the session (circa 20-30cm) fishing was tough and dropping on to the fish was the key. Both fished ground bait feeders with paste wrapped boilies and I fish meat from time to time. The Chub didn't seem to be the usual stamp with the best being around 3.5lb or so, the best barbel 7-8lb with two small ones amongst the 6 caught.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very challenging fishing, river high and rising in the pouring rain, lots of debris in the chocolate coloured water. Persevered for Barbel in the slack water under the banks, but only had two bites between us on pellet/meat/boiler which produced two chub. My mate had some nice Dace and Roach on a maggot feeder though

2 Chub, 10 Other

River was well up , but took the roving approach managed to hook into a really nice barbel , the scales went 9lb 15oz
Really chuffed . Managed another at 6lb and later on in the day a cracking Chub of 6lb . All fell to meat .

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

The river did drop a bit over night but then throughout the day rose back up higher than the day before. We decided to bait and wait in a couple of swim to get the best out of them, managing 2 barbel for are efforts. Swim access and management is pretty poor still, banging in silly bits of timber as step barely in the ground doesn't give you much confidence walking down in slippy conditions. And a few older productive swims downstream have been left to grow over, not giving you many options.

2 Barbel

60 Grayling

Not the best conditions. River rising and charging through. Lots of debris and tree branches and trunks coming down. Then the wind and rain. Hey ho - it is November. Chub were small. The other 2 were roach. I met Stefan who was very helpful. Thanks Stefan Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

2 Chub, 2 Other