Feedback & Reports

15 lbs stale hen. Water still high and black with v.few fish remaining

1 Salmon

Cold day with very few fish showing. 2 nice grayling 14" and 12" one on gnat and one on nymph - both from Abernant Stream. Couple of other decent fish hooked and released early.

2 Grayling

Belatedly remembered the Forest of Dean streams were still open so sneaked in a trip on the last day to the Bideford brook. Very low and clear, most pools static. Did not see anything happening so started with the nearest I had to a rust klink. Got some interest from very wary trout but could not land any. Things went quiet till about 4.00pm, when in the last run a rise started. In the very shallow water I missed most but landed 2 at 8" on a small blue dun before all stopped again. Also met the owner on the way back for a pleasant chat including the spread of the wild boar!

2 Trout

River low and dropping and Barbel 4lbs to 8lbs caught very late in day. EP had 6 chub on trotted breadflake ranging from about 1lbs to 4.5lbs-a proper way to catch fish!!

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

An enjoyable days fishing; sadly no salmon today (except a kamikaze trout in the Ferry Pool) although with the water at about a foot on the gauge conditions felt good. It was nice to catch up with Roger Kempshall who was also fishing Gromain as we hadn't seen him since last year.

1 Trout

Two fish seen Mill pool and Rock pool. Trout and Grayling returned

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Second visit to this stretch in a month, another very good day, but in many ways a lot different to last visit, no small chub or dace . All the chub caught were large fish between 4 & 6lb and in fantastic condition. Once again the barbel were mostly small between 1lb and 3lb. I think the fact that I am fishing either a big balsa float or a Waggler with 3 or 4 maggots is more suited to catching these smaller barbel. I suspect if you fished a static bait you would catch some of the larger barbel. The other angler on the beat did have larger barbel on the feeder and pellet, But I prefer to fish the float and keep active.
Thank you again WUF

1 Trout, 17 Barbel, 9 Chub

4 Trout

5 grayling all about the 10" mark. Four on an olive spider fished as the top dropper in a team of three. The fifth was after switching to dry fly and came to a grey duster.

5 Grayling

Water levels dropping and becoming clearer. We had to try a number of different swims before finding the fish. We fished with swim feeders and used Luncheon Meat or Spicy Sausage Pellet on the hook.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub