Feedback & Reports

First time on river. Fished large feeder with crumbed boilie with large boilie on hair. Fished a dozen or more swims, some of them twice as I worked my way down and back up the river.

First fish by the hut within an hour then 2 more chub mid- afternoon near to other end of beat. Perfect weather. Dull and warm. Booking office very helpful and thank you.

3 Chub

3 taken on spinner very early on.

3 Trout

6lbs. From Redbrook beat.

1 Salmon

Arrived to find the river to be quite low and clear. Also a number of anglers on the far bank making swim selection a bit awkward. We did manage a barbel before retiring to the Greenman.

1 Barbel

Fly fishing with nymph, both fish released. Loved it.

2 Trout

1 eel. Despite river being quite low we managed a few nice barbel up to 8.5 lbs.
Found the cows were a bit of a problem when parking in the field as alternative car park not marked very well on map and we could not find it - hence one very dirty white van needing a wash the next day.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Missed several takes off the surface on daddy longlegs and para adams.

Only managed a couple of hours at this beat on my way home. Saw one or two fish move, but the river was very low and very quiet. No interest in anything I put their way, so this short visit ended blank.

Very nice fishery with lots of well made swims. Fishing was very good with a splendid backdrop of trees. Steady fishing throughout the day - pellets being the best bait, with Trigga boilies a close second. Would definitely fish this beat again.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 x coloured hen salmon, 30 inches; 1 x coloured cock grilse 26 inch, both on a size 10 Bann Shrimp and returned unharmed. Many thanks to owner Barry Pareskevas for the invitation for an evening's fishing. Thanks also for the recent trimming work which has made the banks much more accessible. I always enjoy an evening on Chainbridge, which is quite a magic place at this time of year, especially on such a warm evening as this. Once in the river, the caravan site and the road disappear from view and I always seem to see something surprising and interesting. This time it was a hot air balloon which hovered low as I returned the second fish; last time it was a grass snake swimming across the river. And invariably, at dusk, a big fish shows just once in the Chine - you could almost set your watch by it - and, just as invariably, I fail to persuade it to take. Lots of big trout were rising as the light faded. And owls were hooting in the trees overhead as I was taking the rod down and packing everything away in darkness.

2 Salmon