Dorset Stour

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:... Blackwater
Date:... 16/06/04
Time fished:... 04:45hrs - 06:45hrs
Weather conditions:...no wind and warm.
Water conditions:... very low and clear, lots of weed
Air temperature... warm
Water Temperature:... warm
Bait:... boilies and paste
Method:...small pva mesh bag filled with pellet
Results:... bugger all
Comments & remarks:... not really bothered about catching, just wanted to get out on opening morning for a few hours before work.

Bloody lovely it was too.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:... Blackwater
Date:... 20/06/04
Time fished:... 19:30hrs - 00:00hrs
Weather conditions:...breezy, chilly when the sun set.
Water conditions:... very low and clear, lots of weed
Air temperature... not taken
Water Temperature:... not taken
Bait:... 14mm halibut
Method:...small pva mesh bag filled with pellet
Results:... one bream, 8lb
Comments & remarks:... it got a bit cold and damp when the sun went down.
The river looked quite lifeless.
Nobody else fishing, maybe they know something I don't.......

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:... Bottom of beat 3
Date:... 22/06/04
Time fished:... 19:00hrs - 22:00hrs
Weather conditions:...my god, did it piss with rain and windy.
Water conditions:... still low and clear with lots of weed, plus the added attraction of wind blown leaves everywhere.
Air temperature... not taken
Water Temperature:... not taken
Bait:... casters
Method:...feeder fished caster and hemp, with 4 casters on a 10 hook
Results:... gudgeon, bloody loads of 'em
Comments & remarks... went for a look this morning and found some swims that I haven't seen before.
Just an exploratory tonight, but I think these will get a concerted effort from me in the coming months.

 

[Tony Carter 2]

Section of Fishery or river stretch: beat 2 Date:... 20/06/04
Time fished:7.00 - 2.30
Weather conditions: intermittent rain and sunshine
Air temperature... not taken
Water Temperature:... not taken
Bait:... hemp & casters
Method:...feeder fished caster and hemp,
Results:.lost one big barbel i could see it a foot under the surface snagged on some weed and a snag eventually breaking the hooklink
Comments & remarks: first session of the season - disappointing to loose a fish but still at least i know they are their! Rik - you probably know more about throop than i do but i fished it a lot last year - there are some nice swims below the new weir and its not really all that busy in the first 2 months of the season once the opening day rush is over!

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:... Beat 2, Nettlebeds
Date:... 29/06/04
Time fished:... 17:00hrs - 21:00hrs
Weather conditions:... very bright, very warm.
Water conditions:... still very low and clear.
Air temperature... not taken
Water Temperature:... not taken
Bait:... double 10mm Source boilies wrapped in Source paste
Method:...small pva mesh bag filled with boilies and 8mm halibuts, fished on longish flouro hooklink
Results:... chub, chub, chub, chub, chub bloody chub. All about 3 or 4lb.
Comments & remarks:... gutty buggers


Cheers Tony, I'll take a scout up that end of the beat soon.
Going to walk beat 2 this week and look for decent spots.
May take a wander further up to Parley as well.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:Beat 2, School Bridge
Date: 10/08/04
Time fished: 16:00 - 20:00
Weather conditions: Very hot, bright and sunny
Water conditions: very low, very clear, very weedy
Air temperature: bloody hot
Water Temperature: warm
Bait: halibut pellet
Method:loose feed 8mm halibuts and a hair rigged 14mm
Results:1 x chub, 5lb 01oz
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Bloody spooky, had to back lead 3 feet up from my lead so the fish didn't feel the line.
Used Krystonite, they couldn't see it, but they seemed to glide over the swim, feel the line and then move back under the weed.
Put the backlead on and they seemed much more at ease.
2 mins after casting in with the back lead, I had the chub.
Mission accomplished, pack up and round the chippy.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:Bottom of beat 3
Date:15/10/04
Time fished:3pm to 7pm
Weather conditions:sunny with clouds
Water conditions:up and coloured with loads of crap coming thru
Air temperature:cold
Water Temperature:not as cold
Bait:2x10mm source boilies, wrapped in source paste
Methodva bag of halibuts soaked in source liquid
Results:barbel 9-12, bream 8lb
Brief description of the session & remarks:
first trip for the barbel after the swims I found back in the summer.
Pleasant result, I'll be back.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch: beat 2
Date: 21/10/04
Time fished: 14.30 to 19.00
Weather conditions: very windy, sunny with occasional cloud and showers
Water conditions: up and rising
Air temperature: dunno
Water Temperature: dunno
Bait: The Source paste
Method: feeder fished hemp and caster with paste on the hook, 6lb mainline with 5lb hitech hooklink and a size 12 Mustad hook.
Results: 2 x chub, 1st at 5-09 and the 2nd at 6-10 (a new PB)
Brief description of the session & remarks:
started with caster on the hook, both real and fake Enterprise, but kept getting whacked by the silver fish, managed to hook a few dace and roach, so decide to change to paste as I know they like the Source because I keep getting the chub hit my baits whilst barbelling.

First chub was a bit of a tentative bite, but the bigger one just hit it and went.

Well chuffed, until I got back to my car and some little retarded scum had put my windows through.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch: Beat 3, pipe bridge
Date: 05/11/04
Time fished: 16:00 to 22:00
Weather conditions: cold and clear
Water conditions: still coloured, but level has dropped massively
Air temperature: brrrrrr
Water Temperature: last night I realised I need a new battery for my thermometer
Bait: Source paste
Method: 3mm halibuts in a blockend with short hooklink
Results: 8 x bream, biggest 9-02
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Bloody bonfire night.
Whooooooooosh...... bang... sparkle.
Suprised to get the bream with the water temp quite cold (to the touch)
No touches at all on the sleeper rod down the edge.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:Beat 3
Date:08/11/05
Time fished: didn't fish, just looked
Weather conditions:bluistery
Water conditions: very high and very coloured
Air temperature:10
Water Temperature:??
Bait:
Method:
Results:
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Thought I'd give an update on the condition of the river as it's a destination for many travelling anglers.

Lower beat 2 and beat 3 are very high and coloured, but about 1 foot below bank level.
With no more rain predicted this week, then it should hopefully be sock on for Friday/Saturday.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:beat 3
Date:11/11/05
Time fished:17:00 - 20:00
Weather conditions: wind and rain
Water conditions: up and coloured
Air temperature:
Water Temperature:
Bait:10mm source wrapped in paste
Method:
Results:1 x bream (8lb) 1 x barbel (6lb)
Brief description of the session & remarks:
lost something same size as well, hook pull about 3 seconds in.
It's had a good flush, but it's still up and coloured.

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch: beat 3
Date: 14/11/05
Time fished: 12.00 to 16.30
Weather conditions: bright and sunny
Water conditions: coloured, but height has dropped
Air temperature: brrrrrrrrr......
Water Temperature:
Bait: source wrapped in paste/pellet
Method:
Results: another bloody bream on pellet, nowt else, too bright really, but had to be off early so couldn't fish into dark....
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Pretty clean, most of the crap has flushed through, just got to try and find the buggers now......

 

[Big Rik]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:Beat 2 and 3
Date:04/12/05

Weather conditions: bright, sunny and windy

Brief description of the session & remarks:

Haven't been fishing, but it's over the banks, across the fields and totally unfishable.
I'll report again when it's back within it's banks.

 

[Mark Wintle]

Section of Fishery or river stretch: Wimborne; Julians Bridge
Date:11/3/2006
Time fished:7:00am
Weather conditions:chilly
Water conditions:visibility 6", brownish, improving, level is 0.4 metres above winter level, dropping steadiliy
Air temperature:3 degrees
Water Temperature:
Bait:
Method:
Results:
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Conditions check for anyone considering fishing the Stour last week end of season; will update later.

 

[Mark Wintle]

Section of Fishery or river stretch:Throop Beat 2
Date:16/6/06
Time fished:Evening
Weather conditions:Hot, bright
Water conditions:Slight tinge from algae fair flow
Air temperature:20 C
Water Temperature:-
Baitellet
Method: Trent Trotter over weed
Results:1 Chub 5-10
Brief description of the session & remarks:
Very busy, eventually found a spot to fish with the fish in it. Most getting eels, odd chub also heard of a carp and a barbel. Fish was spawned out, should have been over 6lbs (24" long). Needs another three weeks to settle down.