This stretch of the River Thames does not get much chance to prove its potential each year due to the boat traffic passing through Bray Lock, however, late evening fishing produces some of the best catches as the fish move into the area to feed over night.

The swims close to the car park are the most favoured as they have been producing some very good bags of chub with these ranging from “chublets” to fish of 4-5lb. These pegs also produce mixed bags of roach, dace and perch with fish to nearly 1lb.

TIP: When the river is in flood use a block end feeder and quiver tip fished across to the crown of the main flow, allowing the feeder to come towards you into the slack water, this can produce good bags of bream with fish from 4-7lb giving a bag weight of approximately 20-30lb.

If you fish late evenings during the summer months you can be rewarded by good bags of roach and dace from the lock cut up to the end of the island.