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Nice beat but a longer walk than indicated in the guide.

20 Barbel, 3 Chub

First time on this length and we were quite impressed. A beautiful setting opposite Weir Gardens where the most appealing pegs were located. The only drawback being the long and seemingly unnessary walk to the riverbank. It was certainly hard work in the sunny conditions. Surely someone is just being awkward making anglers walk all the way round. Fortunately the fishing was much better than on the previous 2 days and fish were picked up steadily for most of the day except for 2 or 3 hours in the afternoon. In all we had 12 barbel and 6 chub to 8lb+ on a variety of pellet baits.

12 Barbel, 6 Chub

A difficult but ultimately rewarding first day of the season. The river was low and clear, but had a reasonable flow at the top end of the beat. Caught chub up to 4.5lb on 2 small elipse pellets glued to the hair with marine halibut groundbait in a medium cage feeder. Caught using my Hardy Marksman specimen feeder rod with 10lb mainline and 9lb hooklink to a size 12. Dad also caught a >3lb eel on a large piece of luncheon meat. Fished 4 swims all in front of the house and managed 6 barbel up to 9lb - all on 2 10ml elipse pellets glued to the hair. 1.75lb test curve Daiwa infinity specialist barbel rod, with 12lb straight through and size 10 hook. Hard work but a good day in the end.

6 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

Caught 1 small trout on red maggot feeder. Bloody freezing!

1 Trout

Weekend and season end fishing in the hope of last years weather. Not to be this year with water temperatures of 42.8f on the Saturday and 42.5f on the Sunday. Fishing the upper stretch I had a trout and a nice chub. We moved downstream to the slower water and late in the day I.S. caught two barbel 6lb 3oz and 8lb 10oz in quick succession.
Sunday was heading towards arctic conditions and we abandoned the trip after three hours.

River very low & clear could see the bottom half way across in many swims. Moved around but only had bites in two smims. 3 chub caught 3, 4 & 5lbs all on bread. Very enjoyable day & although it didn't help the fishing it was nice to see the sun.

3 Chub

Too cold to contemplate fishing.

3 rods pike fished all likely looking pike swims all morning till 1pm. Tried a selection of static deadbaits and sink and draw with only a 14lb fish to show which took float ledgered trout. Will try another stretch looking for Wye croc!

Nice beat last mild day before turning cold. A mixed bag small trout, grayling, dace and chub trotting with maggots and bread.

River still on the drop after recent floods. Arrived on a bitterly cold morning and struggled all day to get a bait presented well with the amount of debris flowing through - no fish on either rods all day. Disappointed after making the long walk there and back for no return.