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Did not fish weather incredibly hot and sunny river very low fish welfare in mind so decided not to fish.

Two anglers fished today; given the weather and river conditions we decided to fish early and late. Started at 6.00am and left when the first canoes appeared at 10.00am, and then fished again from 5.30pm until around 9.00pm. This proved to be a sound tactical decision but it did mean that we had to walk over the hill and back twice. From previous feedback I expected lots of chub but a lack of barbel - thankfully this wasn't really the case; fishing in the fast water we caught almost as many barbel as chub spread over morning and evening sessions. The biggest was the last fish - we thought it might make double figures but it fell a few ounces short. As always, a pleasure to be by the river with good company.

6 Barbel, 10 Chub

Patchy day.

5 Barbel, 9 Chub

4 Barbel, 9 Chub

2nd day of two, chub everywhere along the stretch but no barbel at all, never gone 2 days without a single barbel before.

10 Chub

2nd day of my trip and very different to the previous day.
Fished same swim in the woods, first 5 casts yielded 4 barbel to 8lbs and a chub then no more barbel.
Chub continued until I left at midday.

4 Barbel, 23 Chub

Other fish was an Eel, was pellet fishing for barbel, seemed to be many many small chub attacking the baits, biggest chub went 4lb 7oz. River was slightly coloured but at normal level.

3 Chub, 1 Other

Fished the wooded section and was into chub straight away. Caught on all methods and any bait.
No sight of a barbel.

47 Chub

6 Chub

This is a beat which has consistently been good to us in recent years. River conditions looked ok, after carrying a tinge of colour the previous day the river had become clearer overnight and had dropped a fraction.
We settled on pegs in the woods where the river was at its quickest in the hope that this may offer the best chance of Barbel. This plan though did not really work out. There were Chub to be caught all day long but even they came in fits and starts rather than steadily. Barbel were almost completely absent from the picture though, only one small one was caught all day long.
Had a little rove around and tried other pegs but this only produced more Chub.
Slightly disappointing that we failed to catch Barbel in anything like the numbers of recent years but that’s fishing for you.
A lovely quiet stretch to fish though even if the walk up the hill does get the blood pumping a bit.

1 Barbel, 45 Chub