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Tough day. Managed a few hard fighting barbel in the afternoon, nothing massive. Mainline dumbel with grounbait and pellets. 3 chub also.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Had a great day, a couple of fish late morning then a quiet spell before the feeding spell in late afternoon through to dusk. Best Barbel just over 8 lbs with most around 6 lbs, also some nice Chub up to around 4.5 lbs

16 Barbel, 8 Chub

River up about 18”, coloured and pushing through so pretty good conditions but it was fairly hard going with all of the barbel and 7 of the chub falling to one rod plus one of us blanked. This is a nice venue and the fish are of a good stamp here but the banks are very steep and the walk is long to explore the whole fishery

4 Barbel, 11 Chub

Lovely stretch of river in great condition.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub

3 Chub

Great days fishing for all four of us,weather overcast, fished all day till last light

23 Barbel, 40 Chub

Only 2 anglers fished. 12 barbel, biggest exactly 9 pounds. 4 chub all on pellet

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

River 0.9m approx and brown, and dropping. Looked OK and started at a swim next to another angler who told me that these swims had produced a good number of barbel recently. Unfortunately not today! We both only caught one each and mine was only about 1lb ( nice to see though) and then nothing so we had to move. My next swim I know always holds barbel but again I struggled for the rest of the day with only one more barbel ( nice size approx. 9lb) and a chub . It did not help the sun shining down on all the river and straight in my face all morning . It was only when the clouds started coming over in the pm that I caught these fish but only over a very short period of time . Unfortunately I had to leave at 5.00pm and I know the fish often switch on here after 6.00pm.
Also the river was very brown and starting to speed up as it dropped increasing the boiling nature of the swims. This stretch is a pleasure to be on and even better in cloudy/wet weather , when the river is high( over 1 metre) and after 6.00pm!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Water was belting through so fishing close in 20 yards from the bank, i used a 4oz feeder filled with hinders barbell bomz groundbait and krill hookbait. Lovely stretch of river and plenty of fish present. I had 5 barbell and 2 chubb and lost a couple of barbell as well. Great stretch of river and will certainly be back

5 Barbel, 2 Chub