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Great afternoon fishing several swims lost 2 barbel into same snag - every fish in that swim made for it just had to hang on and hope several times. Biggest fish may well be a double but dont weigh any fish. Smallest maybe 4lb. Nice 4-5lb chub to finish. All barbel on krill pellet o.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Favourable conditions and river looking in fine fettle, good flow. Fish taken on feeder and float using a wide selection of baits, meat, boilies, various pellets and bread. We were looking forward to a productive evening session when a late afternoon down pour rendered the banks rather treacherous so decided to call it quits at 18:30. Enjoyable beat but be aware the parking for the top section is in very close proximity to a continuous bonfire and subject to heavy agricultural machinery.

5 Barbel, 16 Chub

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

There's not loads of swims here but enough to offer a bit of choice. After thoroughly examining both halves of the beat we succumbed to the slightly lazy option of fishing the two swims in the top half of the section next to where the cars are parked.
The benefits of being out in the fresh air were slightly defeated when a chap turned up with a tipper truck and proceeded add the remains of a bed and mattress to the smouldering rubbish pile behind us. These took an hour or so to properly ignite and burn through but fortunately it was a breezy day and the smoke was generally blown away rather than towards us.
The fishing was fairly steady with one rod catching all of the Barbel whilst the other chose to spend the afternoon on the lower section of the beat where plenty of good sized Chub were caught.

4 Barbel, 21 Chub

Successful last minute negotiations for use of a few spare hours saw me at UHC which had produced a few barbel recently. Only fished it once (unsuccessfully) before so I don't know the swims. Slightly overcast, mild not hot, quite clear but nice flow in the top section which was dead last time. Started at 1700 in
the top section on bomb and pellet and had 3 Chub in the firdt hour. Finished with 4 Chub in the last hour on gb feeder and meat inc the biggest at 4.12, all the rest a good size too. No signs of barbel. Loads of Chub showing and move have slayed it on the float. Had to leave at 2015 but a really lovely evening and worth a return.

10 Chub

Bleak and dace

50 Other

15 Chub

3 Barbel, 17 Chub

I've heard a lot of negative comments about upper hill court, some of the Swims are a bit tight but are fishable, only fished the upper section there are at least seven swims to go at. Fished a running rig and pellet one small Barbel and 5lb Chub.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub