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What a lovely stretch to fish and with such care taken to cut all bank side vegetation making fishing this stretch a joy. Weather conditions were very hot and as expected river levels low. Lots of chub shoals could be seen throughout the day and with better conditions we could have easily caught more. Fish were mainly caught early morning or towards dusk when light levels were better. Caught on float and ledger with luncheon meat coming out on top followed by bollie.
Will def be returning later in the season.

15 Chub

Very much in flood, really strong wind etc so we tried for an hour or so and then left.
Also - track to the hut has changed from previous trips and now runs along the bank, it’s really narrow in places and in bad weather will be treacherous (like today).

3 Decent Barbel (5lb14oz, 6lb 1oz and 7lb 8oz) and one around a pound. All the Chub were very decent in the 3lb - 5lb class, and a Pike of around 7lb caught on a Pellet.
Lovely day to be on the bank but fishing was pretty slow with a Barbel first cast of the day and one last cast of the day and the others spaced pretty evenly throughout.
A good Salmon was crashing about in one of the pools, celebrating the end of the Salmon fishing season no doubt?

4 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Pike

5 Chub

Lovely stretch, great access to swims.

All fish taken on either 8mm pellet or 14mm dumbbells with feeder and pellet loose feed

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

Our first time on this lovely beat and we will return. On a cold and frosty start to the day we walked the beat and found plenty of swims to choose from and decided on a couple 100 yards downstream of the hut. Glynn the gillie came along an hour or so after we had started fishing and informed us that these were probably not the most productive pegs at this time of year but we stuck it out and although no Barbel we managed 12 chub between us, the smallest around 3lb with the majority 4lb and above. We were kept company all day by two Kingfishers darting up and down all day, egrets, kites and buzzards. We were given advice by a friendly walker / angler on where to fish this beat next time so will take this on board.

12 Chub

Good access and great selection of pegs to fish.Best beat I've been on. Seemingly good height and colour.Overcast and mild.....what possibly could go wrong. Had the wrong bit of meat at the end ....me!!!! Sreams fish ...for a competent angler!!! Did foul hook an inch and a half minnow..does that count??? Fishing equipment for sale ....rods barely bent!!! DEVASTATED!!!!!

Hard day .with a high river and lots of debris coming down.however a lovely looking beat that we will try again next year

30 Chub

8 Chub

River in better condition than expected, colour was good and flow too despite it being lower that normal.
Best Barbel was 8lb.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub