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Overcast in the morning, sunny in the afternoon, stiff breeze most of the day which made float fishing awkward and only produced one chublet. We all fished the beach and a low summer level made the whole river easily accessible. 2 fished morning till tea and 2 lunch till 8 with a civilised pub lunch in the middle but this did disrupt the morning anglers.
One swim produced 3 of the barbel, the one above produced the other one (biggest 9.04 to Mr P on his antique cane rod and Mitchell 300 - he nearly became Caradoc pole vault champion) and all the fell to bomb and pellet right across. The rest of the beach was patchy with not many chub showing. Only one family on the beach and they stayed upstream out of the way.
I may figure out how to fish it in another few goes, but a lovely day nonetheless.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Caught a lovely tan in 26 degrees! Fish? Not so much….

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Today is the hottest day of the year and to hot for fishing

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very hot but fishing was good all fishtaken\on luncheon meat

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

Hot day only went for few hours in the evening

2 Chub

No salmon caught or seen. Fished with the fly, caught 2 trout from the run below the bridge.

2 Trout

2 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Day 2 of 2. A much brighter, sunny day. Three anglers fished the top end of the fishery for the morning but only 4 Chub on the float and 2 eels on ledger were caught, so when went back to the faster water at the bottom end of the fishery where the fish were not feeding in the main flow as before but were under the far bank bushes which is full of snags on the bottom, so we had the wade out and use heavy float tactics to get to them. Still a good day but hard work to hold the float at the far bank. We had 50 Chub 0.5lb - 4lb and 3 Barbel 5lb - 7lb on mainly float fished meat.

3 Barbel, 50 Chub

Day 1 of 2. Far end of the fishery in the shallow water. Overcast with a bit of drizzle and hardly any wind which was perfect for fishing. There was also quite a bit of rain the previous day adding some extra flow which helped spark the Barbel into feeding. We had around 30 Chub between three anglers, 0.5lb - 2.5lb on mainly meat and corn and some on pellet and 8 Barbel 5lb - 9.5lb on mainly pellet.

8 Barbel, 30 Chub