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Spectacular beat, Bright sunny day, low river, hard fishing until the evening but rewarded with some nice fish

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel

Disappointing day on a stretch I know well. Think the fact that the same 3 or 4 swims are fished almost daily has had an impact. To fish the lower part apart from the rope pool and another nearby requires jungle warfare.
Lost a barbel on floatfished corn then had a couple of chub.
Strange no dace about to the corn- had lots at nearby kerne bridge the evening before. Perhaps they've migrated out.

2 Chub

We managed 4 barbel between us and lost a good chub to a snag mid river. The weather was not on our side 27 degrees the fish didn’t want to know, had 1 barbel first cast and then nothing till late afternoon. The beat has good parking right next to the river, but there maybe just under 1 mile of river double bank fishing available that you can walk and look at but the truth is you can only access about 600 yards due to no how over grown the rest of the river is and it’s a shame as we walked it and you can see some really good looking spots and swims,

4 Barbel

Started fishing at 1pm in the blazing sun, having spent the morning at Strangford, 5 between 5&7 lb & lost 2 tobhook pulls.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Barbel between 5.5 & 8.3, all on pellet & feeder.

9 Barbel, 7 Chub

River with good height, flow and colour, weather cloudy and mild. Perfect for an evening's fishing, I thought. So did every small chub on the beat! I had continuous bites on pellet until I just ignored them and when I changed to meat they simply robbed the bait. I must have lost as many as I actually landed, largely because they half-hooked themselves. I did manage a couple of smallish barbel between the chub and lost a really good one when the hook pulled after about a minute.

2 Barbel, 13 Chub

6 Barbel, 9 Chub

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

River dropping with plenty of colour, we caught 28 Barbel to 9lb & 6 Chub to 4lb

28 Barbel, 6 Chub