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1 Barbel, 21 Chub

Enjoyable days fishing at the top end, caught chub up to 4lb and a 8lb barbel last cast. Caught all fish ledgering using pellets and meat. Sorry to say but the river looked dead, no weed to speak of, and was low and brown compared to previous years

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Hot, bright day, plenty of good average sized Chub (3 - 4lb) on meat. Also caught an eel.

8 Chub, 1 Other

Only two of us fished today, but we had a great day on our favourite beat!

16 Barbel, 16 Chub

The river was a foot up coloured and falling and looked perfect.we fished the swims at the top of the fishery and all caught lots of chub in the 3 to 5 lb catagory plus two eels. The barbel however were not obliging with only two between us. Overall an excellent day’s fishing in a beautiful setting.

2 Barbel, 32 Chub, 2 Other

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

Sometimes it all comes together. The river was up and a perfect colour; it rose 6 inches during the day. There were no canoes (4) and the fish were feeding. I was expecting to be inundated with Chub as that seemed to be the trend elsewhere, but only one today. All the Barbel were pristine, all below 7lb with the smallest at 3lb. All scrapped wonderfully and all returned quickly.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 fished, rived conditions perfect, probably should have had a few more, still a good first day on a great beat.

9 Barbel, 16 Chub

A great last day to the season, all rods caught, biggest going 10lb 2oz.

15 Barbel

From 1.2m on Tuesday with lots of chub being caught and odd barbel, to 2.2m when we fished and chocolate brown - more barbel but less of an all round fishing experience as we were confined to the near quarter of the river - never happy us anglers. Very mild morning with river temp of 9.5 and 6 inch vis. 3 stayed in their swims all day, one at the beach (4 barbel to 7.5lb, all late on gb feeder with 10mm halibuts and a long tail having tried loads) and two up the top (1 with three of 3, 3, & 4 and one with 1 of 5lb, all on maggot feeder - lost 1 each). I tried two swims down the bottom for one chub, moved below Steve at 1100 who was catching, to completely jinx his day with hardly a bite after, an affliction that I too had using maggot and gb feeders with all manner of hookbaits. My last throw was to move into the top swim at 1500 using straight lead and meat with meat in a PVA bag and ensured a happy last trip of the season with barbel of 7.12 and 8. The other were a dace, a gudgeon and an eel. Thanks for a great season WUF. Now have to endure the puddles for 3 months!

10 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other