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Although good conditions, water height and colour decent, weather dry and a little overcast, bites were hard to come by. We only had 1 fat eel from the croy at the top of the beat on ledgered meat and a chub in the slow section at the bottom of the beat on pellet with swimfeeder. The croy, with faster water is a good walk up if you’re carrying gear, beware. Looks a great spot for float fishing but alas we were only equipped for ledgering tactics. Some work is needed to open up a few more swims in the faster water section. Saw kingfishers and a large fresh salmon leap upstream of the croy next to opposite bank a few times. A few respectful canoes came past.

1 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Chub on the small size, up to about 2lb, mostly taken trotting. Stopped using maggots due to the number of out of season trout about 6-12oz. Perhaps there ought to be a trout fly fishing permit availain season?
Entertained for a while by an otter slowly fishing its way upstream - I for one am more than happy to share the river with them. All in all an enjoyable day, even though I couldn't find the bigger fish.

5 Trout, 10 Chub

4 Chub

another sunny warm day. river up very slightly from the previous day and looking good. not very productive - only one fish but very happy with a chub which was at least 4lb. interestingly he had a rusty trout nymph stuck in his lip - removed of course.

1 Chub

nice warm autumn day and river slightly up on previous day. salmon not obliging though, although there was some excitement in the afternoon with at least 6 salmon seen jumping just downstream - ranging from a small silver grilse to much bigger but coloured fish. still nothing caught or touched but at least kept the confidence levels up for the rest of the day...

Lovely day on the river started at the top croy caught 3 barbel & a chub quite quickly, moved about halfway down had another barbel & 3 chub, finished up at the bottom until dusk had another barbel & a couple of Chub, biggest barbel around 7-8lb mark, all fish caught on robin red pellet fished with a small feeder really is a beautiful stretch of river will be back

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

Couple of Chub and some silvers on the float. No Barbel. Nice venue but too many areas inaccessible.
have booking for tomorrow but will forego to fish somewhere else as .
Access to the fishery not recommended for any one with physical problems due to very steep climb back out.

4 Chub, 6 Other

Managed to catch eight nice chub on a bright and sunny day, though with a little bit of colour to the water.
Fish came steadily spread throughout the day, all in 3.5-4llb range, on pellet and meat.
Highlight of the day, a PB Chub of 6llb 5oz, taken fairly early in the session, certainly made up for missing out on a barbel.
A cracking fish from a beautiful spot.

8 Chub