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The river was up a little when we got there but rose about 4 feet during the day. I caught 2 on my first 2 casts. Richard pike fished with no luck. The best chub was about 4 pounds.

5 Chub

A tough but enjoyable day for my return to Sugwas. Very bright and frosty with the levels up a few feet and running clear and quite cold. Fished 4 swims for one Chub around 2.5lb on crust/cheesepaste.

1 Chub

Just a short 4 hour session. Managed just the one chub with the river pushing through and well up.

1 Chub

Conditions were ideal, mild weather, river had fined down and colour was good. 6 Barbel were caught throughout the day smallest 6lb biggest 9lb, all caught on ledgered Halibut pellets. Excellent day on a great venue, many thanks WUF.

6 Barbel

1 barbel and 2 chub on pellet and bread.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 Barbel

Three perch.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub, 3 Other

A bright sunny day with a strong flow,fished in slacker water to a crease caught a 6lb barbel 2nd cast on pellet then nothing till a lovely conditioned chub took my boilie wrapped in krill paste early in the afternoon weighing 4 1/2lb. DS caught a 7lb barbel late in the day in the faster water followed by a 4lb chub both on pellet. A lovely beat, thank you wuf.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Arriving early again we walked up to the very top end of the beat, baiting up a couple swims just after the woodland. We settled in the swims the far end of the field and fished for a few hours. No luck until early afternoon when 2 barbel were banked in quick succession, 5.08 and 7.12. Moved up to the pre-baited swims, again fishing for a couple hours with no success. Finally the rod wrenched around to what turned out to be an incredible fight with a barbel weighing 9.06. So nearly the magic double!! We moved back down towards the car and the lower half of the beat. Fished up until dark, unfortunately losing what felt like another specimen sized barbel. Nevertheless a good day was had on a river under challenging conditions. All fish fell to groundbait feeder and pellet or meat.
On a slighly more negative note, we did notice 2 small (2-3lb) barbel dead in the water in the shallow cattle drink at the top of the beat. Nothing suspicious I'm sure, but maybe worth other anglers keeping an eye out in the near future.

3 Barbel