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A great day’s fishing. The river, whilst still low, had a nice colour and looked in good condition. Several barbel caught during the day and came alive in the last 90 minutes. Most enjoyable, thank you!

12 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

Another very hot day with record temperatures forecast. We decided to fish for four hours after sunrise without any success. We returned in early evening to find the river still very low with high water temperature. More successful this time with three barbel each. Floating weed still a big problem but we overcame this by having the rod tips low at water level.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Another tough day on this beat. The water temperature had gone up to 20c and rising. The barbel were not interested in feeding during the day. Then, just as the last 90 minutes into dusk started, rafts of weed came down even in close and made keeping a line out for longer than 5 minutes was impossible. Just one barbel last knockings.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

The river was still very low and the colour was slightly less brown although far from being clear. Very pleasant temperature for fishing. Floating streamer weed still a nuisance. The barbel were seemingly not interested in feeding during the day and all fish bar one were caught in the last couple of hours .

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

We were hoping that heavy rain the day before might have raised the river level and got rid of the algae bloom. Sadly the river was very low and still coloured brown. Lots of floating streamer weed which was a nuisance. Nearly all fish caught in the last two hours.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

All fish caught on pellets using feeder or pva bags biggest barbel 7lb 3oz. Fished from 2pm till dark canoe traffic was not too bad but banks were slippery after the rain we had so take care.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

All fish caught on pellets using feeder or pva bags biggest barbel was 7lb 3oz. Canoe traffic was not too bad but banks be came very slippery after rain we had so take care.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Hard work but enjoyable day

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

A low river greeted us so we initially chose two swims towards the bottom end of the beat that had a deeper run on the inside. Lots of weed was caught but no fish, so we decided to try other swims further up the beat for the rest of the day. A couple of small chub and six eels were caught all on a variety of baits, meat, pellet and sweet corn.

2 Chub, 6 Other