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16” Brown Trout on Black Woolly Bugger
15” Brown Trout on hare’s ear nymph
12” 10” 10” on Grey Wulff

5 Trout

An eel about a lbs. Largely unfishable apart from concrete pegs near to parking area. Very shallow downstream of these pegs. Needs pegs cutting into the banks upstream to widen scope of fishing options. No pools capable of holding fish at low river height. Stayed for a couple of hours but gave up. Not worth the money.

1 Chub, 1 Other

Good access to the bank with clearly marked pegs. Struggled all day until I moved into the fast water right at the death. Unfortunately lost a barbel on the feeder in a snag but then had one on the float near 9lbs. A historic blank was avoided. Must try harder

1 Barbel

Nobody catching,except crayfish!!… shocking!

Crayfish heaven…so annoying to pay good money and not so much as a trout in sight!!

Beautiful Beat but water was very low level and gin clear. Yet running through quite fast. Good access to to the river , but the fishing was ver slow. Mainly fishe the lead.

9 Chub

There was a bit of a downstream breeze blowing, but the water looked perfect - falling from rain the day before and still a hint of colour in it. Not much rising, despite a large hatch of what looked like very edible flies around 4pm. I found plenty of small fish on nymphs, including two at the same time on my lead fly and dropper, and one of around 1lb.

8 Trout

1 Barbel, 27 Chub

Low, slack water. Some colour, but pretty clear to depth of 3ft. Good conditions. First line in at 7.15am, ledgered pellet. Knocks but nothing really positive till 10.30 when wrap and run saw fish head into weed and rocks, where it was lost. Frustrating morning. A few feeders lost on snags
At noon things perked up, with a good 8.5lb Barbel, taken on ledgered pellet.
Transfer over to float (corn,, hemp and meat) saw several small Chub and big Dace accounted for, with a large Perch lost (on corn!) but by 2. 30pm, action died down . Water noticeably warmer. Ledgered meat brought tentative bites, but nothing connected.
6 till 9 brought significant change. Initially some decent Chub (up to 4lb) landed, at at last, a trio of Barbel (6,6,5). All fish in good condition. Largest Barbel had noticeable hump in back. Action came in waves. Almost as if switch flicked. Good sport.
Dusk was the trigger time. As others have commented elsewhere, it seems to make the Barbel bolder, and Chub get edged out.
Hard work and perseverance required. The last 3 hours, turned it into a memorable day.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub, 6 Other