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Fairly slow fishing today, plenty of fish showing later on in evening but not feeding.Managed 2 Chub including one of 5 lbs 10 oz on meat,a switch to pellet later on brought 1 Barbel,around 6 lbs.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Terrible days fishing-Fished the Bay Area with a number of other anglers fishing. Reservoir like a Mill pond. No fish rising all day, no one catching anything no even the Perch—-First blank I have had here in a long time-Don’t mind not catching but would have been nice to see some activity

River very low and clear,fished from about 1pm until 9pm canoes a real pain until late evening when I managed to pick up a couple of chub on luncheon meat.

2 Chub

Fly fished the top end. Evidence of bait fishing but no rubbish problems.
Hard work, as the rainbows were't playing I went after brownies catching one.
Friendly and very helpful wardens. The road up to the tower has lots of pot holes so need a 4x4 or something with clearance to get up there.
Spoke to a few anglers during the day and unfortunately there seems to be an ongoing problem with illegal fishing methods and night fishing. Shame as it's such a picturesque venue.
Still I had an enjoyable day even if it was hard work.

1 Trout

River very low and glides very slow. 0.39m on the Elan guage keeping the water temperature down to 15 degrees. Mainly sunny and quite calm. Some midge, saw no upwings all day, intermittent sedge returnees at times and not much sign of errant terrestrials on the water. So, very little to encourage fish to rise, though there were a few sippers in foam lanes, all of which proved to be trout. Didn't raise a graying all day and only managed to find two on a nymph fished duo. Also dredged a few of the usual likely spots, and others currently more accessible, with heavier artillery but only managed to connect with another trout. Best trout 16 inches which, together with most of the others, was taken on a dark HE CDC sedge pattern, which also caught the most interesting catch of the day, a 4.5lb chub - not what I came expecting to fish for but a welcome lump nonetheless. It was one of a shoal on the fin in clear, shallow, sluggish water at the bottom of the beat. Having set the ambush, and once caught, most of the rest of the fish followed it for several minutes until they were about two rods length away, at which point and much as expected, they all just melted away! Apologies to all holiday-makers, but bring on the rain and lots of it - our rivers need a good clear out before September.

8 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

1 Trout

River level fairly low with clear water made for a difficult day. Fished the boat pool area with meat and pellet. No bites on meat but 3 good bites on pellet resulting in the 3 fish to save the day. Canoe traffic heavy during the day up to 4.00pm which didn’t help and resulting with having to wind in and let the less considerate ones and people with no idea how to paddle a canoe pass by.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

early start but didn't get first bite till 3.30 in afternoon after a lot of boat traffic and some deciding to swim the river instead of using boat then caught 2 barbell within an hour

2 Barbel

Never fished the stretch before. Quite uniform but looked nice regardless.
Weather was in the upper 20's so decided against waders & fished from the bank.
We struggled initially but found the fish a few pegs from the end of the stretch on a long cast to the far bank trees, landing & losing a string of fish from 4:30pm til dark.
Best fish was 8lb which pulled the rod in due to a tangle on the tip but a fearless tuck & pike retrieved it quickly!!
All fish taken on small pellets banded to a 14's or 12's hook to a long hooklink... Up to 6ft.
Many Thanks.

9 Barbel, 12 Chub

2 Barbel, 1 Chub