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2 Barbel, 35 Chub

One had a couple of small chub and lost a barbel at the net another had four chub and I thought I was going to blank! Several large bites early on that resulted in nothing then in the evening managed to catch 2 barbel in the strong flow. Enjoyable battle!! Rather cold wind blowing most of the day, supposed to be July!

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Barbel, 15 Chub

River seemed to have dropped a little from yesterday, couldn't fish the rapids as already taken so went to the top end of the fishery, used the same methods as yesterday with a bit more success, long periods between bites
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6 Barbel, 12 Chub, 2 Other

There's not loads of swims here but enough to offer a bit of choice. After thoroughly examining both halves of the beat we succumbed to the slightly lazy option of fishing the two swims in the top half of the section next to where the cars are parked.
The benefits of being out in the fresh air were slightly defeated when a chap turned up with a tipper truck and proceeded add the remains of a bed and mattress to the smouldering rubbish pile behind us. These took an hour or so to properly ignite and burn through but fortunately it was a breezy day and the smoke was generally blown away rather than towards us.
The fishing was fairly steady with one rod catching all of the Barbel whilst the other chose to spend the afternoon on the lower section of the beat where plenty of good sized Chub were caught.

4 Barbel, 21 Chub

Difficult day of fishing, windy, river normal with a little colour. Fished 0900 to 1800 on the lower section, beach area below the bridge. 3 small chub and 1 around 4lb. Tried float, rolling meat and feeder/ pellet through the day. Had one barbel take late afternoon but it slipped off the hook. A beautiful stretch that looks so ‘Fishy’ but left a little disappointed.

4 Chub

Successful last minute negotiations for use of a few spare hours saw me at UHC which had produced a few barbel recently. Only fished it once (unsuccessfully) before so I don't know the swims. Slightly overcast, mild not hot, quite clear but nice flow in the top section which was dead last time. Started at 1700 in
the top section on bomb and pellet and had 3 Chub in the firdt hour. Finished with 4 Chub in the last hour on gb feeder and meat inc the biggest at 4.12, all the rest a good size too. No signs of barbel. Loads of Chub showing and move have slayed it on the float. Had to leave at 2015 but a really lovely evening and worth a return.

10 Chub

All caught between 7pm and dark. 8oz up to a pound.
Great fun.

7 Trout

Lots of good chub here. I decided to go all out for the barbel in the evening and switched from 8mm Robin Red to Hinders Barbel Bomb. Big mistake as I only caught one chub after that. This whole beat feels a lot more overgrown since I was here three years ago. I was in a pretty tight swim below the wood. It would not have been my first choice as the bank was steep and the grass was quite slippery in the wet but my options felt limited. I am already booked in for next week so I shall scout the beat in advance to see what better swim options there are. And I will leave the Barbel Bomb at home.

10 Chub

8lb. fresh run silver hen fish on a fly.

1 Salmon