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3 Grayling

I would like to thank Shaun and pals for their French leader coaching, really helpful. Fishing was a little slow, in spite of what looked like perfect conditions, but I did manage 5 grayling biggest 2lb, all on tungsten bead heads.

5 Grayling

An enjoyable day with 4 barbel caught. No wind, cloudy all day so ideal conditions but the river was very low and needed some more water in it. Fair bit of weed coming down the river.

4 Barbel

Fishing hard. River was low and clear, needs a good rise.

7 Trout, 14 Grayling

I took a good friend along with me this time, and I stupidly told him there were plenty of fish in this river (there are).
The weather was 12-15 degrees, overcast and no wind.
The river however looked lower than it did in May and very clear. We managed a couple of grayling, one taken on the fly fly, and a couple of oos brownies.
Saw quite a few fish rising but could only get the one to come to the fly. Nice day out though, in very mild conditions.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

19 Barbel and 4 Chub on pellets. Fish came steadily throughout the day.

19 Barbel, 4 Chub

This has got to be one of the greatest and biggest beats for grayling I have ever fished, within the first few casts I caught a small grayling and a larger one was landed a few casts afterwards. throughout the day I landed 2 small grayling 3 medium sized ones at around 20cm 2 large grayling at around 30cm with one being slightly larger than the other and one good brownie that was about 35cm. I fished a 2 fly Czech nymph rig the whole day with a pink Czech nymph as the point and a size 16 tungsten headed pheasant tail nymph as the dropper, all the grayling came to the dropped and the trout came to the point fly. All in all this has been one of the best days fishing I have ever had, I broke my Pb for grayling twice and also for trout.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

Not much happening at Abernant today only a few rises in the time I was there and very little activity nymphing. All trout and grayling took weighted nymphs fished duo. Grayling to 14 inches and trout to 13 inches. there was no hatch at all and very limited fly on the water. The flow was not my cup of tea today and levels need to rise to get it moving. A lovely beat none the less and will give it another go with another 6 inches on the gauge

6 Trout, 9 Grayling

Second day of 2 on the Creel and what a difference in weather conditions from the day before, it was dull and damp all day long, typical autumn weather.
I started in the church field and had a barbel after 30 minutes of starting, no more bites were forthcoming so I moved to the bottom of the beat where I had taken one fish the day before. This yielded not a bite so I moved back upstream to a peg I had not fished before but had put in a little bit of bait walking past. I hooked a barbel second cast but it managed to shred the line on a snag and escaped. No other bites came my way so I moved again to another swim but had no bites here either.
A move back to my original swim was made mid-afternoon as I had taken the trouble to keep a bit of bait going in through the day. A further 7 barbel were taken to a best of 7lb 2oz and another lost when the hook pulled out. All fish taken on straight lead with either pellet or boilie hook bait, a glugged bait seem to do the job best of all.
There is now a gas gun bird scarer operating in the field opposite the bottom of the beat... it is very loud if you fish near it and I can’t help feeling most of the fish might have departed that area as well!
A lovely days fishing in a very nice place.

8 Barbel

First time I've fished this beat, fantastic Scenery overlooking Goodrich Castle. We both fished the float and caught 8 nice chub and 4 Barbel.
Great day.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub