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9 Barbel, 5 Chub

Other = dace + 1 eel
1 angler trotting down from bridge end using single sweet corn & he caught all the chub & barbel. Other angler using open cage feeder with halibut pellets into pool downstream from rocky outcrop then switching to free lining luncheon meat from rocky outcrop catching 1 eel. The beat owner arrived just before the end of the days fishing and offered some advice + offered to lend me a pair of waders which I accepted to use on the 2nd day.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 20 Other

Difficult fishing in low water. Although a lovely day, and a stunning place to fish with Autumn colors just touching the trees. There was a slow trickle of fly coming off all day and the trout were occasionally rising, but it was the nymphs that did the trick, best fish was about 1 1/2 pound.

10 Trout

9 small barbel, 6 chub.

9 Barbel, 6 Chub

Dry fly - Comparadun.

4 Trout

17 x trout 6-8 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. At a time when virtually every kind of river fishing is being affected adversely by lack of water, this one is holding up better than most, despite clear, slow pools and slime on the bottom. No monsters, though. Smaller fish today and uncounted numbers of parr.

17 Trout

16.00 to dark. Waded out from Tump Park on Lydbrook side to island and spent 2hrs fishing luncheon meat, bouncing down riffle below island for 5 chub in 2 to 4lb size.
At 18.00 waded to Home beat bank (it is possible, no more than knee deep right across river) and fished from the cattle drink area to shallows at top of island using feeder and H Pellet. 3 Chub of which 2 were both 5lb 10oz, and 3 large barbel, 9lb 13oz, 9lb 15oz and 10 lb 6oz.
I waded into the cattle drink area and stirred it up and fished in no more than 2ft deep of water 10yds below it. I have seen large barbel in this area from road on Lydbrook side but have failed to connect with them from Lower Courtfield beat. Possible now that there are fewer canoes the fish will feed more regularly in these shallows.

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

Good no. of barbel present but many small, under 1kg. Best bait was pellet. Some excellent perch caught up to 2.5lb

12 Barbel

Conditions good and pleasant weather. Very little surface activity, all fish taken on PTN. Trout were small but grayling were a fair size.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

Last visit to this stream this year, to find the trout extremely aware of anything slightly unusual, like a rod and fisherman trying to be invisible.... Tempted 3 at 6"-9" on paras, and pleased with that on another glorious day in the hills.

3 Trout