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Three trout caught in two hours on brown klinkhammer including one of 17" below the bridge at Penpont. All returned safely. Many others risen and missed. Lovely beat, easily accessible and worth spending a whole day at.

No fish caught. Bad Day! Various patterns used.

Two of us fished from 11.30am until 6.30pm, catching 21 trout up to 14". Water was crystal clear. Sparodic hatches of small olives and sedges kept the odd trout rising throughout the day. 12 caught on small dries (f-flies mostly), the rest on small gold head nymphs. About 1/3 of the trout looked wild, the rest were stocked, some with damaged pectoral fins.

Bank holiday canoe traffic made fishing virtually impossible until after about 2 pm as canoes were veering all over the river,one even bumped into the bank in front of me!

I fished a few swims with difficult access and had 6 Barbel between 4pm and 8 pm then finished off with a decent Chub.the best fish was a very hard fighting 9 lb the rest between 6lb to 8 lb.

Had a great days sport on 31st August on the Lower Carrotts & Luggsmouth beat. Had 4 barbel and 3 chub, the best 2 barbel around the severn pound mark.

All were taken next to the fishing hut on halibut pellets.

25 Plus Grayling ranging from 7 inches to 14 inches.
3 small Brown trout biggest 8 inches. Fished beat using Czech Nymphs.

2 barbel to two rods, again caught on halibut pellet. Both fish caught within 2 minutes of each other and then very quiet for the rest of the day.

All in all a very enjoyable weekends fishing.

I am a fly fisherman but I like a go with my son for the barbel. Yesterday was outstanding and I have to say we lost count and some of the fish took an age to land. My son begged that we stop as he was exhausted after 5 in a row.

I hope that that everyone treat the fish with respect and uses strong enough tackle and barbless hooks as some of the fish caught had other traces in. Thank you WUF. Didn't see a salmon by the way.

29th August, Arrow Mill R30: 6 x trout to 13 inches.
30th August, Monkland R31: 1 x trout 7 inches. Bit of a jungle at this time of the year this one, at least for elderly people like me, and I just gave up with it in the end due to lack of access.

Wyebank & Courtfield - 4 barbel, 7-8 pounds (fishery busy with 5 other anglers which restricted movement between swims, which was disappointing)

Backney - 10 chub, 2 eels, 1 barbel - 8 pounds.

Middle Hill Court - 10 barbel - 5-9 pounds, 2 chub up to 4.5 pounds.

White House - 3 barbel - 5-7.5 pounds, stretch alive with dace.