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Fished near gate below the hill managed to catch 2 nice barbel once I changed bait one of about 5-6lb other one slightly bigger both in lovely condition rested and returned safely was a nice end to the season in tough cold conditions and a very slippery bank due to the persistent 8 or 9hrs of rain will be in September Ty W&U!!! JD x

2 Barbel

One barbel about 6-7 lb but very windy and cold water rising again

1 Barbel

This is JD RDs daughter I caught a nice 4lb chub sadly that was the only bite for me of the day river fairly good condition back again tomorrow to snag a barbel hopefully

1 Chub

One barbel v good fish but did not have scales with me may be u can guess weight?

1 Barbel

Hard day but did catch four chub between two of us. Walked the whole stretch and fished 6 swims trying to find the fish. River looked nice it had dropped nicely and slight colour and thankfully the rain held off.

Lovely stretch we look forward to coming back in warmer weather in the new season.

4 Chub

Tough day with temperature keeping low and easterly wind. 4 anglers, 3 hoping for an end of season barbel or two, the other out for Pike.
Some nice size chub to 5lbs from lower end. Nothing in top field.

10 Chub

River up nearly a metre overnight and kept rising throughout the day. Only 2 swims that were remotely fish able, but the old adage of fishing a rising river proved correct. 8 barbel between 2 of us all coming between 11 am and 3pm. Biggest was around 7lb. Fantastic day - thanks W & U!

8 Barbel

Not a bite all day! River fast and high, but the eddy I found looked good

River running at 2.5m so pretty high and fast. Caught in the bottom field after Heartattack Hill. Sadly lost 3 to the bankside undergrowth when they dived into bushed at the last minute. No sign of any barbel and also very quiet on the Kingfisher front. Pellets and meat both worked.

4 Chub

Not the best of days to be venturing out with early rain giving way to strong winds and showers. River was very high and coloured, 2.25m at the Mordiford gauge. Started at the furthest upstream end as there seemed to be a little bit of slacker water inside... but no bites there. Then moved over the hill and fished in the swim at the downstream end of the first field. Flow was fiercer here but eventually i started getting some interest on meat close in. Fully expected eels to be the culprits but eventually hooked and landed a modest chub. That pattern continued through to the early afternoon, ended up with 6 chub from that swim, all on meat. Biggest about 4lb but most around 2lb. The vast majority came from under my feet but i did also get a couple of bites further out and down a bit. Would have preferred to move around a lot more but the swims in the woods were unreachable in the high water and many of the downstream field swims were just too treacherous to attempt with liquid mud in the heavy rain. Tried pellets and boilies but nothing showed any interest. Will definitely return here in the simmer. I'd fished here before but never ventured much beyond the wood and it looks like in lower conditions you'd be spoilt for choise.

6 Chub