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3 Anglers fished. The old boys saved the day.

29 Barbel, 36 Chub

A dank old day with drizzle for most of but good fishing conditions although the river was at 0.4 (RoW) and nearly all the colour gone. Two fished down the bottom and one up the top. Slow in parts but with a couple of moves for 2 of us, barbel came late. They were split 7, 3, 3 with two of the 7 coming in the last two casts approaching 1800 inc a last fish of 10.01 on the second 'just one last cast'. Of the rest Steve had an 8.14 and all the rest were between 3 and 6. Chub to 4lb.
GB feeders worked for 2 of us, loose feeding pellets over the top. The other one caught late using a blackcap and hemp. Fish fell to spicy sausage or halibut pellets. A satisfying day where confidence, patience and knowing when to move paid off. Thank you WUF.

13 Barbel, 14 Chub

Bit of a struggle really with just a couple of chub to show for my mornings efforts. I will be back tho as the stretch really does look very good for a few Barbel.

2 Chub

1 Chub

Cracking day today my best trip so far plenty of action through out the afternoon morning was abit slow with only a few chub all rangeing from 2lb to 5lb and the barbel 4lb to 7lb roughly

2 Barbel, 11 Chub

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

5 Barbel, 13 Chub

Enjoyable day, whilst they certainly weren’t climbing up the rod there was plenty of action at times. Strangely no bites from 6-8pm. The work Stefan the bailiff is doing here is excellent, the beat is well looked after but still feels very natural.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

6 Chub

With my Covid symptoms gone we were 4 again today but I travelled alone and stayed up or down banks from them.
A bit sunnier in spells than yesterday I'm told but river still had a nice tinge of colour and was over a foot up on norm.
We all caught barbel, which is my top criteria for a very successful trip, from 4 different swims between the top and bottom of the beat - two with 6, one with two and one with a lone 7lber. One of the two was a real beauty of 10lb 04 and a first ever barbel double for happy Steve, so happy that he actually wrote woo hoo in a message, unheard of for him. As usual no one was near him to take a photo. Two of the 15 were babbers but all the rest 5 - 7lb apart from Barney. We were all lazy and stuck to feeders but the flow was lovely and the runs clear enough so the float would have gone through nice, maybe next week. All the barbel came to pellets. Biggest chub 4.08.
A great day on our favourite beat, thanks WUF and despite not seeing him today, great work from Stefan.
'Today is such a beautiful day, all my troubles and my worries seem to, flutter away....' (Samantics)

15 Barbel, 11 Chub