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No fish seen or caught!

Booked late so we couldn't get on our preffered beat for the last day on the river for 2017.
River had fined off nicely and temperatures rising so expected to catch. As is the case with a first visit took a good walk to
check out the stretch and options, and found a number of likely areas.
Struggled until lunchtime picking up one 4lb chub, but moved around during the afternoon and managed seven barbel up to 7lb 12oz on meat.
Lost a lot of tackle in a number of swims so will be interested to see the river in the summer to get to know it better.

All in all a great end to our river season.

As per previous reports 4x4 needed to get to the river, it had drained off prior to our visit but still very muddy.

Thanks WUF for your advice

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water on the high side but running relatively clear, no Salmon seen or caught. Thank you.

4 Trout

A great few hours on a lovely stretch. Good sized Barbel up to 9 1/2lb.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

Tried different spots but despite river being in great condition and the temp on the up. Only managed to lose 2 fish.
Very disappointing.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

River fining down. Good colour and temp of 7.c. River about 2/3ft above summer levels. Very mild and the forecasted rain stayed away.
2 Barbel and 1 chub caught at up stream end ,chub and one lost barbel from last downstream field.
Usual pellet and boilie.
As stated earlier , don't attempt to get in the field without a 4x4.
Opening and shutting gates ,expect to get very muddy !

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

First point - DO NOT drive down the track to the river after any type of wet weather as you WILL get stuck and I got the impression the farmer is a bit tired of pulling people out - he was kind enough to pull me out though! River was pretty high and chocolate coloured so my plans for a bit of trotting were abandoned as I'd expected they would be. I set up on pellet with a big 80g feeder, tried first two swims for 30mins each without a tap then moved down to fish over a gravel bar I had previously sat on during very low flows. Started getting heavy whacks pretty quickly and after a succession of missed bites connected with a chub of about 4lb. More missed bites and stolen pellets saw me shorten the hair on my hair rig slightly and then I hooked 6 fish in a row, all over 4lb and a couple over 5lb! Finished the day around 4pm (started fishing at 10:30am after car disasters!) and with 9 chub, all over 4lb and a couple just over 5lb. Missed plenty of big bites and lost 3 or 4 fish to snags having struggled to turn them in the fast flow. No barbel but with a day of chub fishing like that who needs them?! Fantastic day and a fantastic beat if you know how to find the fish! Thanks to the owner and to WUF for a great end to my 2016/2017 season.

9 Chub

9 Barbel

No fish caught should of tried the top end of the fishery but ran out of time.