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Best day for 10. years on middle court. Maybe the autumn fishing has kicked off with the rain over the weeked. Perfect conditions saw a 10lb barbel early doors folloed by 7 other good sized fish All fit and raring to go ! Stephan reckoned its the first double of the year for the beat. It had a nother hook saw it knew its stuff and took a while to subdue! All carefully suoervised by my fishing buddy a local swan who sat alongside me all day also a peregrine falcon and the local kingfisher family

Didnt even get to wet

large Pellet and krill feeder mix worked well

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

several barbel throughout the day biggest weighing 8lb 12oz, 8lb 2oz and 7lb 12 oz, the others averaging 5-7lb, lots of small chub and dace caught trotting a float with sweetcorn, once feeding it was 1 a chuck. Great days fishing

8 Barbel, 99 Chub, 9 Other

4 Trout

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Short session before the rain came in caught on spiders

2 Trout

1 Barbel

The river was rising and looked good. Unfortunately there was a lot of detached algae floating down stream, catching on the line and pulling my feeder around, could only keep a bait in the water 5 to 10 mins. Didn't seem to put the fish off though.
Only fished half the day as weed collection was getting frustrating.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

The river was down a touch on yesterday and slightly clearer but still carrying a tinge. We knew big rain was coming by early afternoon so we were on the river by 10am. We fished from 10 to about 1.30pm. The weather alternated from light drizzle to dry but overcast. At lunchtime we saw hatches of olives of several different sizes and caddis. And the sand martins were furiously swooping, even when we could see nothing so presumably it was midges. But, given a moderate to good hatch, not a rise was seen. One fish of a pound and a bit was taken on a montana-type small streamer, another better fish turned but not hooked on something similar under the trees and another fish pricked on a PTN nymph on the edge of some faster water. I was glad to introduce Pete to the Usk this weekend and I think his appetite has been whetted, despite our relatively poor catch. Putting the rods away now til next spring, sadly.

1 Trout