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Tough day, cold overnight with a frost so not ideal conditions. Fished the deeper sections managed 2 chub between us.

2 Chub

Difficult day trotting with the river fairly low. 1 grayling just under the 2lb mark

1 Grayling

Crisp and chilly morning. Overcast. River had a good flow to it, but it did seem a little low, I guess we haven’t had rain for about two weeks. Fished with nymph (Pink Shrimp) on a Klinkhammer indicator. I was fishing the nymph at about 4 feet to start with, then in one of the deeper slower parts fo the river I decided to go down to about 6-7 feet. One grayling of about 10-12" resulted.

A slow day, but beautiful none the less. Unfortunately my waders didn’t miraculously patch themselves up over winter… freezing wet feet for most of the five hours, but great fun and it was lovely to be out on the river.

1 Grayling

Quite a pace to the water today with c.18" clarity, Showing .51 on the Byton level. Freezing, foggy start however the sun burnt through by 11am into a glorious, sunny day. All fish caught trotting maggot, primarily in the upper section. Only a couple of small ones, mostly in the 10 to 16 inch range.

1 Trout, 15 Grayling

Beautiful stretch of the river a few grayling seen one hooked and lost, a little slip in the river resulting in a soaking! But still all fun

One OOS Trout. Beat looking great

1 Trout

Good conditions, 1 fish caught around 11lb

1 Pike

Nice to be able to park next to the river, seamed to be quite a fast shallow stretch, found one swim with some deeper slower water which I started in, caught a Chub after about an hour then decided to explore the rest of the beat, the other swims were difficult to access some with steep banks all with fast shallow water, returned to my original swim to catch another Chub. Glad I was the only one on the beat & was able to move back into my original swim. Fished the RH bank as you look upstream, fish caught on Robin Red pellet

2 Chub

Tough day. Looked perfect too. Never mind was very tranquil

3 Chub

As this was the last day of the mild spell I negotiated a fishing day with The Long Suffering Pauline (TLSP) and headed here as 2 good chub had come from the bottom swim recently - my usual MHC having produced 3 blanks on the last three reports.
I fished the bottom swim in the morning for 2 chub and the last 2 hours for 1 chub, all about 4lb, on GB feeder and maggot or meat. I tied 3 swims above it in between for only one missed bite. As it was as a mild as Spring and with a 7 degree water temp I'd hoped for more but was happy with the 3 chub. I apologise again to the pike angler who booked on the day who I suspected of being a poacher as as at 0900 I was still the only person booked on. Turned out he was legit and we eventually came to an amicable agreement on use of THE swim and both a decent example of our target quarry out of it.

3 Chub