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Another quiet day fishing. Water really low. Not a bite all day, so no fish caught.

Lovely river. 0 caught, handful seen - all of which looked small

The gauge said nothing. Zero on the website, flat as you like, the sort of reading that keeps sensible anglers at home. But down at the bottom of the Foy’s Bridge stretch the stone vein run was carrying a good foot over it, pushing and folding in a way that promised something. Twenty-two degrees on the thermometer. Warm as bathwater and twice as lazy.

An evening session, then, with boilies on one rod and the method feeder on the other - groundbait, hemp, pellet and sweetcorn packed tight and dropped onto the crease. The chub came first and kept coming: ten of them in all, the best a broad-shouldered five-pounder that fought like something twice the weight. Then the tip wrapped round properly and the first barbel went 7lb 8oz. Later, in the last of the light, a second - 10lb 2oz of pure river muscle that took line off me twice before it turned.

A serious note on the warm water. At 22°C those barbel took a very long time to recover - far longer than they should. Both needed extended holding in the flow before they had the strength to swim off on their own.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

1 Trout

6 Chub

Two rainbows caught with worm on the bottom.

2 Trout

1 angler, early morning session, barbel @ 8lb chub 3-5lb

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

5-30 am start due to hot weather fished swim on tail end of island 4 chub in first 2 hours then just a solitary chub in next 2 hours groundbait feeder with hemp and pellets with meat on the hook accounted for all fish,unfortunately no sign of any barbel.Left early as a mindless idiot in a kayak decided to paddle upstream and walk through my swim towing his kayak,I really do wonder if some people have any sense at all.

5 Chub

Only fished a few hours… arrived later than planned, first hour was really good lots of fish activity, then as swarms of swimmers and conoers and party’s turned up I couldn’t bare stand all the noise and disruption.

The river looked beautiful, only 2 feet deep! But could see plenty of trout in there and smaller chub. Plenty of oxygen in this turbulent water.

There is no access to most the beat without wading, I wasn’t expecting this. I don’t know how you could access it when the water is higher.

The best boundaries were not clear, I just kept moving further away from the noise of party’s / summer holidays.

Loads of blanket weed!!!! Swamping everything, every cast, made it quite an unpleasant experience.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Nothing