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3 on wet fly and 4 taken on a streamer

7 Trout

Arriving around 4pm, and speaking to some guys who had been fishing, they said the river was dropping and clearing... Tried a few pools and runs, as usual saw a couple moving in the Gravel catch, other wise no action. Good height, water bit too dirty.

River rose about a foot during the morning, so fishing quite challenging- but both caught, myself with PB Barbel of 8.5 lb so delighted. Lovely stretch of water and was able to drive a camper van down next to the fishing hut. Stayed at the field behind The Moon in Mordiford where we were made most welcome and ate two fabulous meals, so very much recommended. We will return. The 'other' fish was a large eel around the 2.5lb mark.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Quite a cool and wet day with the river carrying a good amount of fresh water. Caught from beats 6 and 4, the better fish coming towards in the evening. Despite the weather a good day as always on this beat.

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Fished only the short section of the beat from the downstream limit to the railway bridge. A lovely stretch of river with plety of interesting asects. No fish seen but I'm sure there will be fish in here!

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished from 11am to 6pm. Water at a lovely height and colour and fish showing in all the right places included some coloured thing (one very big one in the Vanstone) and a few fresh grilse. Chopped and changed methods to get a response but the ony interest was a tug in the Maddox. Canoe hatch was heavy either side of lunch but after 2.00pm it reduced to the occasional canoe.

Caught fish all day long on various pellet hook baits. Used feeder and groundbait tactics. We both enjoyed the day and will be back in the future

36 Barbel

The heavy rain, which woke me at 5:00 am (nay bother, it was time to get up anyway), was more than welcome in this driest of dry summers. Its reappearance, albeit brief, as I was getting suited and booted in the Sned Wood car park at 07:00 hours, was less welcome. In spite of the rain, the river still painfully low; even if the rain had put a fraction on the level and a hint of colour in the water.

20 plus fish from the upstream section in the morning. As ever, a lot of these fish came from just two runs; a deep corner (that does not usually produce for me) and a shallow run (and I mean shallow - I doubt that it was a foot deep) just below the weir. Is it just my imagination, but are the Lugg Grayling smaller this year? In previous seasons, most of the fish I caught fell into the 8-10 inch bracket. This year, 7-9 inch would be a more accurate description - with many of them at the 7 inch end of the range.

Less productive downstream in the afternoon. I usually find this. A combination of less water (both in terms of what is available to fish and lower level/colour), more sun and a post prandial angler, me thinks. I will try reversing the order next time to see if it makes a difference.

Fished a tugsten Endrick Spider on point and a Snipe & Purple on dropper for most of the day - with nearly all of the fish on the point fly. While there were a few fish rising, as far as I could tell, they were mainly micro Grayling (at least that's all I caught when I covered them with a Klinkhammer).

The Trout number is accurate. The Grayling number is an estimate

9 Trout, 25 Grayling