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River was running high, fast and very coloured with a lack of swim access. Fished for about 2 hours but was struggling to hold bottom with debris grabbing my line so called it a day after that. No fish.

8 x stock rainbows.

Arrived early afternoon, river high, coloured and fast. Selected a peg but nothing after a couple of hours, moved 20 meters downstream and fished a further 3 hours catching two barbel, one chub and was snapped by a barbel. All on pellet over hemp. A great beat, would be fantastic when the river is more sociable! Thanks to WUF for allowing us to fish these amazing beats.

River still got a strong push with levels high, lot of debris like trees and logs coming down the river. The chub seem to look for refuge in slacks but the barbel appear to remain in the fast water, not even in the creases which makes getting a bait out to them and holding it there very difficult and not for the faint hearted. Fished with pellet and got a couple out. Hard going but not impossible. Need to visit the gym more often so i can tackle the trek from car/fishery!

5 Barbel, 3 to Pellets 2 to meat. Very good stamp of fish the biggest went 10lb 10 oz. Only the Meadow was fishable in the conditions. Very nice beat. Thanks to the baliff who came to chat, sorry missed your name.

WUF note - Courtfield bailiff is the owner, Don.

River at a good height and clarity but no hook ups. Fished beat from top to bottom and saw possibly one fish head and tail. Forgotten how `good` the wading was!

Once again the conditions conspired against us and we found the river very high and heavily coloured. Not knowing the stretch and having zero knowledge of favoured areas, depths and bottom type, we were literally fishing blind. We were very pleased to find 10 barbel up to 8lbs 6oz, 4 to KC and 6 for GP. We viewed it as something of a triumph in the conditions. One day we will see this stretch at normal level.

Although the river looked spot on and thinning down nice, we only managed a couple of barbel and chub of no size on feeder fished scolded pellets and paste.

Not a productive day 0 fish landed.

Apart from the slight frost the river looked perfect. Fining down at more or less spot on level. But dispite this we struggled. Two barbel 4lb & 7lb & 5 chub 2lb each. This is great looking beat with plenty of accessable swims, will be back.