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Heavy rain throughout the day, swimfeeder for Barbel and Chub. No bites

Arrived & parked at the top of the beat & walked down most of it before deciding to move the car to the bottom of the beat. We walked the remainder of the section from this point & decided on the first swim opposite the castle ruins which looked a chub & barbel run around 3.5ft deep, steady pace & well oxygenated. First, its worth a mention that the fishery was well sign posted with good parking, paths were good all the way but the top end had some very precarious access, steep & muddy routes down to the swims that looked too dangerous after the recent rain & required proper steps & rails or at least a rope secured at the top to help you down. The swim unfortunately didn't produce the goods for us although my mate did ok with 2 Barbel at 5lb & 6lb & 2 Chub at 3.5 & 2lb. I caught 2 Chub on rolling meat biggest 3lbs & last knockings caught a Barbel around 6lb. Also had 2 small Chub from a swim further upstream on the float.

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

x1 rainbow trout caught on size 2 spinner

1 Trout

x1 rainbow trout caught on size 2 spinner

1 Trout

2 Barbel

8 fish caught on bottom using worm.. Also 4 fish were returned back safely as they were very, very small.... Shouldn't put them in at that size it's not fair to the anglers who pay good money to fish here.

8 Trout

Good directions to get to this remote beat. Thanks to other anglers re parking advice as was very wet so we kept the van on the road. Picturesque beat but they need ropes on the the swim access points as was lethal. 2 falls, one angler in water, not good. Nice touch with 2 picnic benches at riverside. Fishing was ok. All chub on pellet best to 3 1/2 lb across 3 different swims.

7 Chub

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

5 trout, 3 on a pheasant tail nymph, 1 on a brown klinkhammer and 1 on a royal wulf. The morning was torrential rain, hence the nymph, sun came out and lots of fly life in the afternoon. Lovely day

5 Trout

Great afternoon fishing several swims lost 2 barbel into same snag - every fish in that swim made for it just had to hang on and hope several times. Biggest fish may well be a double but dont weigh any fish. Smallest maybe 4lb. Nice 4-5lb chub to finish. All barbel on krill pellet o.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub