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River low and clear. Weather warm and humid with full cloud cover and a gentle breeze. The fishing was incredible. Most of the bites were immediate and violent. I fished for 4 hours. After landing my 8th specimen barbel I walked up the hill and picked wild cherries for the preserving jar to calm me down. 8 barbel 8 Chub.

8 Barbel, 8 Other

Beautiful part of the river. Feeder and float used. I caught 40 chub and two barbel the first day, 35 chub and 5 barbel the next. My friend caught the rest. The hill is a killer.

14 Barbel, 103 Chub

Another great day on Fownhope 5 , always worth the trek into the woods .
SG fishing in the woods managed 31 chub, 5 barbel , SM fishing one peg upstream had 18 chub.
MH fishing mainly the upper field had 16 chub and 5 barbel.
most of the chub caught were still spawning.

10 Barbel, 65 Chub

6 Chub

Started at 4am, before it got too hot and found some shade in the woods along walk up the hill. Caught plenty of chub on pellets, many thanks.

10 Chub

Hard day, too hot, low water conditions, made our own swim below the wood.
Challenging ! 2 Chub caught as the cloud cover began, late on. Only saw 3 Canoes all day.

2 Chub

On a very hot day on a low river we headed for the wood and fished the faster water of the lucky stones which turned out to be not lucky at all as the barbel simply would not feed . Fortunately we were kept entertained by a ravenous shoal of chub which took whatever we put on the hook below our feeder rigs . In all we managed 33 , mainly in the 2 to 3lb range with 27 coming to one rod . The hill round the wood was a real killer in the near 30 degrees heat .

33 Chub

Hot ! 3 Chubb..made own swims top section

3 Chub

Caught 3 nice chub biggest 4lb on meat below the woods. River was clear and at normal levels, Shame we couldn't get a late season Barbel, roll on June!

3 Chub