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A very warm and bright day. Managed to find the chub who took meat. Unfortunately no Barbel.

10 Chub

River low and clear. Barbel caught in fast flowing water to ledger. Chub to 4lb, but mostly 2-3lb, caught on float trotting meat. A few of the Chub fell to the ledger. Fantastic days fishing, but an extremely hard over the hill walk past the wood at the beginning and end of the day.

2 Barbel, 34 Chub

Had to keep moving to find the fish with the first 3 swims I fished during the morning not producing anything. When I did find the right swims, it was clear they were full of chub with bites coming on float and feeder straight away. Lots of decent chub but only one which went over 4lb. The one barbel, 8-10, came mid afternoon and took a boilie almost as soon as it was cast out. Might have been more around but reckon the chub were quicker to the bait! Did have to ask someone fishing the far side not to cast over my trotting line which was only a couple of rod lengths or so out from my bank. Sensed he wasn't happy, but did as I asked.

1 Barbel, 15 Chub

River low and clear, but spot on for fishing off the rocks. 10 barbel and 17 chub caught in the fast water at the top of the pool and 32 Chub caught on the run off. Couldn't get through the chub at times, but they tailed off through the day, changing hookbaits regularly helped keep the bites coming. Lovely fishery and we will be returning.

10 Barbel, 49 Chub, 2 Other

Fantastic day on this beat. Three anglers fished - 9 barbel (2 of them over 8lb) and well over 60 chub - biggest 5lb. Fish caught all through the day. Lovely beat, full of fish and beautiful to see so many birds on the river, particularly the ducks.

9 Barbel, 68 Chub

2 Barbel, 42 Chub

A welcome change in temp. and good cloud cover for starters, thought we might be in for a bumper day however, for some reason known only to the fishing gods it was not to be. sport was patchy, a couple of fish then nothing for an hour or so, that was the pattern all day. All fish taken in the woods section to meat or bread, majority on meat, could not get a touch anywhere else but to be honest very limited options below the woods. Thought we might have a "Magic" hour or so to finish the day but apart from a hectic half hour for one rod it went completely dead by 9pm. Called it a day 9:45 and made the "Gentle stroll" back to the car. All in all given the conditions felt as if we had under achieved somewhat

32 Chub

2 Barbel, 27 Chub

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Very similar to the day before with most of the action from chub in the morning untill it started getting hot. 1 barbel out to boilie

1 Barbel, 38 Chub