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Arrived around midday to a fogbound very cold day, fished feeder as previous day in same swims, no bites or fish landed...quite bizarre given my previous days results..!

Postponed a planned early start due to thick fog and a very hard frost, arrived about midday with the intention of roving with deadbaits, having proved unsuccessful and with no pike located a switch to pellet feeder for the last hour or so resulted in 6 quickfire chub to 4lb, a really enjoyable mid winter afternoons fishing.

6 Chub

1 Grayling, 3 Chub

8 Barbel 3 Chub on pellet. All fish caught in the morning.

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

A tough day despite the river looking perfect for a Barbel or two (up a few feet, plenty of colour, mild weather). Checked out several areas but due to oversleeping and arriving late I only actually fished in two swims. Two perfect conditioned Chub taken on maggots from a big crease in the bottom field saved the blank. Wish I'd moved to that swim earlier, because it seems to be a good high water spot :-)

2 Chub

Difficult day in bright conditions. Both barbel came in the last half hour on paprika flavoured meat and after struggling all day at least I left feeling relatively happy.

2 Barbel

8 Chub on bread in the morning. Changed to pellet at 2 o'clock and took 12 Barbel. Left at 4.30 still getting knocks every cast.

12 Barbel, 8 Chub

Arrived to a clear river with mild conditions, took 3 chub to just under 5lb in successive casts then all went quite for a few hours, moved about with no further action.
Had a nice barbel around the 7 pound mark mid afternoon, packed up about 3pm. A very enjoyable mid winter days fishing in beautiful surroundings.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Mild breezy mostly cloudy day. River rising steadily though little colour. It looked good for a couple of barbel but no sign of them all day. Lost a good chub to a hook pull early in afternoon and suffered the same fate with another later on. And that was it!

Another perfect day, warm/overcast, no wind, decent flow, bit of colour etc. Using the tried and trusted pellet/feeder landed 4 barbel and 1 chub, all of average size, around 7.5-8lb for the barbel, 3lb for the chub.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub