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Almost exactly 1 year ago I fished this beat in torrential rain and the river rising rapidly, what a difference a year makes!! Blimey it was HOT.
Arrived at beat about 4:30 am after 5 hour drive and a couple of hours kip in a service station car park. Fished the gravel bar at the bottom of beat 4 and the pool following at the top of beat 5. Started fishing about 5.30 good chub first cast followed by 3 more Chub and a Barbel (5lb 8oz)by 10am. (Also lost 1 chub and a Barbel) All fish fell to pellet apart from the biggest chub (4lb 3oz) which fell to rolling meat. After the sun got up the water died. Walked the length of beat 5 trying various swims without success. Back to beat 3 in the afternoon which is faster water, plenty of Salmon showing but no joy. Back to the gravel bar for the evening but the extreme heat and low water conditions had put paid to anymore action.
Lovely beat in the right conditions but yesterday was just extreme.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished 4am till 11, then too hot, fish for most part covered in lice and quite slimey, perhaps late spawning?

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

river slow and not fishing well

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Shad

5 Chub, 1 Other

despite good looking conditions river fished poorly

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

not fishing well

3 Chub

1 Barbel

Beautiful day, some salmon showing. One of our party lost an estimated ten pound silver fish on Beat 5.

River in fine form, fish everywhere. Syndicate member had a fish of 20lb this morning. I hooked something on beat 3 on a small cascade this evening. Put a good bend in the rod for a few seconds​. All I managed were 3 shad for the day.

3 Other