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Conditions perfect. Water 2ft 4ins. No fish caught although we saw 2 fish during the day. Colin the Ghillie excellent as always. Very enjoyable day.

Spinning, river fairly high and coloured. Two small Brown Trout on pink Flying C, both in lovely condition and safely returned. Colin the Ghillie most helpful as always!

2 Trout

Tough going on a normally prolific beat. The barbel seemed reluctant to feed, other than for a brief period in the late afternoon. The overnight frost probably had something to do with this, as the river itself seemed in perfect condition. We both caught barbel, just not in the numbers we expected for the conditions.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

River still above normal height, fast and just over the cribs. To fish midstream meant big feeders (4-5oz) and moving around to find a fish. Enjoyable day but fish hard to come by.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

A very cold and crisp morning giving way to a very warm and pleasant early afternoon, the river level about 6 feet above normal and still flowing quite fast.
The level did drop a few inches during the day but all the usual tactics, baits and sneaking about didn't pay off and yielded no fish.

River very clear, struggled all day. No sign of barbel but my first grayling saved the day. Fantastic stretch of river.

Started near the head of the Island on the bend in two beautiful looking pegs, with steady flow on the inside and pacy water towards middle for pellet feeder attack. Unfortunately although looking perfect, little or no action other than trout and grayling on float. No signs on feeder so started leap frogging back down the stretch on the feeder and pellet, meat, maggots, bollies etc. Only proper fish being a 4lb Chub caught in middle of stretch on feeder and meat as light was fading, although whole day was dull and overcast. No other anglers (or Barbel for that matter) seen on three days fishing on WUF waters in spite of near perfect conditions.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

Having struggled on Middle Hill Court the previous day we optimistically thought Holme Lacy would produce the goods as in previous trips. Sadly, upon arrival and observing the river level our hopes dived. Once again struggled to hold bottom in most places despite using 7oz of lead! The amount of debris coming down river made presenting a bait very challenging. All four anglers blanked including Birthday Boy P, who was hoping to catch his first Barbel. Better luck next time I guess. Still one of my favourite beats.

River a bit higher than we had anticipated but still fishable with heavy feeders. By the end of the day it had dropped further and although still fast look spot on. Regrettably the fish didn't seem to realise this and only one chub came to the net. Nevertheless the scenery, weather and company were perfect and Colin came along for a chat later on, so all in all a very pleasant day.

1 Chub

Afraid nothing caught between the three of us. Second visit to this beat with good access and easy parking.