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River slightly up on its normal summer level and carrying more colour than normal so we were quietly confident. Finished with 9 barbel & 3 chub between us with a further 3 or 4 barbel lost and a number of bites missed, all the bites were big looping dropbacks which required a sweeping strike to connect with. All in all we should have done better given the conditions but still a cracking day out in fantastic surroundings!

Fished the lower end of the fishery. 9 barbel & 2 chub - best barbel 8 lbs plus. Lots of bottom weed which ended in one or two losses. Perhaps the most memorable part of the day was during the afternoon when we were caught in the most horrendous storm with lightning bolts hitting all around us. Needless to say we dropped the rods and took cover under our brollies. It didn't seem to put the fish off though!

2 barbel, 6 chub. Most fish caught on rolling meat, fishing
was very hard. Barbel not feeding for some reason. Not my favourite beat, very poor return for 3 rods fishing hard all day. Never mind, some days are like this, always next time.

River at summer level, running clear. Day started mid beat, rod one 4lb 7oz chub, rod two 2lb 6oz chub, two rods no return. Picnic lunch at the hut table.
PM - rod one had Barbel 7lb 15oz & 8lb 7oz (Red Robin pellet) two nice fish in good condition, rod two small chub and dace on corn, again two rods no return.
Finished fishing at 6.30pm, Barbel were caught after 5.30pm
Hard days fishing, but an excellent beat, just needed two feet of extra water!!

1 barbel 5Lbs 6ozs, 5 small chub, 3 dace, eels. River dropping by a foot snd colour improving over weekend. Several salmon moving.

River still a few feet above summer levels, didnt have that many bites, just had two Barbel all day around 5lbs each.

Three barbel (7lbs, 4lbs and 4lbs) and two chub (3lbs and 2lbs) - all caught on boilies.

3 small chub, one dace.

Looked good but fish not feeding as expected. Managed 13 Barbel between us up to 9lbs 4ozs all on elipse. Very high banks to the water so needed dog spikes for safety.

10 Barbel best 6lb, 2 chub