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Fantastic Day on my favourite beat. River was at 1.3m when I arrived. I Was after an elusive December Barbel and today I had 5. Biggest was 11Ib 15oz and rest were between 5Ib to 8Ib. Fantastic end to 2024.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Avery pleasant day....
Banks and trees have taken a beating after recent storms. Had a couple of chub early doors then nothing . Many thanks to Steffan who advised on a maybe better swim. Plenty of mixed size chub followed and then at dusk, of course, a real beauty of a barbel gave..." me a grab your rod quick !!"moment!! Nice way to end the day and the year on the bank.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Enjoyable day sadly no fish.

Nice day out on the river unfortunately a blank lost one to a hook pull.

Took a gamble given both weather and river conditions but chub only - but still a pleasant day

6 Chub

Blanked! Was fishing for pike and dead baited in the slacks, but river was high and muddy. First visit to this section and it is a nice beat. Good number of spots you can fish from. Note to future anglers, when you cross the little bridge over the ditch, be careful…. Dropped my chair into the stream and it wasn’t easy to retrieve!

A tough day, river high but falling.
Air temperature 7 degrees C
Largest chub 4lb 3oz taken a rod length out

3 Chub

1 Barbel

Really tough day, lots of water pushing through still after the flood, struggled to hold bottom with 5oz leads. Decided to try a dead bait in a slack for the last couple of hours and managed snare a pike, lovely clean fish undoubtedly never caught before

1 Pike

A blank day, much too cold, no action at all.