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Tough going, not a bite all day.
Water bitterly cold due to snow melt, from what we saw even the Kingfisher blanked !!

Blanked for the first time this season!!!!

Had a mobile approach as thought I might have to locate the fish - tried 7 swims but to no avail. The beat has either been cleared at bankside or the vegetation has just died away. This is a lovely beat with at least 10 swims to go at.

Water temperature was 9.4C but there was just no activity in the river - it just felt like nobody was home!!!

River was very clear which combined with sunny intervals during the day made the fishing slow. Most fish were caught on bread but were hold up close to snags as you'd expect. Boilies and meat did catch fish but trotted bread flake over liquidised bread out performed static approaches. Best chub was 5lb 3oz caught first thing on trotted bread flake.

11 Chub

Tough day, cold overnight with a frost so not ideal conditions. Fished the deeper sections managed 2 chub between us.

2 Chub

No fish caught unfortunately, river was still slightly high. Must have put off the fish.

With the weather having turned for the colder we knew water temps would be dropping and the chances of a late season barbel would be fairly remote, especially after a couple of frosts, but we decided on a day on this lovely beat anyway. As suspecting the fishing was tough although a few chub succumbed to roving tactics.

5 Chub

River pushing through but dropping through the daytemp of 9.3 deg,difficult day a lot of leaves dislodging feeder.Small chub of about 2lb just before dark saved a blank.

1 Chub

Good day , conditions looked good for a few Barbel , started of with some nice chub up to 5lb , managed 1 Barbel towards the end of the day , all fell to meat . Fished 6 different swims along the stretch .

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

This was to be a pleasant afternoon session on one of my favourite beats. However, it turned out to be very frustrating, starting with an enormous tackle tangle, despite carefully packing my rod and gear into its sleeve, and ending with the only bite I had at sunset, from a chub which snagged me, losing all my terminal tackle. Ah well......

Very pleasant day! Shame no barbel but 3 decent chub

3 Chub