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An excellent days fishing on a rising river. Happy Days!

10 Barbel, 8 Chub

tough days fishing, only a few swims available - & desperately needs some maintenance, some swims are already too overgrown to fish anymore. all fish to ledgered pellet

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

river settled and conditions good but fishing hard. Need more swims being cut-out, otherwise, soon it will be unfishable. fish came out on fellet feeder.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

hard fioshing, most chob caught on touch ledgering meat, barbel on pellets. very overgrown, needs tidying-up.

30 Barbel, 7 Chub

The river was on the rise for all of the day, it must of come up by at least 4 feet whilst I was on the bank. Having tried several swims in the field near to the layby, I failed to catch a single fish. The swims were quite difficult to access as the amount of growth on the willow trees was very restrictive for casting, a very frustrating day.

Great conditions … overcast and showers with water level just about perfect.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

4 Barbel, 22 Chub

River was low and clear, but an overcast day that was dry on arrival, but soon started raining and didn't stop until I left at 17.30. Fished the first swim opposite the houses and started with double hair-rigged sweetcorn with a 30g open ended feeder holding bottom. First cast saw a 1lb fiesty chub trying to pull rod off its rest. The next 3 fish were barbel of 1lb and then 2 around 6-7lb, not a bad first hour.

A quiet spell on corn meant a change was coming, but on lifting the rod without a sign of a bite, only to find a fish hooked that tore off downstream, that nothing was going to stop, it stripped a good 50m of line before finally breaking the hooklength - I presume a foolhooked barbel.

Corn was being ravaged by chublets (all under 1lb) so a change to garlic spam immediately attracted 2 further 6-7lb barbel before at about 3pm a PB barbel of 11-04 fell to the same method.
Bites dried up towards the end probably because rain made groundbait too sloppy to stay in feeder, so feed reduced?

Absolutely soaked by the end but an unforgettable day on a great venue.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Barbel 9lb 3oz
Chub to 3lb

1 Barbel, 25 Chub

4 Barbel, 36 Chub, 1 Other