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Nothing caught and no bites... not really surprising as this really is a spot better fished in lower water conditions - rather than the dropping flood we arrived to... Never mind. I'll be interested to see how the Courtfield anglers did on the same day as there's some much better high water swims up there...

Arrived to find river high and rising could only access about 15 yards of bank fished for about 2 hours lost several items of end tackle then left. Two anglers no fish.

River clear and cold. No fish caught, but learned a few things from the session.
Will return in summer!

Tough day with the cold weather and the pace of the water. Spent most of the day on the float and picked off a few (lost more than I care to remember), and moved across to the feeder for the afternoon/evening. Brief feeding spell around 5pm meant we had a few bites in quick succession.

Best Chub 3lb 9oz, and another similar. Rest around a pound or so. One trout of maybe 3lb (fantastic looking fish) but rest about a pound.

7 Trout, 9 Chub

Still not fishable, water had receded slightly.

Pretty well unfishable after all of the rain. no fish caught

Up to 3lb

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Not much boat traffic...to be precise none.....sometimes you have to fish in the pouring rain and gusting winds to remind yourself why it is not always one of your better decisions to have a go whatever!!
The river though was in good shape though and gently rising prior to the onslaught of water on its way the following day.
We caught plenty of small Barbel on the feeder with a couple on the float plus a small Brown Trout to keep us happy on a testing day to say the least..

30 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

4 barbel and a good size chub around 5lb mark. All fishing a slight crease against the choppy rapids.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub