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3 barbel to around 5/6 lbs and 1 chub

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

What a difference a day makes !!!
The river had dropped overnight and the chocolate brown colour had gone to be replaced by a pleasing greyish green and the air temperature was up several degrees. We felt confident and doubled up in one swim.
A lovely 8lbs barbel first cast and the bites continued at regular intervals. 8 barbel in total - five over 8 lbs with the best 8.12 lbs plus three over 6lbs. Also one chub of 4lbs. A great day on our favourite W&U stretch!

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was a chocolate brown colour but at a decent level. We fished several swims and used a variety of baits. Only one bite between us all day, one barbel about 6lbs on a Vortex baits pellet. A tough day but at least it stayed dry.

1 Barbel

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Chub

Fished slack at bottom of stretch and had a couple of bites but no fish.....then despite my best attempts at avoiding it, the 3rd loss of gear to the "snag" I decided to move up to the middle of the beat.
All caught on spam....some straight lead, some feeder. Getting regular bites on hair pellet but no fish....assume chub. A change of tactic would have caught the chub, but stuck it out for Barbel. All in all a pleasant last day for me. Roll on next season.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Pleasant day, river high and coloured, just a single Chub caught close in on meat.

1 Chub

My alarm at waking up to snow on Saturday morning proved to be justified. The river temp was 5.8 having been 10 degrees only 2 weeks previous. So this coupled with the overnight frost trumped the nice looking flow and colour in the river and we really struggled. Fished the bottom 2 slacks and 4 swims further up with GB and maggot feeders with all manner of hookbaits to no avail. Both chub fell to JC on straight lead and meat from swims with nothing fed. The cold rain scared us off before 1600. One last go next week.....

2 Chub