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Lost one good Barbel, the only bite I had. Will be back to try again.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

A nice stretch of river which was in good condition, the largest Barbel was 9.5 lb caught on feeder and sweetcorn. It was pretty hard going bite wise.

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished 8am to dusk 6.5lbs barbel in morning top of beat.5.5lbs 6.8lbs and 5lbs towards dusk on pellet, 4lbs chub to meat all towards the rock pool. Most fish taken tight to near bank. Conditions overcast with light rain. Mild temperatures 14 to 18 degree's. access very good to fishery swims fairly user friendly. Helpful advice from gamekeeper. Mink sighted close in.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Beautiful beat fairly easy access bit of a slog under foot when wet as it was but worth it.

Abundance of wildlife to watch. River was up with some colour looked spot on but was a struggle during the day, all fish taken in the last few hours of daylight on pellet feeder tactics.

Plenty of anglers on the opposite bank all good apart from one who decided to fish near enough directly opposite me.

Fished several swims during the day some more productive than others.

13 Barbel, 2 Chub

Four anglers travelled up from Oxfordshire, two of whom were looking to catch a barbel for the first time. Arriving just before lunchtime, river conditions were excellent, coloured and flowing following significant rain in the week before. Early signs were good for two of the group, settled in the first swim to the left of the tree line in the middle of the beat... they had a few fish immediately. The other two rods picked a swim further upstream, which despite looking promising delivered nothing. So around 3pm, they moved downstream below the other two where a few bites were to be had. All in all, 15 barbel were caught between four rods, along with a solitary modest chub. I was a little surprised by the lack of chub, I've also seen more eels on this beat when fishing it before (and I even tried luncheon meat on a number of casts, without a nibble!). However, all in all this will go down as a very good day's fishing as both of the newcomers were relieved of their barbel virginity. All fish fell to pellets below groundbait/pellet feeders. Surprisingly, given the excellent river conditions, there were no anglers on the far bank? So we had the stretch to ourselves which suited us just fine. Thanks to WUF, beat directions were great, we parked through the gate in the sweetcorn field, and subsequent access to the river was easy. I'm sure I said this the last time, but I can certainly see us coming back here in the future.

15 Barbel, 1 Chub

River in perfect condition, bit of colour still visible, started slowly with just 1 barbel.
Then switched on in afternoon. Had 4 small barbel about 1lb and the rest between 6lb & 8lb, the biggest had 3 hooks in its mouth which I removed. There seems to be a barbel population explosion this year, ive never caught so many small fish.
The biggest chub was about 3 1/2- 4lb. Fantastic day.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Nice place. River was down to about it's normal level for the time of year. Plenty of Commorants knocking about and a Mink. Parking is not great and a lot of anglers on the opposite bank. So if you don't get there early you are likely to struggle because those opposite will be fishing into your swim

3 Barbel

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

River still well up after last week's spate. Weather bright. Started fishing soon after 2.00 pm and had four barbel (and lost two) in the first three hours. It was quiet for the next hour and I was about to move to another swim when I caught another fish, so I stayed where I was. Probably a mistake as nothing else before darkness fell. All on pellet and feeder.

5 Barbel