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Water up 4.5m so a hard day with river at or over the top of the banks. Found a reasonable slack and had bites all day.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

second day of a 3 day visit - the water level had fallen from the day before, but still another day under our brollies. Complete blank for both of us unfortunately, not even a twitch between us. The cattle in the field were a bit daunting - a mixture of bulls, cows plus their young - but they eventually won the intimidation stakes, and I moved my gear out of their way!

River at its limits in places and bursting its banks in others. Chucking it down with rain from the moment we got up. Did not fish.

Did not fish...had gone home the previous morning due to the state of the river

Wash off river in the fields and across the road

The water level was virtually level with the field, but we found a few spots close in to the bank where the flow was slower. 3 takes between us, but we were probably fishing over what was a week previously bankside vegetation, and as soon as we hit the bites everything went solid, and all 3 fish were lost. Took a while to find this spot, as the directions said to go down the only road signposted to the Hole in the Wall, but some joker must have turned the signpost around (it was at a crossroads)! Water level rose throughout the day, and by dusk the field was 50% under water. Note to my fishing buddy - PF from Midhurst - wear your wellies next time mate!

Very windy but mild conditions. found some fish feeding in the more secluded areas behind the big island.
had 3 commons all hard fighting immaculate fish. 8lb,14lb and 18lb(caught within 20seconds of casting out)

3 Other

Record reported floods during the day throughout mid, west and northern wales. Very grey, strangely warm and windy but no rain, with the river rising dramatically in just a couple of hours.
Very hard to get a line in and keep it in one spot. Less a case of "where are the fish?" and more a case of "where can I fish?". A couple of small areas of sheltered water but the river was pouring through and very murky. Huge fallen trees and dead sheep were amongst the debris streaming by faster than you could run. Not a nibble....

We arrived at the water and decided to analyse the stretch before getting our gear out of the van. Started the morning ,fishing a few pegs down from the upper limit. These pegs were unfishable after about 20 minutes due to the river level rising at such a fast rate.
Our friend and well known angler Chris Petter from Hampshire had the right idea of fishing the deeper part of the stretch at the lower limit. These pegs were snaggy but provided great fishing. Finishing the day with 11 barbel, largest of them at 9lb 10oz.

11 Barbel

River high when we arrived and rising very rapidly. Made the fishing very difficult and only a couple of places on whole stretch that you could fish. Barbel were feeding though and two of us managed 6 between us and lost quite a few more. Other two blanked.
Other fish were 1 eel and 1 dace

6 Barbel, 2 Other