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Fly fishing for pike - river very high and rising - difficult conditions very coloured water with large amounts of debris coming down the river. Looks like it could be a great beat though!

arrived at 8.30am to a river up and rising,gale force winds and heavy showers.cooked a lovely breakfast then decided to cut our losses and start our 4hr journey home at 11.trips like this make the good days after 8hr round trip even sweeter!

A days Chub fishing using just good old bread and mash on a perfect winters river. Started at the top of the beat and despite several moves I only had one bite which promptly snagged me solid! A move into the wood and the bottom of the beat produced 6 Chub up to near 5lb. A further lost fish which I just could not stop reaching a bush upstream left me wondering what it was, after a lot of thought I think it may have been a Carp. A lovely day on the river, very enjoyable.

6 Chub

No signs of fish activity but very nice stretch of the river. Will be returning in the summer.

1 Pike

Like yesterday, unfortunately not a bite to be had despite trying different methods/swims. At this time of year, hardly surprising but a lovely day out none the less. Same moan; more rafts of freshly cut branches dumped in the river and
forcing line to be hastily wound in . I would have thought there should be some sort of restriction on dumping this sort of waste in the river ?

heavy ledger, with meat

1 Trout, 6 Chub

Whilst it was a cold day, thought I might be able to winkle out a chub or two on paste/meat/maggot, fishing in the deeper margins , but to no avail. Not a touch, but a lovely day out. I would like to have a moan; there was obviously some kind of clearance work going on further upstream , fishery work perhaps and annoyingly large rafts of freshly cut branches came down stream all day clearly showing freshly cut saw marks. Surely this sort of waste can be easily put on the bank and burned / disposed of, instead of using this beautiful river as a dustbin ? Perhaps W+UF could use their influence to prevent this kind of behaviour.

1 Chub

River swollen and coloured - estimate 7-8 feet up on normal levels though level dropped out slightly through the day. Frosty start but glorious sunshine later, fished 4 slackish areas for pike and barbel in hope rather than optimism. Lovely fishery very good access, excellent directions but nothing showing - packed up mid afternoon.