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Lovely day on a cracking beat. 2 small pike landed.

2 Pike

Action was very slow despite a falling river which looked like good conditions, perhaps still a little cold? Grayling was just under a pound and the two chub were 3lb 7oz and 5lb 3oz - the biggest was a new chub PB for me so can't grumble even if the bites were few and far between. Biggest chub on feeder with pellet and smaller one on a little ssg link ledger in a back eddie with bread flake as bait. Grayling taken by my wife on maggot feeder. Very nice spot to fish Foy Bridge and will be back again next season at some point. Thank you to the beat owner and to WUF.

1 Grayling, 2 Chub

The river was fining down from it's recent high levels but very cold. Fished close to the car park trotting maggot along a crease. Looked perfect and low and behold I managed to hook and lose three good fish after about an hour. I should have moved then but felt there were fish in front of me. Unfortunately after fishing hard all day I only managed three chub to about 3 lbs. Still worth the journey for such a beautiful river but next time I will be more mobile.

3 Chub

The river had dropped overnight and felt that we might find a few fish in the deeper sections at the top, unfortunately 3 anglers were already in this section, settled for 2 swims at the start of the woods, tried all baits without joy.

My friend had one chub of about 3.5lb. I was using float ledgered deadbait for the Pike. Had 4 fish of approximately: 5lb, 9lb, 9lb and 11lb.
As in a previous session, the Pike went frantic at around 2:00pm for an hour when I had three of my fish. The last came at around 4:30pm. A good session, though the Pike were a little smaller than the average size.

1 Chub, 4 Pike

Water starting to fine down but still well up. Hazy sunshine, water temp. still only 5c. Air got up to 10c, no wind. Went right down to lower limit. First cast only 3ft from the side, a barbel at 8lb 8oz. Mate then had a barbel and a chub all on halibut pellit. Moved up to Rope Pool opposite trees had a barbel and a chub.
Moved again to the upper limit and had a barbel and 5 more chub. All fish came to halibut pellet with a 4oz feeder. Water still cold, move on to Courtfield for the last day.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

A cool day. The river looked in good condition and it certainly looks different in the Winter. Two nice barbel caught mid day in the swim below the power lines.

2 Barbel

River high coloured no fish for me tried pellet, maggot, meat.

Two days fishing on this stretch. River very high and chocolate brown on the first day. Dropped at least 3 feet overnight and less colour. Also overnight frost, so conditions very much against us. We managed to land six barbel up to 8lb 9oz and lost three more. Also landed a couple of Chub. Lovely stretch previously fished this stretch in September totally different conditions.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Difficult day, not unfishable but the river was high & moving through very quickly due to the heavy rain from earlier in the week, tried several different swims, spending a few hours in each & trying the usual method & selection of baits for the Barbel which have worked for us previously, nothing caught which we put down to the low water temperature more than any of the other factors.