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Second day on the Creel and what a difference a day makes, temperature fell lots with dull misty and cold conditions to greet us that morning, even so we enjoyed good sport although as you would expect not to the heights of the previous day, tactics were the same and if there was a lesson to be learnt then don't fish the same swims on consecutive days, a rest is probably best.

9 Barbel, 8 Chub

Had a good day on a new beat which we were expecting to find slow as we did not know the areas that produced.
Arrived at lunchtime and met Mr Richards who we must say thank you again to. His taxi service is something even us younger and fitter anglers were glad that we utilised! We would urge anyone fishing this beat to take advantage of this and he is a lovely chap as well.
We got down to the river and walked the stretch. We fancied the upstream part of the beat in the faster water. We rolled some meat to start with and had 2 chub and 1 barbel. We finally settled in a swim on pellet and bomb and began to pick of barbel steadily all evening.
This is a lovely beat with great views of the garden opposite although this could be busy and loud during the summer months and weekends. Will definitely be back!!

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

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2 Chub

The top swim is live with gush, they are mostly small though including some very young fish. Good fun, not for you if you are in search of bigger fish. Handy swim for float trotting too, and plenty of small fish turns to be had there.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

We all used feeders with groundbait, boilies or pellets or meat for bait. I liked this venue, as did the other two I went with. I spoke to the game keeper and he was very helpful and a nice chap. I would go back to this venue.

14 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fished wooded section 2nd to end peg. Did not start fishing until 2 o'clock and caught all fish late on in the last two hours. All fish of good size barbel 6-8lb and chub 3-5lb. Thanks to Don for his help and guidance.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

18.00 to 21.00hrs Top end of Leggs Meadow, banded 16mm Marine Halibut on simple free-sliding light leger with 18 inch hooklength fished about 15 feet out. 15lb main line, 10lb hook-length both ESP, size 8 hook and 2lb test curve rod meant I could lift the barbel off bottom before going into and under weed. I lost no tackle. Catapult fed loose small pellets and cracked marine pellets lightly at 15min intervals. 2 Chub around 3 to 4lb then 4 barbel in 5 to 7lb size and a quickly weighed Barbel of 10lb 9oz just at last light. No activity in last 30mins. Looks like the anticipated September Barbel season has started!

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished from 5.30pm. All fish caught on 10mm pellets with freebies catapulted in periodically. First barbel of the session lost and then action steadily through the evening. Best fish included ones of 9.2, 9.3, 9.9, 10.2.
One of our favourite beats. Nice to meet Rudy.

13 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Rather warm sunny day, used the swims approx 100 yards past the woodland walk. Gorgeous accessible swim, wonderful wildlife on display. Challenging swim, lively flow and much weed on bottom. Needed to be able to cast past halfway across river, not clear enough to target areas of clear gravel,therefore an element of luck in avoiding the weed. Used standard feeder tactics as trotting would not have been possible in this swim, used boilie hook baits. Challenging to discern the bites sometimes (as opposed to weed effects on the line)and lost some good fish in the weedy conditions but were able to land 6 barbel (to 9lbs). The most experienced and expert barbel angler in our party was able to cope with the conditions better than the rest of us and out-fished us. Thank you for a glorious day.

6 Barbel

3 x Barbel and 2 x Big Chub

3 Barbel, 2 Chub