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15 Barbel 9 Chub on pellet and boilie.

19 Barbel and 2 Chub all on boilie. Biggest 9lb. 6 fish lost through cut offs. Landed a few fish with hooks still in them. Certainly a long old walk.

Caught 1 trout on worm.

Excellant venue. 2 chub caught. Swims are what you make yourself, very overgrown. River fining down after flood. Will be back again.

2 barbel, 6 chub. Most fish caught on rolling meat, fishing
was very hard. Barbel not feeding for some reason. Not my favourite beat, very poor return for 3 rods fishing hard all day. Never mind, some days are like this, always next time.

First time at Middle Hill Court, and a very enjoyable afternoon in beautiful surroundings it was! Fished from 3.30 til 9.30pm, starting at the very top of the beat, and began catching straight away with all falling to paste-wrapped pellet (for once the mighty meat did not do the business as predicted by G.S)...had the place to ourselves, so working our way down slowly, ended the day with 8 barbel to 8 1/2lbs, (avg 5-6lbs) with several lost along the way on barbless hooks - including one crafty chub who did a great job of outwitting a certain chub expert ;) had such a good time i don't think we even made it half way down the beat, canoe traffic was next to none, bailiff Adam very friendly and helpful, and highlight of the day was seeing a huge salmon clear the water right in front of us in the Vanstone pool - looked to be a hefty double. Great fun was had by all! Thanks WUF.

River at summer level, running clear. Day started mid beat, rod one 4lb 7oz chub, rod two 2lb 6oz chub, two rods no return. Picnic lunch at the hut table.
PM - rod one had Barbel 7lb 15oz & 8lb 7oz (Red Robin pellet) two nice fish in good condition, rod two small chub and dace on corn, again two rods no return.
Finished fishing at 6.30pm, Barbel were caught after 5.30pm
Hard days fishing, but an excellent beat, just needed two feet of extra water!!

Great location fished mainly the cottage beat. Parked at the bottom of the hill of doom! Not for the faint hearted on foot! Slow start main bulk of barbel and chub coming late afternoon to small hair rigged pellet. Not huge fish but great condition. The river keeper very helpfull. Would like to have explored the top island beats a little more, but a lot to go at for one day! Several huge salmon seen crashing around the lower beats!

Both rods fished below the orchard and caught 5 barbel between 5 and 8 pounds, 3 chub, two of 4 pounds and one of 3 pounds, and one trout of approx 1 pound. The barbel, one chub & trout were caught on luncheon meat, and the other two chub on sweetcorn. All fish were in very good condition as was the river.

Fished about two thirds of the way down the beat and found access to the waters edge quite difficult except from a couple of places due to the high banks. River fairly low and we didn't have a single bite until the evening when we caught one 5lb 2oz barbel on luncheon meat.