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No fish caught but several salmon seen, numbers of Cormorants and Gooseanders. Wonderful day even though fishless looking forward to next season.

First time on WUF waters, picked a really nice day for a change. This is a lovely bit of water - managed to catch 7 barbel between 5lb and 7.12 all in excellent condition and boy do they scrap. Fished mainly with pellets and hemp. All in all a great days fishing and I'm off to Lower Ballingham tomorrow to round off a great trip so far.

All four rods caught total of six barbel and 8 chub. On site bailiff was very helpful.

1st of 3 days booked on Courtfield. Had problems and didn't get on the bank until 15.30 but still managed four barbel including a superbly conditioned 10.04, and also a brace of 5lb+ chub. All from Legg Meadow on elips pellets behind a groundbait feeder.

An overcast but not cold day we had planned to fish float and maggot until midday and ledger with big baits until dusk. We caught eight chub between us in the morning and six trout. The largest chub were close to 5 lbs. At about 12.30 debris started to come downstream. At first we thought this was clearance from an upstream bridge but it got worse. Huge islands over ten foot across with so much small debris in between that even float fishing became impossible. Ledgering was out of the question. It looked like a farmer upstream was clearing his fields of floodwater flotsam. We sat and waited until 4.00 and things had not improved so we packed up early and went home.

Luck varied between us from a blank to quite a few chub to 3lb, trotting maggots. Static baits on the bottom didn't produce this time.

Started well, catching a lovely 6:10 Barbel after 40 minutes or so, then the sun came out and the river seemed to switch off for the rest of the day, although I did catch the largest minnow I've ever seen. Therefore not a particularly productive day but good to be on the riverbank nonetheless.

One question: I'm an antisocial so-and-so and I don't really like fishing directly opposite other anglers. On the blurb sent when I booked the beat it says that a club has access to the opposite bank on the downstream end of this beat only. Yesterday there were three other anglers on the opposite bank at the upstream end of the beat (near power cables), which meant I couldn't really fish the best Barbel swims. Were they there illegally or does the literature need updating?
WUF Note: As far as we understand it, the club has access to the opposite bank on the lower part of the fishery. We will check with the owner to ensure that this is still the case. These could have been non club members with permission from the owner of the opposite bank of course, or they could have been fishing illegally. If you wish to guarentee nobody on the opposite bank, however, our advice is to book a double bank fishery.

One small roach and broken by a barbel was the total of the fishing action for the day. In glorious weather catching fish would have just been a bonus on such a beautiful location. Highlight of the day was the otter that swam past me less than ten feet away! A wonderful service from the Foundation. Will be back in the new season.

16 Barbel, 13 Chub on Meat and Pellet.

Started off with local landowner complaining aggressively about parking, as there is only room for one car and that was occupied. Targetted barbel but nothing caught. Continuous waves of dogwalkers and children on the opposite bank and in the river didn't help. Strongly advise not fishing on Sunday, especially if sunny.