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A nice mild day, with the river carrying a few inches of extra water. Fished by the hut for eleven barbel and three chub, almost all to pellet.
A great days fishing, on a lovely fishery. Thanks to Colin Richardson for his advice.

A nice mild overcast day, with the river carying about a foot of extra water. We started in a nice looking swim a couple of fields upstream of the brook, and fished for three houres for one bite (which I missed).
We then decided to move back downstream to a couple of swims in the slow steady water below the shallows (about half way up the first field). This made an immediate difference, with a nice barbel within ten minutes coming to Lukes rod. We finished the day with four barbel between us, all caught on pellet, weighing around five to seven and a half pounds.

I had a lovely catching loads of good chub and a couple of barbel on paste baits.

Lots and chub and a couple of barbel on paste bait and pellet. Great fun.

4 barbel: 4lb 10oz, 4lb 10oz, 5lb 10oz, 5lb 12oz all on pellets.
5 chub 1lb-2lb 8oz all on meat.

A lovely sunny day with the river in good condition if a little dirty after the recent rain. Another enjoyable day landing 4 chub up to 5.5lb all caught on luncheon meat.

Our first time on this stretch we had a look round and started fishing about 12.30 pm on the upper part of the beat.
The river was fairly coloured and the current was gradually picking up pace throughout the afternoon as a result of the incessant rain.
The fishing was fairly slow but bites came steadily, and we ended with 9 barbel with a biggest at 9lb 12oz and 7 ranging from 7 to 8 1/2lb, plus a few chub.
The average size of the barbel was higher than we've experienced on other beats and most appeared noticeably deeper bodied, but this was possibly more to do with the time of year than the beat.
Yet again great fun, stunning looking fish and infinitely better than working.

Although Colin was unable to meet us on the day his advice on the phone was very helpful. Access to the river exellent, fished at Salmon hut. My 12 year old son had two Barbel 5 to 7 lbs, I also had two 5 to 8lbs, all caught on hair rigged pellet and in superb condition. The heavy rain did't dampen our spirits. The beat is superb and we will return as soon as possible to fish the rest of the beat.

Slow fishing, started at the lower end but didn't have a bite. Moved up to the top end around 2pm, lost a rig in a snag and on second cast within 5 minutes hooked in to a nice looking 5lb barbel. Only fish of the day but still a great day out - thanks WUF.

A lovely bright day after a cold start - but the fish weren't very cooperative (or more likely we were incompetent): 9 barbel and 3 chub between us. The highlight of my day was first ever close encounter with a Wye otter!