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Hard day fishing 10 chub between us again no barbel

10 Chub

Static bait, mainly luncheon meat, roving tactics. All gosh from bottom of beat where efforts were focused.

Conditions summer low, bit of colour (vis ~3-4ft). Stable all day.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Barbel, 17 Chub

Normal river level for this time of year and a bit of colour in the water. Mild day and cloudy.Several good chub on the float and touch leger. Used hemp and sweetcorn to feed and luncheon meat and cheese on the hook.

12 Chub

13 Barbel, 29 Chub, 1 Other

River a bit low. Used PVA mesh with ledger all day. Many bites missed and almost certain that we lost 2 barbel.
Very enjoyable day. Started at 10 am and finished at 4pm

15 Chub

Fishing very slow so tried 5 swims to find the fish. Barbel and one chub next to the island on consecutive casts but that proved to be a false dawn but on reflection should have persevered in the faster water. All fish to feeder tactics with pellet or meat on the hook. Nothing on the float rod and one other was an eel.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

Chub bonanza as usual.
All caught on float fished corn, luncheon meat and various krill and halibut drilled baits. Exactly the same on feeder. Catching fish from first cast at around 5.30am through to last cast at around 3.30pm.
Average size of the chub was around 2.5lbs with best fish around 4.5lbs but didn't take time to weigh any of them. Overall catch numbers was estimated at well over 100 on the two rods. That works out at around 12 fish per hour which is a low estimate, it was extraordinary and, dare I say, became almost boring.
Unfortunately no barbel and these were our primary target.

100 Chub

we fished beat 3 for the morning with just 1 chub each...moved to beat 2 for the evening resulting in 3 more chub....we found that on both beats access was very limited due to overgrown banks making it hard to find swims

5 Chub

3 Barbel, 15 Chub