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Tough day in high and very coloured water conditions . Normally good when the river is up but the water temperature was still very cold so a bit of a gamble and alas no fish today. Still a lovely place to spend a day on the river.

Didn't fish.
River very high, banks very slippery and still raining first thing, so gave it a miss.

8 Chub

3 Chub

An absolutely stunning stretch of river in a frozen landscape today. Christmas Card fishing and hugely enjoyable, but there was little good will from the fish. One serious wrap around which went nowhere, a few baits taken but nothing whatsoever hooked. Meat, cheese, bread, oiled pellets, casters. Nothing worked. Freezing for first two hours, and final hour of the day. Would imagine river temps were colder?
Lovely to meet and chat with land owner. Interesting and friendly gent.
Look forward to meeting up with him again, when skates and ice saws aren't required.

2 Chub

Caught a small chub about 1.30 pm on luncheon meat, at the bottom field. Half an hour later hooked a PB Chub of 5lb 11oz. Again on Luncheon meat. Really pleased. I have to thank the fellow fisherman who told me he was getting bites on large pieces of luncheon meat, saying he was after Barbel and thought it was small chub. So I went back to my swim and changed to luncheon meat. I started in the same manner, so I reduced the size of the bait, and made the hair shorter. It worked.

2 Chub

Very last minute booking for me as i had a spare day to take from work and the weather was looking good, so i thought..
This was a new beat to me, the beat i wanted was booked up and chose this one as it had been very prolific over the season.
As usual i chose the wrong bank (Mordiford side) although the river was done 2-3ft the usual fishing spots were still underwater, so pegs were very few and far between, anyways i found one eventually, the river was looking good although it was very pacy i did manage to find a few slacks, but unfortunately not a bite, with skys opening up from cloudy to bright sun shine i decided to pack in early and spent the rest of the day exploring the beat on the opposite site (which looked a lot more Barbel'y) ready for next year.
Thanks to the WUF and the land owners for giving us great access to a great river and all the nature that comes with it.
I'll be back next year.
1st blank of the season.

2 Trout, 24 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub