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Extremely low water levels and heavy weed made fishing very difficult and slow, at least it give us time to enjoy the beautiful countryside and wildlife.

2 Chub

Just an evening session. First visit to this stretch so spent some time looking around before dropping into a swim opposite the house. Caught two barbel and a chub on pellet feeder and krill boilies and lost another barbel when the hooklink snagged a rock on the take. That seemed to kill the swim as bites stopped.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 63 Chub

Tremendous amount of weed in the river, fished the island swim at the far end of the stretch in the morning, had 11 baby barbel to 2lb. Lasted until mid day until there was too many canoes coming down to keep a line in the water, had a really enjoyable time. Thanks WUF.

11 Barbel

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

5 Chub

Fished all accessible pegs,some small chub in faster water at top of beat,4 nice chub lower down in the slow section.Found a peg near boathouse and had 3 barbel in the afternoon.As expected river was very low and sluggish but felt we did well given the conditions.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

The water level was predictably very low so much so you could see the bottom along most of the stretch with one or two deeper pegs, however the pegs were so high on the bank unfortunately my landing net failed to reach the water! Having found some rapids further up the stretch i thought this was my best offer for the day, although it was hard going from the off i did manage to catch two Chub between 4-5lb but it soon went quiet after that. After attempting several other swims without success, i decided to call it a day and head to the nearest pub.
Thanks WUF and land owners for obtaining great access to a great river and all the wildlife that it holds.
I'll be back again soon!

2 Chub

Conditions were against us yet again but nonetheless being the rugged, adventurous, brave (stupid) guys we are, we decided to give it a bash. As expected, and despite choosing the faster pegs we struggled in the morning session so retired to our base in Fownhope for pork pie and watch Wolves beat Southampton. And another nap in the garden.

Freshly rested and with three points in the bag, we returned to the river and it came to life for one of us mid-afternoon with 3 barbel and a mini chub. These were taken in the deeper, faster water on the v shaped peg (you’ll know what I mean when you get there). Some chub and dace came off some of the other pegs too so not entirely a wasted day.

And it could never be a wasted day on such a beautiful spot.

Oh and don’t be worried about the nosey cows in the field –they’re behind an almost invisible fence which one of us found out was electrified by accidentally touching it with an extended landing net.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub