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A good day's fishing for two of us at Foy Bridge, generally using rolling lead technique and luncheon meat. Although the water level was low I think the recent rain had refreshed it. Plenty of rock plateaux exposed but walkable to the runs. 26 chub to 4-5 lbs and 6 barbel to similar size, mostly in the swim about halfway down the beat I'd say - between two natural weirs. All but one appeared to be in good condition despite numerous lice. We hadn't seen barbel repeatedly leaping and flicking vigorously in the air before so wondered if this was trying to shake lice off.

6 Barbel, 26 Chub

FIRST OF ALL IF YOU ARE AGED OR A LITTLE DODGY ON YOUR LEGS ME THE FIRST AND MY PAL THE SECOND DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRY AND FISH THE WOODED AREA. SPENT A HOUR WALKING UP APTLY NAMED HEART BREAK HILL ONLY TO FIND THE PATH IN THE WOODS TOO DODGY TO WALK DOUBLY SO IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WET. SO AN HOUR WALKING BACK . DONT KNOW WHY THE DIRECTION SEND YOU THROUGH THE HOUSE GARDEN ,UP SOME STAIRS THEN VERY STEEP HILL WHEN THERE IS A PERFECTLY GOOD FOOT PATH OPPOSITE THE SEWAGE GATE BY PASSING ALL OF THOSE OBSTACLES? WE SETTLED IN THE FIRST EASY SWIM BY THE HUT CAUGHT 5 SMALL CHUB ALL DAY SAID WE WOULD PACK AT 6 ON THE DOT ROD PULLED ROUND AND A 9LB BARBEL SAVED THE DAY .

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

fly fishing, water low and warm, perfect for chubs, all released.

30 Chub

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Barbel, 11 Chub

Around 13 small (0.5lb) wild carp, 1 minnow.

14 Other

River on its bones making fish location easier. A bit of streamer weed which was nice. Love this short boundary with accessible swims though rope still useful if you are on your own. Basically wading and waggler using hemp/corn for the chub and had 1 barbel on it- 2' deep! Spotted some barbel in a slightly deeper gully with faster water and had another 3 beautifully conditioned barbel to about 7lb on meat in fairly short succession. Canoes about -lots grounding but fish don't seem to mind them as good dace rising all day - surprised only had 2 on corn on a 14. Saw some lovely dace plus chublets and fish i could not identify upstream from the bridge on the upstream side - could they be shad? The dace were flashing all the time as was a shoal of small barbel on the downstream side - beautiful to see. Lots of wildlife - about 20 kites in a group in the morning and egrets/herons walking the far bank shallows.
Beautiful day - pleasure to be there.

4 Barbel, 14 Chub, 2 Other

Fished just for the evening in the same swim as on Friday and had the same result. The fish were around the same size as well although the second barbel was a bit smaller at around 4lb.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

4 Chub