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4 Trout, 13 Grayling

Fly Fishing, golden headed buzzers/ Nymphs. All caught in the lower pool.

13 Chub

Great fishing, I now know where chub go on summer holiday ....and they love their meat!!
As previously mentioned..... banks today were the Eiger ,I manufactured my own safety ropes anchored to my van but literally fell over virtually each descent/ascent. I was Bambi on ice !! Im black and blue but fishing was great .Barbel came on ledgered pellets ,chub trotted meat.
Also as previously mentioned don't go in either field if wet even if dry beforehand. I got well and truly stuck and spent a long walk and 2 hours to find a very kind fella , who, on a Saturday night , helped me out of my predicament...Thank you Robert and your tractor!!!

4 Barbel, 40 Chub

3 Trout

Fished lower down the beat. Caught on drys and nymph. Fish looking up in the morning and harder as the weather got worse.

8 Trout

Terrible weather. One fish on a dry.

1 Trout

Swim feeder and ledger. Sweet corn caught most.

4 Barbel, 16 Chub

River was flowing well after rainfall. Fished during frequent heavy downpours. (I suspect there's been little water in it until now.) Only fished the upper reaches out of curiosity. Very little fly life coming off. Managed to provoke one rise to a dry and a decent little fish had a go at my bright pink indicator while nymphing! But landed zero fish.
Will probably try the lower reaches for Sewin next time I manage to get up there. Lovely place to fish.

This is clearly a well looked after section. There's a wide variety of swims and access to them is generally good.
There's a short but steep climb up a footpath to get back to your car which gets the blood pumping a bit.
The lower end of the beat seems to be slightly deeper and slower whilst the upstream end is shallower and carries more pace. We opted for a couple of swims towards the upstream end.
The river held more colour than it had done in the previous few days and had also come up a bit. The fishing was steady rather than spectacular with Chub caught regularly on both straight lead and on the float. An early Barbel hinted that we might be in for a really good day but alas that was the only one.

1 Barbel, 22 Chub, 1 Other

Not the easiest access to the river with many swims overgrown never the less I did manage two Barbel and three decent Chub all on scaled down hooks and 6mm spicy sausage bellets all caught before 7.30am in the morning hardly a knock for the rest of the day. Long walk up the hill keeps you fit.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub