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14 Chub

The river was coloured with recent rain. A few hours fishing no fish caught on this occasion.

Lovely afternoon. Strong wind. Fast flowing but clear water. No greyling, but 3 small brown trout caught and released upstream nymphing on Red Neck PTN. Two larger fish dropped on upper section.

3 Trout

Strong wind, fast flowing water but clear. No greyling caught. One brown trout caught and released when upstream nymphing at the end of the afternoon.

1 Trout

Water was coloured first thing but cleared throughout the day. Started French nymphing, pink tags and Duracells but the trout were having all of it early, all were kept wet and released ranging from fingerlings to one just sub 2lbs I guess.

I changed out to dries early morning, no action whatsoever. Until just before close out on light at the end of the day, took two grayling on a red tag dry fly and blue dun. Both in faster water than I would expect between the white water and the foam lines below rapids. I couldn’t figure them all day so assuming they are all grouped up and holding.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 Barbel, 15 Chub

After 12hrs of nothing I was completely resigned to a blank, then in the last 40mins absolute carnage broke loose! 3 of the barbel were around the 8lb mark, one was around 7lb and I also had a smaller one for good measure. Standard feeder tactics in the woods accounted for all the fish.

5 Barbel

1 Barbel

4 Barbel

Very picturesque fishery although it must be said the car journey down to the beat is tricky due to steep slopes and narrow tracks. The river runs at a medium pace and the weed is low meaning both trotting and ledgering are possible. However the day that we were there the barbel proved elusive despite us trying most swims in the downs stream section. As a consolation we did manage to pull out some lovely looking and hard fighting Chub to 5 lb on trotted meat.

12 Chub