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Only fished a few hours on an evening ticket
Caught 1 barbel of about 5lb on luncheon meat & cage feeder from the rope pool.

1 Barbel

1 Trout, 2 Barbel

River very low and nothing much moving. I saw a parade of nine goosanders - spectacular, but maybe they had something to do with the lack of fish.

A low and clear river and a day of bright sunshine is not normally conducive to a bumper catch. Sure enough Barbel were largely absent. There are a lot of Chub throughout this section though. Standing high on the bank it was possible to see very many fish cruising around. One angler fished the Lucky Stone whilst the other initially fished a little downstream of this initially before moving on to the lower field.

Tried a range of baits and tactics all resulting in Chub with many of these being between 4lb and 5lb. Only one Barbel was hooked but unfortunately not landed. The ‘others’ were three Roach which managed to take a 10mm pellet.

61 Chub, 3 Other

River too low

4 Trout

Fished off the boat on Fri 8th of July we had plenty of fish on the dries up the top end of the reservoir including some lovely wild browns up to 2lb. All fish returned. Conditions were 10mph NW and bright sunshine all day.

8 Trout

1 Trout

Very low water and a hot day. However, did quite a bit of sitting and looking and saw some lovely trout (one about 5lb plus) and also a huge shoal of shad in about a foot of water and curiously they were directly under the power lines...??? I last fished here about 20 years ago and I couldn't believe how much the course of the river had changed since then. Anyway, it was a lovely day.

Fishing Passport Note : The shoal would have been mullet

2 rainbow trout caught.
X1 1.5lb kept
X1 5lb returned

5lb = Perch fry imitation, and parachute Adams= 1.5lb

2 Trout