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5 Trout

Started the day with hundreds of swimmers bumping through, so fished inside for little results. Swimmers fortunately died down by noon so could fish the fast flow in between the kayaks. By 2pm the kayaks had pretty much vanished until dusk, starting catching Barbel in pellet feeder with scolded pellets. Then got lots of chubby missed bites so switched to maggot feeder which caught the chub, trout and plenty more barbel. All in all a great day.

1 Trout, 11 Barbel, 6 Chub

3 Chub

It was always a big gamble with Redbrook at 20cm - need more rain and at least double that level really. A few fish at Cockpit but I fished the whole beat just to get to know it. Nothing caught.

A few fish rising throughout the day but the nymphs provided most of the sport in the more oxygenated water. One of the highlights of the day was watching a squirrel swim across the river – not seen that before!

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

- Good directions, and easy parking in the layby right next to the beat.
- Very easy walking access on both banks of the short beat. Steep banks to get up and down to the spots, but (somewhat broken) steps on one spot and steps cut into the grass on the other, so no real problem.
- Very low, clear water. This is a shallow stretch, so on arrival we were very doubtful we would catch anything given the conditions, but we persevered and fished the left hand bank at the downstream end. Trotted meat down on a loafer.
- For two rods (packing up early afternoon when the rain set in): 17 chub all 3lb to 5lb. 1 eel.
- Lovely days fishing with not too many canoes, Would certainly return. Waders would have made life an awful lot easier rather than casting for miles.

17 Chub, 1 Other

A couple of hours with the feeder rod at dawn made me realise that legering wasn't going to be productive so I "mountaineered" (you'll understand this is you've fished this beat - it certainly gets the blood pumping) back to the car to change gear and set about a day of trotting.

The forecast of an overcast, drizzly day was way off the mark as I stood surveying a very low river in the blazing sunshine. I thought I was in for a gruelling day. However, I roved the stretch and tried several swims, catching plenty of chub and barbel on the stick float. What a fantastic way to fish for them.

Chub from chublets to 4lb and barbel from 4 1/2 to 7 1/2 llb.

10 Barbel, 15 Chub

Nine small chub caught trotting maggots during the day. All six barbel came in the last hour at sunset on pellet feeder or PVA bags with krill boilies. The biggest barbel was exactly 8lb.

6 Barbel, 9 Chub

Two brown trout to 12 inches. Both from the faster water on small olive or Klinkhammer patterns.

2 Trout

Just fished the morning, 12 Chub no sign of any Barbel

13 Chub