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Great day fishing even though it was about 30 deg, caught 9 chub and 2 eels .
pellet and meat preferred bait.

9 Chub, 2 Other

Very hot. various people swimming in several places which was irritating but understandable. lots of fly life and good rise as it got dark.

1 Trout

Early morning session, finished at 11am.

To note 2 groups of day trippers on river in inflatable boats. Owner aware and taking pictures.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

4 Trout

1 Trout

No fish caught

Fished from 7:30-11:30 on what was a very hot day reaching 28c later. A good fly hatch up to about 10:30 including, to my surprise, some mayfly. Very little surface activity. Water levels higher than I’d expected and the water a little coloured.
Caught and returned two very fine wild brown trout of 10” and 12” respectively. Two of the finest fish I’ve taken in a longtime. Both taken on a size 18 gold head ptn suspended under a klink. Sight fishing to a rising fish not an option.
The beat is quite wild and the access and wading a bit challenging for at least some of us on the wrong side of 60. Nevertheless, wonderful value for money.

2 Trout

Only fished for a couple of hours in morning but excellent
Eleven fish all to rolling meat in fast water biggest was 4 lb but all roughly 3 lb to 4 lb range

11 Chub

Very little optimism on arrival, we've fished this beat a few times and have never seen it so low, however this proved useful for spotting features for future reference.
After considerable exploration with no sign of fish, apart from a couple of Chublets, we eventually found a likely looking spot and fed it a bit.
First 3 runs through produced 3 decent Barbel and we soon had both Barbel and Chub lined up.
All fish caught on Stick float with pellets as bait.

13 Barbel, 10 Chub

spinning I was fishing was no catch