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1 Barbel, 30 Chub

Fished just for the evening in the lower field. All fish caught on the feeder with krill boilies. The best chub was just over 4lb, the barbel was about 6lb.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

The day started at 6.30am with clear blue skies and rising temperatures. The Orchard beat was characterised by deep glides interspersed with gravelly runs. The bait pool is currently inaccessible due to a fallen tree, but the beach below the wood offered immediate sport with five Chub and a Barbel.
As the sun rose higher and the temperature exceeded 25 degrees, we drove to the second car park and explored the first meadow, below the Orchard.
The upper section of the meadow offers shallows and gravel beaches. The lower section is made up several deeper pools with high banks. There are however four accessible swims, where fish can be netted if care is taken on the bank.
The Chub came steadily throughout the afternoon to meat and pellet feeder. During the evening we moved to the last pool in front of the Court. This produced Barbel to 6lb+.
Given the beat is over a mile in length and each of the three sections is bordered by overgrown boundaries it pays to use the car to access the three beats. A couple of hours reconnoitring on a prior occasion would be advisable, as the conditions will very much determine your choice of location. Traditional roaming is not really an option currently in the heat of the summer with ultra low water levels.
We will be back to catch that "double"

6 Barbel, 17 Chub, 1 Other

Ok if u like vermin

9 Chub

Dry fly

1 Trout

Fished the morning. swimmers everywhere in the afternoons and evening. Very hot can’t blame them. All caught on the float. Very enjoyable.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

No catch

Fished beat 5 on the bend. Not good, no fish showing, struggled to catch anything. Managed a few small chub.

5 Chub

Completed all the morning chores I wanted to do in the garden , dog suitably walked , and all the necessary bits and bobs all sorted , this callsign was ready for a quick session on the Arrow ….. drove to the Whittern pull in , and a car was there , a blue focus I think , had no wild streams permit displayed , and I can’t remember having seen it booked up last night to be honest , anyway , did an about turn and headed for the Kington beat , which I hadn’t done for a while anyway ……

Strew she was low too , but there are some nice pools here so tackled up and did the moonwalk under the bridge to the first pool , which I know is generally a banker … Para Iron Blue was my chosen dry , and first cast , bang …….missed him , had another go , splashy take , this time on , great , no monster , but gorgeous red spots as always , only eight inches quickly released …. Onwards ….

The next four were like peas in a pod , all about eight inches , but great takes to the dry , all prospected casting , with some missed ones too , and a better fish I had on for about three seconds !!!! That huge ash tree is still a major nuisance to cross , and it would be over the deepest dam section wouldn’t it …. WUF , can this be chainsawed … I realise it’s all money , but perhaps a section just cut out so it’s passable . You can’t go field side , it’s two metres heigh with brambles , and the other side is too steep …. It’s been here a while now , one has been dealt with further up , that’s was about fifty yards down from the weir , good job done there too !!! I’m presuming maybe Kington angling club cleared it ?????

Anyway , assault course aside , fishing was hard going but still fun , and fish prepared to come up in the deep pools and hammer the dry , so much so I should have doubled the tally really , some really took me by surprise , but was quite happy with five , from a shrunken Arrow …. I did have a break after grappling climbing over that ash tree , flipping stones and catching bullheads in my net …. Took me right back to lazy afternoons when I was a young lad in Morda Brook or in the Cynllaith catching bullheads and minnows there …. Plenty in the Arrow too , and it seemed that most big fly stones lifted carefully there was a bully or two ….. oh hand plenty of caddies , in fact hundreds …….

A pleasant three hours on an old stomping ground , good sport too , don’t you just love a lazy few hours mooching upstream on a Saturday ……. Sorted !!!!!!!

5 Trout