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3 Trout

River at a nice height after recent rain. Initially overcast but brightened nicely through the afternoon. Fished all the way up with a combination of dry fly and a New Zealand style nymphs. Pleasant fishing especially at top and bottom. Relatively easy to scale the banks when needing to navigate fallen trees etc. Found it relatively hard going today and just had a couple of fish on a black weighted nymph (but not to hand), with a miss to a take on a dry Adams. All in all a lovely way to spend an afternoon.

Beautiful day when we arrived but overnight rain meant that the river rose by about 3 feet by late afternoon. No fish seen but looked very promising. Many thanks to George for his helpful advise.

Robin Stewart 22/23 Cock Salomon on a skull head cascade fly. Hold hard fight for Robin the bionic man!

1 Salmon

Good access from parking spots on the lane.
Fishing was impaired however because of a Fisherman directly opposite one of our swims who was casting into the edge of swim We were fishing.
Just thought I would mention it in case you think you have the best exclusively to yourself!

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

The river was very full and coloured when I arrived and the banks where very slippery so needed to be cautious. I parked in the first car park at day break and walked the field and settled for a swim just inside the wood.
I was fishing with a 2lb test curve barbel rod and a 4000 reel loaded with 12lb main line. I had a 4’ fluorocarbon hook link of 9lb with a size 10 barbless hook. My bait was a drilled halibut pellet attached on to a hair and a pellet stop. I had a running rig with a 4oz cage feeder attached. The feeder was filled with a groundbait mix containing hemp, pellets and crushed boilies all fish/krill based.
I moved swims at lunchtime as had seen a few fish and had a few little knocks but no bites. Also a gentleman and his wife had started setting up exactly opposite me on the far bank. I walked back down the field to find another swim, because of the high water a lot of swims were not accessible or were not safe to land fish in due to snags. I settled on a swim opposite the first car park. I then caught consistently for the rest of the day.
The fish were in very good condition I let them rest in my deep landing net whilst I sorted out my unhooking mat, scales and camera. After each fish was weighed and photographed I put them back in my landing net to rest and recover before releasing. This did not take long as I had let them recover before photographing.
Unfortunately in the late afternoon I did see what appeared to be a small barbel floating belly up drifting down the far bank. I believe there was another angler fishing down stream of me who maybe able to verify that. The only angler I saw on that bank was the gentleman that arrived around lunchtime and started fishing opposite me, he was wearing an orange tee shirt and was accompanied by a lady.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Great days fishing for all four of us,weather overcast, fished all day till last light

23 Barbel, 40 Chub

Very good afternoon fishing

44 Barbel, 6 Chub

3 Anglers used garden worms No fish caught

5 Barbel, 5 Chub