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3 Trout

15 Trout, 8 Grayling

Despite a decent fly hatch no fish seen rising on the full length of the beat and nothing in my fly box could entice a take. A nice day out in lovely countryside though.

Caught a good size trout and a smaller fish on heavy nymphs in faster water.
As mentioned in previous returns, access has become very challenging and I could only manage to get to the river at single location(Chain pool, I think) and so the rest of beat remained effectively off-limits.

2 Trout

Fished 2 swims around the lucky stone and caught steadily all day. Most caught on feeder apart from 1 barbel and about 5 chub on the float. Hooked a salmon on luncheon meat which proceeded to strip about 70 yards of line off as it went off like a jet ski downstream before the hook pulled. Lost about 20 feeders in snags but that's the price for this magical swim.

8 Barbel, 35 Chub

9 caught on pheasant tail nymph. 1 on a dry. amazing evening.

10 Trout

Other was an eel. Usual number of canoes, now added to by paddleboarders, but died down after 16.00. The evening however brought large groups of paddleboarders and swimmers out making a lot of noise. A consequence of lockdown?

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

NB 2 anglers Other fish were 1 eel and 1 dace

6 Barbel, 23 Chub, 2 Other

We fished an eve session started at 5 till 10, caught 8 barbel in 2 hour feeding spell then 1 at the end, great sport.
Surprisingly I only had 1 small barbel the rest between 5lb & 8lb had 1 10lb on the nose.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other