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10 Trout

River slightly high with lots of loose streamer weed coming down, fishing once again very slow with two barbel caught to DC, cage feeders and 8 mm pellets used by both anglers.
Some very large branches were coming down river all day causing some tackle to be lost

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

All we had was eels river was a brown colour from Algie not good fishing

2 Other

16 x trout 6-13 inches, Parachute Adams and Monnow Gosling. A warm and bright day with a few mayfly still about this afternoon. Plus a salmon parr, which was interesting.

16 Trout, 1 Other

No fish today. River very low. Regards Denis

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another tough day but worked so hard and roamed. Located the fish towards the end of the day and it was very rewarding after a couple of tough days. A beautiful stretch albeit spoiled a little by canoeists beaching and having picnics and throwing sticks in for their dogs adjacent to us fishing.

6 Barbel, 10 Chub

Both fish around the pound mark and caught on cdc shuttlecock emerger. There were a few groups of rising fish in the channel of the lower part of the beat but they were extremely spooky. Getting within casting range was possible but as soon as the fly went over they stopped rising, despite a 17ft leader and what I thought was impeccable presentation!
An enjoyable evening nevertheless.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Plenty of knocks but no bites

I was slightly concerned that reports from this beat so far this year were down on last year and the reports of a major snag/tree in the lower pool. I ended up having an enjoyable, but somewhat frustrating day. Weather was warm, but mostly overcast. I fished from the bottom coy from 12:30 - 21:00 and caught steadily all day. The frustration was that I lost so many fish to hook pulls and only just managed to come out on top. 10 barbel landed and 9 lost to hook pulls. The swim is very heavily weeded, particularly down the near side and all the fish were lost as they got into the thick weed. I think that the snag referred to as a tree in other reports, is in fact very thick weed. As fish got held up in the weed, they appeared to be able to twist themselves off the hook. I fished a pellet feeder all day and didn't loose a single feeder or break off on a fish. The barbel were a very mixed size with a few of around one pound, a couple around 3lb, a couple more around 5lb and two at 7lb.
I found the fish in the faster water, fishing at about 45 degrees downstream, 3/4 of the way across. Used 12lb mainline with a 10lb coated braid hook length.
I'm not sure whether the stretch is fished only through the WUF, but I had to clear the peg of litter, which included luncheon meat tin lids. Very disappointing that anglers can leave such a mess.
Other fish were one chub and one small eel

10 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other