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Another enjoyable day fishing lower end of courtfield.Slow early on but then found fish in spells through the day.Barbel to 8lb and chub to 4lb.

5 Barbel, 14 Chub, 1 Other

8 x trout 6-11 inches on a Parachute Adams. Mostly small fellows and few natural rises - post mayfly repletion perhaps. The beat looked as beautiful as it always does in high summer.

8 Trout

10 Trout, 2 Grayling

Bright day. Little surface activity. Small trout caught & returned (& several lost) mainly on beaded nymphs. delightful beat to fish.

4 Trout, 1 Chub

Great day on the fishery. The fish had clearly just spawned as the chub were pretty well knocked around and the the barbel long and thin. Having said that the fish fed much of the day. Thanks Don on all the hard work completed in Leg meadow. The strimming work was much appreciated.
Largest barbel was 8lbs 13oz and the largest chub 5lbs 3oz. Happy days

11 Barbel, 9 Chub

River perfect, Weather very bright. Most of the action late evening!

10 Barbel, 26 Chub

One caught on downstream wet fly. Other two were to a CDC emerger

3 Trout

We started at the lower reach of the beat and worked our way up just beyond the weir. After that things got a bit too overgrown to progress further. We hooked 6 fish between us (three each) but most wriggled their way off the hook before they came to hand. One brown trout landed, five escapees and numerous misses - many of which cost a fly as the rebound took the line into the nearest tree! Most came to a nymph of one sort or another with one very spectacular take on a mayfly imitation - there were still many about.

1 Trout

Very tough going in the morning and after moving around I managed to get some bites.
Two barbel and an eel.

2 Barbel, 1 Other

Hot day, couldn't get through the chub to the barbel. The chub were taking the bait on the drop!

50 Chub