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6 Barbel

The river rose 3 meters during the course of the day making fishing all but impossible.
No Barbel, but a handful of Chub saved the blank.

3 Chub

Caught two barbel early on as the river level was rising. Things became very difficult after that with everything (including trees) flowing down the river accompanied by very strong winds once again!! Finally gave up at around 3pm as river had already risen by 1.8 metres and was still rising.

2 Barbel

River rose quickly throughout the day and the stretch became unfishable by 5pm due to the swims themselves being several feet under! Most fish came from the Old Wharf with the rest from the Wyebank Pool. Pellet wrapped in paste caught but suspended weed made it a nightmare. A switch to rolling meat resulted in most fish including a chub of 5lb 1oz and the largest barbel of 8lb 14oz. Every fish was a workout in the strong flow but all were well rested and shot off strongly.

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

Reservoir flooded and murky red brown. Found some clear water at a stream inlet and caught some good sized fish on variety of dark flies. Also had some success stripping back very bright lures quickly through murk.

6 Trout

River already pushing through first thing and during day height increased by over a metre. With lots of weed fishing was difficult. Only one bite early on fishing close in.

Severe overnight storms led to un-fishable conditions, we arrived at 0830 to find a constant torrent of debris and storm damaged trees flying past on a rapidly rising river..we soldiered on to the woods in an attempt to locate any likely looking in close slack areas...however after having lost one barbel on first cast the rest of the day remained actionless..buy the time we left the river had risen over 5 feet..!

Very hard conditions.

5 Other

Did not fish as river rose 14 feet overnight

We caught 3 barbel , best being 9.5 lb and a very nice Chub 6.10 lb . Then unfortunately the river rose 6-7 ft over the next few hours , by mid afternoon we could no longer fish due to all the tree's and debris coming down the river.
Oh also 1 mad man swimming down with the current , unbelievable .
There really was not enough swims for 6 anglers and like previous comments feel the owners should cut some more to make the access better .

3 Barbel, 1 Chub