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Hard day due to cold weather only one bite resulting in a lovely looking 5lb chub

1 Chub

Blank for grayling, 14 x out of season trout 7- 13 inches, Green Insect. A very cold day, especially the morning with a proper white frost. I struggled and failed to get in contact with grayling during the morning with nymphs. Changed to dry fly after seeing a few dark olives, but every rising fish turned out to be an out of season trout.

3 Chub

Cold one today. Frost in the fields and a slow start searching for the fish using czech nymphs and hares ears. Once the sun came out we switched to dries and my dad got into a couple of good grayling using a parachute, the best weighing at one and a quarter pounds.
It took me until last light to get among the action, landing two smallish grayling on a kilinkhammer in the pool downstream of the bridge. Not very big perhaps, but made the day worthwhile.

5 Grayling

River low and clear. First frost of the season, bright sunshine. Not ideal barbel conditions! Hence, no fish. Tried pellet feeder, meat, cheese paste, small baits, big baits, four swims(mainly the groins downstream of hut). Couldn’t even manage a consolation chub! Beautiful stretch, will be back when conditions improve.

A hard frost the night before followed by a cold, bright and sunny day.
Fished pellets for the entire day however did not get a single bite.

arrived at 0900 on a cold crisp sunny morning. walked down to the river to discover the other bank was very busy with about 12 blokes fishing which left me with very little choice of swims. to cut a long story short the day was a complete waste of time, mainly ( i think ) because of the amount of noise the "anglers" on the other bank were making, they never stopped talking to each other at the top of their voices all day , they were mainly moaning about the lack of fish, from what i could ( easily ) overhear these guys had travelled from portsmouth area to fish for a few days.
no fish caught .
the amount of anglers allowed to fish the other bank is going to ruin this beat, it is certainly not going to be worth paying £26 a day to fish.

Nothing caught!! Heavy frost and low river level

Very low water through the whole beat. Managed two small grayling between us. One on a green gold head and the other off the top on an Adams. Beautiful day in a beautiful spot - thank you WUF

2 Grayling