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Very bright day, spend few hours on the river from 12-5pm. Lovely day out!

2 Trout

Oxford Ice Fishers End of Season trip - 6 Brown trout caught to 10 ins in sunny warm conditions mostly on nymphs fished downstream.

8 Trout

Sunny ,low water, sparse fly hatches, hard fishing. Will visit again because we know the water is better than this.

Oxford Ice Fishers End of Season trip - 3 small Brown trout caught and released

3 Trout

3 Trout

The river level had dropped back to near summer level and with a cold start and a sunny day the fishing was not easy. I spent the morning getting to know the bottom half of the beat and picked up a couple of Grayling on nymphs. The afternoon was spent casting a Klinkhammer under the trees on the far bank for a few more fish.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

No fish Caught

No Fish Caught

Beat instructions good as usual, we were also very happy with the new arrangements on this beat where a vehicle can be taken down to the middle point of the beat making the previously arduous walk (or extra cash bunged to the owner for a lift).

Whilst the beat looked incredibly inviting, water opposite the weir garden in particular looking like one big barbel swim - it just didn't happen today. The day was very bright indeed with an overnight frost giving way to a beautiful sunny day. But that, coupled with the river dropping and clearing seemed to put the bigger fish off. One 4lb chub was landed (a bit of an old warrior)... but the other three anglers fishing failed to must a bite between them, despite trying in numerous swims. A little bit of trotting was done, and the dace were suicidal.

All of that said, we would definitely revisit this beat. I'm sure with more agreeable fishing conditions it could go really well.

2 Chub, 20 Other

2 Trout