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Tough Day

10 Barbel

Arrived to find level pretty much as previous day but loads more debris coming down from storm damage upstream. A couple of barbel around 5lb and a couple lost to hook pulls in the weed was promising and I then had 2 good fish in consecutive casts of 9.15 and 10.03. My 2 mates were booked on Wyebank and were washed off so I packed up at midday. Another excellent albeit short session on this great stretch.

4 Barbel

With 3ft of extra water, being almost dead straight Foy Bridge is a difficult beat to fish. Realistically there was only one swim that even looked fishable, luckily I was the only person booked for the day.
Arrived at around 8am, Chub were active from the start with one caught and two lost to inside line snags (probably on the bank in normal conditions), but catching in such a small area meant that the fish soon turned off. Fed the swim had a coffee and started again (this was to be the way all day) First Barbel arrived about 11am (5lbs 2oz) quickly followed by another which was lost mid stream. Another feed and break resulted in another 2 Chub and the biggest Babel (7lbs 14oz) of the day at around 3pm (and another lost when the hook straitened!) One more smallish Barbel (approx 3lbs) caught as the light was fading.
The river dropped during the day but not enough to reveal any more swims, and some enormous "sticks" floated by all day.
Smaller baits seemed to be the order of the day, 8mm pellet or two grains sweetcorn fished on the inside line along the crease.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

River still high and rising slowly but caught 6 lovely trout that were tempted by some gigantic salmon flies.

6 Trout

4 Trout

With the river pushing through it was not an easy afternoon. We caught nothing despite our best efforts.

River level peaked overnight and dropped slowly during the day. Due to level and colour the most productive swims were in the middle section fished close in on the edge of the flow. Barbel throughout the day mainly to meat. Most fish 4 to 6lbs with best of 9lbs. Also some good chub and one eel.

12 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

We struggled. River up and windy, several baits and methods used

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Trout