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Perfect conditions but nobody told the Barbel. Still very pleasant and enjoyable day!

4 Chub

River not fishable, water very coloured with algae and the water temperature 72f just one or two salmon showing, tried to spin for 1 hour waste of time packed up and went home.

Feeder/boilie fishing three barbel up to 8lb lovely condition.
Shame about the bank access only two serviceable swims vegetation cut back but no toe hold or flat spots to access water edge.
Forgot my cramp on!!!

3 Barbel

The predicted rain didn't come so I had a pleasant day on the river, overcast warm with only a light wind. Access was very difficult. Through the gate you are faced with five foot high stinging nettles and shrub, I used my wading staff to hack a path to the river, only to find I was faced with a big drop onto soft mud and had to back track to find another entry point. Two flies lost in the first three casts wasn't a good start. I used dry flies throughout and managed to consistently get rises to them, but I think they were always very small and never managed to connect. Walked the entire beat, one dead sheep on the bank quite new. Exit at the top of the beat was tricky, walked back to my car along the road.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

I didn't fish this day as the previous day had been so good (on the same beat) that I didn't fancy a downer!

1 half pound perch.

1 Other

Upper Gromain: large salmon lost after a longe fight very silver fish

11' on the guage, overcast and no wind. We thought maybe we'd see a few salmon showing, but no! We fished long and hard till 8.30pm without as much as a pull from a salmon. 5 brownies did like the salmon flies though. Never mind - character building they call it!!!

5 Trout