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River at low summer levels. Fished deeper water with pellet/boilies. 4 barbel between 6 and 7.5 lbs. 8 chub up to 2.5 lbs. Also 1 very large eel which fought like crazy.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

One tiddler caught in a pool in fast riffles - hooked on an emerger. Missed a couple of small bites. Tough beat given deep pools, even with water levels low, but good mix of conditions, enjoyable nonetheless.

1 Trout

Nothing caught, fish were hanging around in deep water, and were rising for the early morning feed. Good show of fish rising in the deeper pools with water level low, especially near the bridge - spotted one decent sized greyling too. Pub lunch highly recommended!

First time on this beat, so not sure how to fish it. However, managed six small chub on meat. An idyllic beat, peace and quiet. It's not all about the fish but sometimes it's just about being there. A wonderful day.

6 Barbel

A relatively short session as my last day of 4 on the river and I needed to pack-up the tent and get home. Arrived at the river at 7am and fished until 1pm.
Slow start with a few chub, most barbel came in the period 10am - noon. Changed to meat and went back to a chub a cast, but changing back to pellet brought an instant bite and the fifth barbel.

5 Barbel, 15 Chub

Nice quiet day's fishing resulting in 5 barbel to 7.5lb, taken on the usual pellet baits. River is very clear and low now. However, river looked beautiful at first light due to the 8 degree temperature resulting in columns of mist across the water - more like a September morning.

5 Barbel

My sardine can brimmeth over! More pleasant day than forecast with reasonable hatch and trout rising in places. All WBT caught were very small but looked to be in excellent condition.

7 Trout

Started fishing about half way down on the left hand bank (as you look from the bridge). Loose fed handfuls of pellet with a selection of ledgered hook baits (8-14mm halibut pellets, 8mm robin red, code red boilies, peperami etc)some wrapped in paste, some not, but despite a few bites, nothing hooked until 3pm when I swapped to the float rod and trotted a big chunk of crust down and hooked a nice chub (2lb or so) within seconds.
Moved further down to the last swim just in the faster water and alternated between float and ledger rod. Had 1 Barbel of 8lb and another nice Chub on the ledger rod but the rest of the fish came to bread on the float. All Chub were in 2-3lb range and only stopped fishing when I ran out of bread (only took a couple of rolls because they were out of date!). Next time I would take a couple of crusty loaves and mashed bread and really focus on trotting instead of sitting watching a motionless rod tip.
River was low and clear with good access down from the banks with steps down to most swims. Parking within a few metres of the start of the beat makes this perfect for the lazy amongst us and the bridge gives a good vantage point to survey the river.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Back to the beat after a short evening session. River quite low but some colour, weather was changeable from showers to clear skies. Relieved to find that the deeper water swims were available with no anglers casting into them from the opposite bank that meant we stood a better chance with the Barbel. Between us landed 6 Barbel to 8lbs including one of under a pound the rest around the 4-6lbs mark throughout the day lost 5 to snags and hook pulls. A few nice chub caught up to 4lbs and a couple of eels which seem to be making a bit of a come back. On our 4 day trip we caught a total of 13 eels.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

As per other comments, there are only 1 or 2 swims available due to the weed growth. Boys Rocks was a tight swim for two anglers but we managed to squeeze in and catch on a variety of tactics including pellet/feeder, cheese paste and meat. 7 barbel to 7 1/2 lb and 3 chub to 4 lb caught over the day. Thanks W&U.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other