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Great day. All catch and release

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

Took home all 3 of the rainbow trout caught. Caught and released a crayfish.

3 Trout, 1 Other

Morning started well with early barbel to me. The sky cleared and got very hot fishing then very hard but when sun went down they came back on the feed: three more for me best around 71/2 and my friend had two more including best fish of the day at 8lb, we both fished pellet and feeder chub were all small about 3lb. Great fishery, very helpful river keeper but some repair work is needed to steps leading down to swims and new swims have not had steps cut which are needed on these steep banks for safe fishing especially when wet; we will be back.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

All fishes were let free. The biggest trout 1 pound

15 Trout

This is an attractive beat with good access when dry and always looks as if it should produce a lot of barbel. We did have a flurry of activity towards the end of the day but the fish were very localised and seemingly absent from a large stretch of the water.
5 medium sized barbel and 3 chub took a liking to our pellets after a long wait.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

6 x trout 6-10 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Water low and clear and a bright day after a rather cold night. Probably I started too early in the morning because nothing wanted to rise until about half way up. However, She Who Must Be Obeyed had scheduled a list of work for the Landrover and me later involving collecting bags of manure and taking stuff to the tip. How the British Sunday has changed! With the exception of Scotland it used to be a choice between church, chapel or going fishing. Now it's all about garden centres and recycling. Picked some blackberries on the way back down the beat.

6 Trout

River very clear, downstream wind a bit chilly. 5 caught, 4 on a nymph below a bushy sedge and 1 took the sedge.

5 Trout

Three anglers. One had 3 barbel. One had 1 barbel and one chub. One blanked. All fish took pellets. Very hot weather today.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

The evening before was a clear night, got to the beat around 7am it was like a freezing cold sunny morning, baited up 5 swims the river was gin clear and low....started fishing around 9am spent 2 hours in each swim not a bite....way to sunny and with the cold evening and morning made for a bad days fishing for barbel....had about 16 canoes come past....

Eyeing up the catch returns for late August had us licking our lips in anticipation. Starting in fine drizzle, mid-morning with an intermittent northerly breeze it felt chilly. As the day wore on the cloud cleared. By the afternoon it was bright and warm. The river had a slight brown tinge but was clear. Wading was relatively easy with the aid of a staff. As anglers so frequently comment this is a stunningly beautiful place to spend a day fishing.
Fish were rising occasionally in the pools but they tended to ignore the variety of small dries we offered. When they did rise the flies weren’t taken. Weighted nymphs were more successful accounting for three good Grayling, each over a pound and a couple of trout one of a pound, the other much smaller.
It all goes to show that catch returns are just history and as they tell investors, “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” It never stops us getting excited though does it?

2 Trout, 3 Grayling