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Pulled even more himalayan balsam there seems no end of the bloody stuff

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

1 trout on green copper john nymph fished under green klinkhammer, 2 fish on small black spider
2 of fish around 3/4 lb and 1 about 4 ozs IC

3 Trout

A lovely day. 4 caught up to 6". All caught on nymphs.

4 Trout

Beautiful day on beautiful water. Excellent beats, well managed and maintained. A nice catch of barbel and chub, with a couple of ten pounders. Highly recommended. Lots of grilse bouncing through, and a few coloured up residents on show. Millstone was full of grilse.

Water quite low & limited amount of water fishable with the fly. Nothing seen nor touched unfortunately.

Water quite low & only 40 metres of fly fishing in truth. One fish of about 14lbs. & coloured on for 30 seconds or so. One other 'knock'. Nothing else seen.

Recced the top end of the beat. Access from left bank, above the bridge very tricky - didn't try the RH bank. Lovely Kingfisher. Then went downstream of the bridge and met a friendly fellow angler fishing the White Swan beat (non-fishing but access for W&U) = also a member of W & U. Saw a large flock of GOOSANDERS which made themselves scarce pretty quickly - other angler said they're about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Had a good value lunch at the Severn Arms and some advice from the owner George. Fished below the footbridge for a couple of hours - water a tinge coloured but a reasonable flow/height and very fishable - fish seemed very wary but had two small brownies and a salmon parr on nymphs. Saw a caravan park so perhaps this part of the beat gets some attention. George said that a lower beat should be online soon.

2 Trout, 1 Other

Lovely silver fresh 5lbs Grilse caught on #12 Reverend Mole Fly. Safely returned after lively fight.

1 Salmon

Arrived to bright sunshine and started with duo system. Caught a few fish on both so changed to dry. Caught grayling up to 7ins and wbt to 6ins. River in nice condition. Became overcast and the fish went down but a good day in nice surroundings.

10 Trout, 5 Grayling

Always a pleasure fishing this beat with the nice garden opposite.
Moved from our first swim as there was too much weed to get snagged on which wasn't visible in the still slightly coloured river. It paid off and we started catching barbel after about an hour and steadily after that. Pellet feeder again being the method today.
Most of the barbel were in the 7lb range so a good average size. I cleaned off any lice found on the barbel in the net in the water which were mainly at the back of the dorsal fin or on the pectorals. One barbel leaked out some eggs on the unhooking mat which I have never seen happen before.
Todays wildlife included a little egret, kingfisher flying under the rods, sand martins again in the far bank nesting in drainage holes in the wall and of course a buzzard or two again.
No taxi service available this time but we are fit and able. Its a long walk if you aren't.

10 Barbel, 8 Chub