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River up a bit and caught all fish on meat and pellet ledgering

2 Barbel, 8 Chub

14 Chub

Very tough. 2 small trout.

2 Trout

It was nice to see the ever helpful Stefan this morning, rope to the swim was a great help.
The best barbel was 7lb8oz

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

After overnight rain and an 8lb Barbel 1st cast I thought we were in for a good day.

Sadly that was it!

The river looked good but to be truthful there were very few accessible swims which gave us few options on the day.

It's a shame as it's a good looking bit of river but for the cost of the day tickets we were disappointed.

1 Barbel

River very dark due to rain Gave up about 16.00 hrs

2 Trout

Didn't fish. Bank too dangerous.

The Lower Crai is lovely. Long-ish flats and short riffles. All the best-looking spots are very tree-hung. This beat strikes me as a hatch beat: it can look pretty fish-less but then when the insects appear so do the fish.
I didn’t fish either long or well today but did happen to be at the right spot - a deeper chute, heavily tree-hung - just when the fish appeared, and managed three on a dry (olive comparadun) before normal incompetence resumed. One was a clonker though, 1lb 10oz, my biggest from a wild stream.

3 Trout

Clear bright day so tried fishing deeper (the lake is exceptionally deep) Caught a superb trout approx 14” . Very grateful to Fishing Passport for making these amazing waters so accessible.

1 Trout