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12 barbel and a few chub caught. A fairly tough day for this venue with most of the fish coming towards the end of the day.

12 Barbel, 5 Chub

Overcast with rain but fish very spooky. Small varied hatch late afternoon, trout up to 6'' taken in deep pools on nymph.

3 Trout

1 Trout

River quite low & running clear, fish taken on dry fly (tan coloured Adams. Late evening was the best time. The fish are there but tricky to catch. Stealth essential, fish taking olive nymph in faster stretches of water. Had loads of takes on dry fly but found it difficult to keep fish on.

4 Trout

4 Barbel between 5.5lbs to 8.5lbs lbs. Others were eels. All caught on feeder tactics, all with sweet corn.

4 Barbel, 5 Other

Remember luncheon meat? Switched to it early afternoon, immeadiate result 10lb barbel. All the other barbel were a similar weight and chub between 3 & 5lbs. One wonderful eel about 2ft long & 2 inch diameter who obligingly did a double twisting back flip unhooking itself & slithering back down into the river. will be back in the winter. 15lb line throuhout, snapped off by something that flew upstream at about 100 mph?

10 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

2 of us fished 2 days at Foy. 1st day was low and clear, the second still low with a little more colour. Only really two swims fishable when the river was this low which was a shame. Brilliant chub fishing regardless. Fish from 2-6lb on standard feeder tactics and a few eels just mix things up.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 30 Chub, 4 Other

Had enjoyable days fishing. Saw 4 salmon show in morning and caught 2 chub on spinner, 1 of 2lb & another of 3lb from The Maddox. The canoes came through very early at 6.40am. Fished to 9am then came back 4pm & fished through to 8pm. No canoes in afternoon & no more salmon.

The river was lower then the previous week and therefore din't hold so many barbell although the chub were very hungry as usual. Feeder and pellet was the method used. The largest barbel was 7lbs 8oz the others around the 4lb mark. Need some rain to increase river level.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

My first time at The Creel - a lovely stretch with the best fishing from the island downstream. The weather was very mixed, warm then windy and wet. I caught my first barbel first cast early doors, then at various intervals throughout the day and my last just before the heavy rain and winds early evening. It seemed to go quiet at the times of the weather changes but a good day on a lovely river, countryside and wildlife.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub