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River looked good, not too low, a bit of colour. Between us we fished all accessible areas of the beat. No access to the river in the bottom meadow, most pegs are at the top of the beat where the access is excellent. No chub, no barbel all day for either of us. Looking at the feedback some anglers do really well on this beat but this was our second visit without a Barbel so it will be a while before we are tempted back to this beat.

River looked good. Day ruined by endless canoes.

I fished Crewil Pool from 10pm-4am, sharing with three local club anglers. Several fish moved in quick succession shortly after 10pm and I thought it was going to be a good night, but it then went very quiet with only the occasional larger fish splashing about. Four anglers fishing the pool in constant procession was possibly too much traffic for the sewin and either they went down or carried on running as none of us caught any fish. The best I could manage was a pull from a probable small shoalie at dusk in the shallow water at the head of the pool, and then another possible pull around 11pm in the main part of the pool after the fly had swung around and was being retrieved on the hang. In desperation I tried a spinner in the railway bridge pool at dawn as it seemed a bit higher and with a slight tinge but that was dead too.
After the flood last week there are more sea trout in the river. Quite a few were caught daytime spinning last week, and the Golden Grove fishery downstream had a bumper week.

River at 0.65 and falling. Already very clear. No moving fish seen.

Had a good day on the woods stretch, fished 1/3rd across with Pellet and feeder. Arrived at first light and lost a fish in the first half hour. Waited for another hour before a Chub of about 3 pounds snared itself.
Despite the Canoe traffic, caught steady through the day but not what I would call all action. The highlight was a 10lb 4oz Barbel which fought like a demon. Lost another good fish which I think was foul-hooked as I didn't get a bite, just reeled in to re-bait. Also had a few Eels, all lip hooked and all carefully handled and safely returned. River was slightly-up but running clear.
I love this fishery and the Barbel do seem to be a bigger average size than most other beats.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub, 3 Other

Started fishing at 6am and picked up 10 by 8am, all between 8 and 14 inches. All took size 18 beadhead. Then it was a struggle to catch when the sun was up. Nothing rising so persevered with nymph till 12pm only taking a few more. Had 2 heavy fish hit nymph in one of the pools but after short tussle both were off. Cracking mornings fishing could of been more, some days they stick others they shake the hook.

13 Trout

I had one small sewin of about 1.5 pounds in the day on the fly. It went quiet as it got dark but it also rained for about half an hour. After the rain cleared the fish began to show and jump just as my phone and head torch batteries died. There are a lot more fish present in the river since the last flood.

1 Sea Trout

Blanked again. The river came very much alive, with many rises, just as it was getting dark.

Fished down from the bridge following reading the most recent reviews; tried across and down with a goldhead PTN on the point and tried a few different north country spiders on mid and top dropper. Managed to spook one WBT (around 6") and saw two brief rises about halfway down this section of the beat but no response to my offerings. As per previous comments, river did look low and we saw at least one kingfisher, three sightings - absolutely stunning blue in the sunshine. Would like to fish this with someone who has a little more river experience than I do to point me in the right direction!

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Two rods fished a number of swims at the top of the beat, trying to find the faster water. We took barbel from all swims but it was non consistent. The "beach" swim is very snaggy, we found to avoid the snags it was best to cast up stream into the main pool.
We stayed until last knockings but despite the river looking spot on, we failed to get a bite in the last hour.

13 Barbel, 8 Chub