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Fished hard, 1 chub. River in good condition, the barbel must be on holiday. I'll be back.

1 Chub

Skinny water today with very bright skys made for a tough few hours. 8 to hand taken on size 18 CDC emerger, lost a few also. Rain needed to fill the streams up again. Largest 13 inches, the rest between 7-10 inches.

8 Trout

River looked fine, I did struggle gaining access to the river, in the end I returned to the very start of the beat where climbing through the vegetation was possible and relatively flat. Didn't fish for long, so no fish.

River level low but still coloured from the rain early in the week. Very few fish rising and almost no hatch to speak of. Took one brown trout (7/8 in) on a black 14 klinkhammer and a lovely grayling (again in the 7 to 8 inch range taken on GHHE).
Vegetation getting slightly out of hand but river is fishable in waders. One kingfisher and 4 dippers helped the day pass by.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Excellent day’s fishing with trout to 13 inches and grayling to 15 inches. The overall quality of the fish was good with many 10-11 inch fish. Tried various nymphs and caught on all of them – Czech nymph, beaded PTN, stripped quill – but it was a change to a red tag that saw an increase in the number of fish caught, plus a couple lost. Started at the bottom of the beat and fished from 2pm – 8:30pm by which time the light was fading fast. Just about made it back to the pool at the top of the beat to catch a final trout and grayling but most of the fish came from fast runs and pools lower down. Another wonderful day on WUF water.

7 Trout, 18 Grayling

Fished from 8am and caught one 2.5lb rainbow trout on the bottom at 4:30pm. Didn't see any fish rising. Disappointing day really, I think the ticket price needs adjusting!

1 Trout

Good days fishing.

8 Trout

I had a very pleasant evening fishing from 4pm to about 7.30pm.I fished the comfortable swim on the roadside and despite the silk weed which seemed to be covering the river bed I had 2 chub around the 3lb mark and finished with a hard fighting barbel of 4lb 8oz. I had intended to fish a little longer but the rain started so I packed up to avoid a soaking. By the time I had put the gear away in the car, the rain had stopped so spent the next 30 mins feeding the shoal of fish under the willow on the far side of the bridge. First on the pellets were the chub then small Barbel appeared followed by 3 or 4 larger Barbel in excess of 6lb. The enthusiasm they showed in searching out the pellets made me wonder why we sometimes struggle for bites!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

River low but nice flow.

1 Barbel

Only fished for 3 hours in the evening to avoid the canoe circus. Two small barbel - one very small indeed at about 10oz - and a decent chub.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub