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Difficult conditions with strong downstream wind and rain. Lost a good trout (on upstream nymph) which got into fast water where I could do little with it. A good water level but clear. A lovely little river.

Difficult day weatherwise with strong downstream wind and heavy showers. Also a lot of weed floating downstream making fishing tricky.
Nothing in the morning, better in the afternoon, but persistent heavy rain forced us to pack up, unfortunately just as things had started to pick up !
Finished with a chub of 4lb+(meat)from lower end and and a couple of barbel of 6lb(pellet)and 8.5lb(meat)from top end of beat with one good fish lost(sweetcorn)to a hook pull.
Lovely river, lovely area, shame about the weather ! We will be back.

Three trout caught in two hours on brown klinkhammer including one of 17" below the bridge at Penpont. All returned safely. Many others risen and missed. Lovely beat, easily accessible and worth spending a whole day at.

No fish caught. Bad Day! Various patterns used.

Two of us fished from 11.30am until 6.30pm, catching 21 trout up to 14". Water was crystal clear. Sparodic hatches of small olives and sedges kept the odd trout rising throughout the day. 12 caught on small dries (f-flies mostly), the rest on small gold head nymphs. About 1/3 of the trout looked wild, the rest were stocked, some with damaged pectoral fins.

Bank holiday canoe traffic made fishing virtually impossible until after about 2 pm as canoes were veering all over the river,one even bumped into the bank in front of me!

I fished a few swims with difficult access and had 6 Barbel between 4pm and 8 pm then finished off with a decent Chub.the best fish was a very hard fighting 9 lb the rest between 6lb to 8 lb.

Had a great days sport on 31st August on the Lower Carrotts & Luggsmouth beat. Had 4 barbel and 3 chub, the best 2 barbel around the severn pound mark.

All were taken next to the fishing hut on halibut pellets.

25 Plus Grayling ranging from 7 inches to 14 inches.
3 small Brown trout biggest 8 inches. Fished beat using Czech Nymphs.

2 barbel to two rods, again caught on halibut pellet. Both fish caught within 2 minutes of each other and then very quiet for the rest of the day.

All in all a very enjoyable weekends fishing.

I am a fly fisherman but I like a go with my son for the barbel. Yesterday was outstanding and I have to say we lost count and some of the fish took an age to land. My son begged that we stop as he was exhausted after 5 in a row.

I hope that that everyone treat the fish with respect and uses strong enough tackle and barbless hooks as some of the fish caught had other traces in. Thank you WUF. Didn't see a salmon by the way.