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Fished all night at Whitemill for the Sewin but bar a distinctly Brownie like splash at first light it was completely dead and didn't see or hear a fish all night. Praying for rain to freshen everything up.

Arrived Thursday evening to a very slow moving lethargic looking river. Forecast was not all that promising (for fishing) but that didn’t seem to matter. Bait out and a good swim rest before the rods went out. The bites came instantly! Barbel after barbel with lots of good sized chub making an appearance in between. By Friday evening we’d landed 13 barbel and countless chub to a good size! Bait out last light then fished a few hours on the Saturday morning seeing another good sized barbel and 6 proper chub before we packed up and called it a day (water was very warm). A red letter session for us.

14 Barbel, 30 Chub

River very clear.
Access very overgrown most of the way- wading required .
Few rises.
Small trout caught on a small whitish nymph.

1 Trout

Fantastic spot for fishing. We used sweetcorn and Spam as bait.
We caught two Eels just after lunch about 1:30 and the Chubb was just before we left at 7pm.

1 Chub, 2 Other

My first time on home fishery, fished swim by bottom car park
My target was barbel, fished from 5am till 9.30 pm
Chub and more chub between 1 lb to 5 1/2lb most 3-4lb
Fish caught right through the day
Then my last fish was a barbel 7lb, got what I came for !
A fabulous days fishing will be back
Thanks

1 Barbel, 21 Chub

Evening session, pellet paste & meat were successful bait.
Mandarin duck brood were a pleasure and distraction, watch your bait boxes!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Great spot, I took two novices to try to get them their first barbel and succeeded! I lost a good fish and the ones caught were lovely healthy fish around 2lb each. They were unhooked in the water before release as it was a hot day.

2 Barbel

I didn’t arrive until the evening . It’s a beautiful place. Access to the water is poor and it is plain that nobody fishes most of it because the banks are overgrown and the path has been eroded in place. I was using a dry fly but no fish rose the whole evening so I tried nymphs. I didn’t see a single fish. It is primarily a series of old salmon pools with metal stances at the key spots on the named pools. Perhaps a young and agile grayling exert might have done better. I’m 76 and wasn’t happy to wade much.

Fished the evening and had 7 chub using sweetcorn and pellets.

7 Chub

Fished from 5am and started picking up Chub to 4lb on free lined meat from faster water. Was lucky enough to have the whole beat to myself until lunchtime so was able to move around and fish a few runs until I settled on a pool for the afternoon which resulted in 4 barbel and 2 eels. Again all on meat.
A lovely day as these were my first ever barbel.

4 Barbel, 16 Chub, 2 Other