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2nd day of two, chub everywhere along the stretch but no barbel at all, never gone 2 days without a single barbel before.

10 Chub

2nd day of my trip and very different to the previous day.
Fished same swim in the woods, first 5 casts yielded 4 barbel to 8lbs and a chub then no more barbel.
Chub continued until I left at midday.

4 Barbel, 23 Chub

Other fish was an Eel, was pellet fishing for barbel, seemed to be many many small chub attacking the baits, biggest chub went 4lb 7oz. River was slightly coloured but at normal level.

3 Chub, 1 Other

Fished the wooded section and was into chub straight away. Caught on all methods and any bait.
No sight of a barbel.

47 Chub

6 Chub

This is a beat which has consistently been good to us in recent years. River conditions looked ok, after carrying a tinge of colour the previous day the river had become clearer overnight and had dropped a fraction.
We settled on pegs in the woods where the river was at its quickest in the hope that this may offer the best chance of Barbel. This plan though did not really work out. There were Chub to be caught all day long but even they came in fits and starts rather than steadily. Barbel were almost completely absent from the picture though, only one small one was caught all day long.
Had a little rove around and tried other pegs but this only produced more Chub.
Slightly disappointing that we failed to catch Barbel in anything like the numbers of recent years but that’s fishing for you.
A lovely quiet stretch to fish though even if the walk up the hill does get the blood pumping a bit.

1 Barbel, 45 Chub

Other fish was an eel

2 Chub, 1 Other

Dire fishing for whatever reason, the river had risen by around 1ft and we expected this to improve the fishing, however this wasn't the case and we packed up fishing around 1pm due to boredom.
All fish were caught on 8mm fishmeal pellets with a feeder, the barbel was barely bigger than a large gudgeon, this is for DC.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Plenty of Chub, best 5lb. 4oz.,but Barbel didn't show, the other was an Eel, rising river, hardly a touch from 1:30 to 7:30 pm. so called it a day.

33 Chub, 1 Other

Was a bit hard going, did hope for the early season Chub bonanza on the balsa. Managed some lovely big chub with some smaller tubes too. The all night rain had not affected the river as it was still very low but did have slight colour in it. Unfortunately the wet weather had made the woods a bit treacherous, I did take a fall late on and jarred my shoulder but no damage. Take care. Mixed weather day too. Enjoyable as always fishing here in lovely surroundings. Be back at the end of the month. All canoes were very polite too.

20 Chub