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6 Chub

Phone booked this at 4pm on my way from work in Ross. Hoped for a evening ticket but does not apply on this beat which is a real shame, so stumped up £20.75 for the pleasure of fishing from 4-45 till dark. Expected more water there after Mondays rain, in fact it looked clean and clear so set up on far bank next to bridge. Must have been one of those days, lost 3 sets of kit rolling a big lump of spam and one feeder when I swapped tactics.
Moved further down, again loosing a feeder first cast, cut clean off clean above the feeder! Think this may have been due to a lot of submerged small willow branches pulling my main line down into the rocks. Where and why these were present, who knows? Tried a lighter feeder to no avail and lost another set. Moved right down to below the willow and fished spam with a totally buried hook. Took a 7lbs barbel after 20mins. The sky turn very dark and it hammered down. Called it a day around 7.20pm. Had worst days!

1 Barbel

8 Chub

A great evenings fishing from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on ledgered pellet. The river was low and clear as previous but no debris…
6 Chub to 5lb. 3 Barbel - 8lb 9oz being the biggest (7lb+) & (6lb+).

3 Barbel, 6 Chub

Having fished the previous day I was expecting to find fishing easier. River condition was still low and clear but the sun was shining. Caught 6 Chub between 2lb – 4.5lb and 1 Barbel 7lb 6oz on meat and Pellet.
All fish came between 3pm and 6:30pm. After this the river seemed to change slightly with some debris coming through - Perhaps a weir was opened up stream?

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Arrived to find the river running low and clear. Not what I was hoping for but the fishing was ok! It took a while to find the fish but ended the day with 5 chub between 2lb & 5lb on pellet and luncheon meat. No Barbel.

5 Chub

My son and I caught 3 chub and 1 eel. The river is still very low and there were really only 2 fishable swims. Nice stretch of river but very short.

3 Chub, 1 Other

Fished mid-aternoon to dusk and the stretch continues to fish well although I'm definitely having to work a bit harder for the fish than earlier in the season. All chub came to rolling meat with the feeder being really quiet until the last hour when the barbel came on the feed. Best barbel weighed in at 7lb 4oz.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Took a trout fishing mate with me today, he was keen to experience the pull of a barbel. We got there around mid day, over cast and a little blowy, water up a foot and running dirty but clearing steadily. Set up on the far bank I fished the pellet and my mate, the spam both on the lead. I fished 15m upstream of him with the open ended feeder full of ground halibut, 8mm trout pellets and giant hemp, hoping this would draw the fish up and to where his spam would be on offer....this took about 2 minutes before his rod's bait runner screamed off. 7lbs of fit clean barbel netted and a real happy angler. One good eel fell to the spam and 5 barbel of similar size to the pellet. Fish came at hourly intervals. Oddly it died around 6pm, no other bites ensued and we left at 8pm. No chub at all? Good afternoons angling at a nice venue.

6 Barbel, 1 Other

A difficult day on a rising river complete with all the usual debris making it difficult to hold a bait in position, there are no slacker areas on this stretch to target when conditions are like this. Guess we went a day to early!