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Day four at Howcaple and the best of the trip ten barbel with best fish at 8lb 4oz used pellet and boilies over the four days and found both caught as well as the other , i think you should use what ever you have faith in , avoided meat as i did not want tackle tangling Eels ,if you make your first visit to this fishery bring stout tackle 1.75lb rod (mine is a harrison Dark carbon built by mark Tunley superb action ) minimum 10lb line and strong hooks make no mistake these barbel fight hard ,had the best fight ever from a 7lb fish which if i had lost would have been convinced it was a double or a salmon .my only concern on this on other beats i have fished more safe access needs to be made to swims not platforms but steps and flat area to fish from + ropes to avoid an accident with out spoiling wild feel of these lovely fisheries we need some input with owners .

10 Barbel

Day three on Howcaple river level still good some colour hot sunny midday so fished early and late ,four barbel in the 6-7lb range .

4 Barbel

Day two on Howcaple heavy rain and wind in the morning so did not fish until afternoon /evening four barbel two in the 7-8 lb range river level still good and some colour

4 Barbel

day one on Howcaple river level and colour good after rain fishing good nine barbel all in the 5-7lb range and with extra flow all fought like tigers .

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fish taken on Boilie, Bread and pellet including an eel.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Two of us fishing. A disappointing day with only two baby Barbel and four eels caught. Tactics mainly meat or pellet. Probably too static today. Angler on opposite bank caught 15 barbel and 3 chub on caster, so definitely worth a try as an option to pellet for the barbel. This is a lovely spot and I'm sure it can produce plenty of fish on another day

2 Barbel, 4 Other

We had a slow start to the day but by trying various swims we all caught well catching 18 barbel to 9 lb, mainly caught on hair rigged pellet and a lot of the fish we caught under the near bank bushes

18 Barbel, 1 Chub

Wonderful setting - peregrines, barn owls, kite, buzzards, barbel. Barbel, barbel and barbel all along. Reccomend a long landing net handle on some swims which are fairly high up with the lowish water.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

Complete blank - fair bit of water had gone into the river in 24hours so possible a temperature change turned the fish off the feed?

Shame, stretch look nice, easy manageable swims and some lovely deeper runs off the main flow but only one real whack on the tip all day, what I managed to miss.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub