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River low and clear with hot and sunny conditions. Tried four different swims all to no avail, the barbel did not put in an appearance. Two chub in the last hour.

2 Chub

Fished from 11 ish to dark on possible the most beautiful stretch of undoubtedly THE most beautiful river in the UK. Good job I was in good surroundings really as the (my) fishing was awful. Battled hard for 3 chunky chub and a bag full of chublets and dace on the float.
Settled in to a nice peg for last knockings and through very poor angling managed to hook three and lose three. One of the three bites was definitely barbelish, the rod bending round and the line screaming off the spool as once again I managed to miss the action whilst distracted, probably sorting maggots into size order or dislodging a particularly troublesome nettle from a personal area. Like a numpty, I’d put a new spool of line on and forgotten to reset the clutch, meaning the fish (it was huge, honest) toyed with me like a happy dog on a lead before spitting out my three year old boilie in contempt at my shoddy angling.
I think I scared the cows with my expletives as some of them let out some poo as I yelled Fxxx! into the country air. After waiting all day behind a static rod for a decent bite, you can imagine the disappointment of missing a monster (probably a double, almost certainly a PB and quite possibly a new British record).
I can still hear the scream of my reel, ending abruptly as the barbel chuckled its way back to the river bed to tell its mates about my comedy fishing.
That scream is gonna haunt me forever.
Tight lines all. And don't forget to check your clutch.

10 Chub, 5 Other

A good day at How Caple Court although getting on the fish was a bit of a challenge. My colleague had a lovely 8.9 barbel on the float and I picked up two smaller ones on the feeder.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Had a great day on this well maintained beat, both caught some nice barbel up to around 8-9lbs with most around 7lbs. Several fish lost to hook pulls in the strong flow, good to speak to Andy the keeper. Dont quite know why we left it 3 years since our last visit but very much looking forward to returning here next trip.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Both of us struggled using feeder so switched to roving around using ledgered meat which resulted in all fish caught.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

10 Barbel, 12 Chub

Caught using halibut dumbbells,

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

A lot slower day as the river had dropped back to normal levels. Still a pleasant days fishing

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Slower day as river dropped had a nice looking barbel and a few nice chub on the waggler in the slack. 2 big eels as well.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other