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1 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Trout

3 Trout

3 Trout

The river rose all morning and by early afternoon was 1/2m up from when we arrived. The fresh water had the fish on the munch though and we caught plenty of chub and 5 barbel by mid afternoon. However the bites dried up as the river peaked and started to fall. No coincidence I'm sure.

5 Barbel, 30 Chub

No fish

4 Trout

An early morning visit to the Tarrell turned out to be a red letter day, fishing from 8am till 2pm off the back of rain the night before. The river was perfect, a beer colour and rushing through. The number of fish in this river is astonishing, almost every pool, slack and deep pocket produced multiple trout to Euro nymphing, some of them a good size, but most were quite small , 6 to 11 inches average. In gin clear, normal summer low flows you'd be forgiven for thinking the river is fishless, the trout here hide under the many bedrock ledges most of the time. The wading in a high flow is pretty brutal, so bring your studded boots!

40 Trout

No fish caught on this day unfortunately seen a big barbel jump in close

4 Barbel