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3 small perch on ledgered worm. 1 trout hooked on a spinner but lost.

3 Other

3 chub 2 eels lovely place , but it’s desperate need a lot of rain.

3 Chub, 2 Other

Low conditions

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

4 Chub

2 Trout

anglers caught 5 trout between them

5 Trout

10 Chub

Middle hill court. Fished until four o’clock had five decent chub no barbel, fished what looked to be the deepest and clearest swim a couple of pegs upstream from the car park. Interesting to see all weed in the clear shallow water which gives you an idea where to go when the river has more colour and height

Bait and wait approach in a deep gully between streamer weed - resulted in the blankety blank cheque book and pen!

Amazingly no-one was booked on this fabulous beat so at short notice all three of us managed to get our middle-aged bodies up over the hill and on to the whirly bit where the fish live.

We then spent a pleasant day doing what most blokes our age do – fighting the chub.

There must be something in the water here that keeps these chub present as I’ve never witnessed anything like the amount of a single species in one stretch. They’re like tadpoles in a pond.

I reckon between us we must have caught 75 of the blighters throughout the day in various shapes and sizes, all caught on various baits - not bad going bearing in mind our day also included a 4 hour gap midday for lunch and a red wine snooze.

We also managed some nice barbel (including a few one pound toddlers) to round off a perfect day. Despite the trek across the top, this beat never fails to deliver.

Especially if you like chub.

6 Barbel, 75 Chub