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Had a fantastic day at Thomas Wood . Caught 5 Barbel , didn't have scales but the biggest was easily double figure . Also caught a big Eel . Will definitely be going back .

5 Barbel, 1 Other

We fished the lower pool next to the hut along with two club anglers. They'd landed three by midnight but we still hadn't had any luck. My son switched to a double setup with an intermediate tip and was rewarded on his second cast by a lovely silver 5-6lb hen who put up a good fight.

We carried on fishing but stopped when my son hooked the second of two bats. The first one was killed on the forward cast which was upsetting. The second one, about 30 mins later was badly injured and my son managed to hook himself and get bitten by the bat when he tried to unhook it. We decided to stop as we didn't want to hook any more bats as there were a lot of them flying around us.

The next day was largely taken up by a visit to A&E organising rabies vaccinations for my son.

1 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

3 Chub

Rained all morning which dampened spirits, recent cold weather put the fish off. Chub came to feeder and pellet on lower section

5 Chub

2 Trout

water still very low (up 5 cm) , heavy rain and high winds, barbel 8 lb to 9 lb 9 oz, chub to 4 lb , feeder, soft baits helped pull out of snags

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

In the description is mentions 1.5 miles of River, however a lot of the river is behind barbed wire fences and most of the banks are over grown making access very difficult - once you eventually find an entry point to the river you then have a few 100 yards of fishing before having to exit eithe due to silt or too deep to wade or both, exit through the undergrowth to find another entry point. This beat is so neglected and might better fished in the Winter or after and "agent orange" raid - we did manage to catch a few graying, not tront caught or seen. Did not fish the upper part through the woods as I left my machette at home - not sure I will be back. 8 Grayling caught mostly on PTN's

8 Grayling

My 1st time fishing on the Edw and 1st time wild stream fishing. I loved it, its a cracking river and I will be back to do it again. I caught 3 wee browns all on Adams para dry at the heads of pools in the ruffled bit. Also missed a couple of very quick sub surface nymph takes.
The water was low and very clear and I must have frightened dozens of fish which I saw scappering off in all directions.
I saw maybe half a dozen feeding fish in total and I think if the water was a foot higher and pushing through a bit quicker I might have caught more. A very enjoyable few hours.

3 Trout

1 Trout

2 Trout