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River still up and well coloured but dropping throughout the day. The fish came in patches throughout the day, most notably early morning and late afternoon. We expected the usual flurry of activity around dusk but this failed to materialise. Otter seen at the upper end of the beat.

13 Barbel, 9 Chub

As before fished early and late. In the am fished the gutters above hellrig, Hellrig itself and then the house pool. There are fish there with a fish about 18lb showing a lot. In the evening tried the bridge pool and on the dusk back to the house pool to try for the showing fish. No luck at all.

first trip to this stretch and found the swims difficult to access.

1 Chub

River up but looked good so a little disappointed with only 1 x barbel between us.

1 Barbel

river still a bit high, but in excellent conditions. Fished from 9,30 till to 2 pm, and landed 3 graylings. Fished with French nymph technique in the deepest water.

3 Grayling

Fished the morning in the upper most swim, had 4 barbel and loads of chub. Then moved down to the Hut swim and had a few more of each, excellent day's fishing.

6 Barbel, 10 Chub

Good fishing plenty of chub

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

Fished beats four and five from 8am to 8pm. Between the two of us we fished six swims in an effort to find the barbel. One fished pellet with robin red ground bait feeder, the other mainly single boilie on carpet of mixed ground bait.
The wooded swims on beat five produced good chub to 5lb all day. The open swims after the second "S" bend produced just two chub during the day. However as the sun went down four barbel were hooked, all subsequently were lost in some horrid snags which we assume were submerged logs. This section of the river beyond the backwater looks gravelly, with serenely smooth water. Don't be fooled!
Regrettably nowhere else produced barbel so the day ended with a great catch weight of eighteen hard fighting chub. Fish were taken throughout the day and rotating through four or five swims seemed to work best.
We will be back for the barbel very soon. This is a great venue in terrific scenic countryside.

18 Chub

8 Barbel, 4 Chub

What a fantastic place to sit and wait for bites. Scenery and wildlife outstanding. Unfortunately despite what looked like perfect conditions we found it very difficult to locate and catch fish.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 3 Other