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No fish caught. One fish seen in Stone Catch.

1 Grayling

1 small brown trout caught on wet fly and released back to water. Many thanks.

1 Trout

30 Barbel, 1 Chub

Unfortunately we arrived too late in the day to fish this beat. However I did take a look - and there's plenty of water to fish - and from mainly grassed banks... Although it did look snaggy in some of the more likely swims!
I would call it more than a short walk down to the river though. And quite a long way further if you want to fish at the far end of the beat... That's why I decided against it at 4:30 in the afternoon.

River was low and clear and a very bright sunny day made fishing difficult. Both fish caught on pellets.

2 Barbel

As other posts have stated the far bank is lined with angers from Birmingham AA and while we understand WUF cannot guarantee exclusivity it does get frustrating having paid double the going rate to find a large proportion of the opposite bank full, even midweek.
A man walking his dog told us that the landowner of the opposite bank was not too happy with the opposite bank being very busy with some anglers fishing into darkness.
Moan over.
Similar weather to the previous 2 days did not help the fishing and the 3 of us struggled aside from the 4 fish in total we caught. Picturesque the venue maybe but the change of use of the far bank will ensure we will not be booking this length again.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Weather was bright and sunny all day with river running clear and quite slow so adopted the trotting and light feeder tactics. No surface weed or debris although there is light subsurface weed running through but it didn't detract. Looking towards the Island Pool where the river widens it looked really impressive, it will stop you in your tracks, and a fantastic area to fish. Unfortunately not a lot of swim access to that part so we fished the Mill Pool and towards the Pump Pool area as the swims were well set out.
Didn't have time to fish the upper stretch as only there two days. This beat really does leave you spoilt for choice and does cater for the wandering approach. Biggest barbel to 8lbs and nice perch to 1 1/2lb. All fish caught on maggot. Awesome venue which has left a lasting impression. Plenty of buzzard action and even what looked like a mink . Thanks WUF.

1 Trout, 7 Barbel, 4 Chub, 4 Other

High pressure in charge this day - river quite low-but ideal for dry fly activity. Fished for five hours from 11am. Only one 10 inch trout came to hand but managed to rise but not land two better fish. Good head of pin fry evident.

1 Trout

Cold bright day ... one on a nymph klink and dink and one on a sedge

2 Trout