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First trip to this beat and I was very impressed by the amount of water and accessibility of the swims. Unfortunately the conditions for this trip were far from ideal with a very cold dawn and then bright sunshine all day. We fished a number of swims in leg meadow with only a minnow to show for our efforts.
As the day drew on we gambled on what I hoped would be some faster water in the last swim of boat pool. We managed 5 Barbel and 5 Chub between us on pellet feeder tactics and lost one larger fish. Barbel between 6-8 Lb Chub up to 3Lb.
As an aside a big thank you to the other angler on the beat who having fished Courtfield before was very happy to offer advice and a few bolies too.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fished all day long, barbel to 9 lb 3 oz, club to3 lb 8 oz. Weather hot and bright making it hard fishing but great fun.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

Tough day on this scenic stretch. Cold night followed by bright sunshine didn't help. One bite, one Chub on meat.

1 Chub

Another extremely bright day following a cold night resulted in a tough days fishing. 3 barbel and 1 chub to PW while CS and SC managed only 1 chub each. Bomb and pellet or meat brought the fish. A lovely length but probably needs extra water to bring out the best in it.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Caught 5 fish altogether, 4 to dry fly and one to size 18 gold head nymph, a very nice last trout fishing excursion of the year.
All fish were returned.

5 Trout

Lovely day fishing again on this beat fished further up stream under Lyonhall Park wood. Two beautifull brown trout on dry fly. Nice end to the season one trout 10 inches, one 11 inches.

2 Trout

The water was low and clear, so fine and far off was the tactic. There were a few flies hatching, but not enough to bring the fish up.All of the fish came to tungsten nymphs.
A lovely looking beat with plenty of fish holding water.

4 Trout

The river was a lot lower and clearer than expected. Had planned to fish using maggots and trotting a float through various swims in order to try catch a barbel on the float. However, didn't catch any barbel but plenty of small chub but only two of any real size. Stayed in the wood block all day, probably should have moved.

2 Chub

Lovely weather, one small trout on pheasant tail nymph.

1 Trout

Llyn Em has been kind to me this season. Two more today - 10lbs hen and 15lbs cock on size 12 Bann shrimp. Lost a third after 5 minutes without gaining any line and perhaps 50 yards backing gone. Leader was cut on gutter wall. Would like to have at least seen this one !

2 Salmon, 1 Trout