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Great day on a beautiful beat. Hard graft for 6 chub in the sunshine. Lost a couple of monsters - maybe barbel but both hook pulled. Best results just downstream of the treeline parking. Meat or cheese. Well worth a visit!

6 Chub

13 Chub, 2 Other

3 hours evening started in bright sun built swim for 30 mins with hemp and small pellets
2nd cast barbel maybe 6lb then nothing till sun dropped.
Cracking evening nice to be back on the whiskers again.

3 Barbel

New venue for me, went to scout and fished for couple of hrs this evening. Nice venue, instructions clear on map etc, U-tube video helped. Blank only avoided by eel that picked up flavoured meat at 8pm. But will certainly keep trying.

1 Other

Fished the evening. 4 chub and a decent Barbel lost. Lovely venue

4 Chub

1 Trout

The water was very low and I caught nothing. However the access was poor and heavily overgrown and was very hard going.
I also saw two young mink near the railway bridge.

A lovely stretch, fished last swim on left hand bank. Fairly steady though had a few baron hours in the afternoon when the sun was strong and of course low water levels. Probably should have tried a bit of trotting but difficult when sharing a swim. Barbel didn't show but a good stamp of Chub so an enjoyable day.

9 Chub

A cooler day than of late with a bit of welcome cloud cover. The river low but in great Nick… no slime anywhere and weed growth showing. Water temp 17.5 when we arrived 11.30 … 18 by 15.00 and 18.5 by 17.00. Water level dropped by an inch over this time was dam water being released?

We hoped for a hatch but nothing consistent forthcoming… plenty of sedges and gnats around though … a few spinners first thing and occasional duns in the evening were the only ephemera.

Fish sporadically rising throughout the day although not in the usual places. 10 trout between us up to 16” all heavily spotted beauties and 5 grayling including 3 in the 16-19” size range which we haven’t seen for a couple of years. With the water so clear every stone on the bottom was visible even in the deep runs but the grayling just appear out of nowhere . Magical!

All fish taken on usual parachute dries and all swam away strongly ….

10 Trout, 5 Grayling

Hard going in the full sunlight, Barbel all came in last hour .

6 Barbel, 18 Chub