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This is a truly challenging fishery not for the faint hearted the top end of the fishery has a few places where you can fish comfortably, the rest of the fishery is truly wild.
My wife fished at the top end of the fishery and I chose to roam the rest of the fishery.
I did see some huge chub in several places maybe over 6 pounds and several large barbel into double figures.
But on the day we only managed to catch 5 chub the biggest at a little over 4 pounds still a great day and thoroughly enjoyable.
Many Thanks, Julie + Keith

Caught three barbel to just under 8lb and three chub to 4lb between the two rods. River very low and clear. Very tentative bites. Plenty of salmon crashing throughout the whole beat all day long.

4 Trout 8" to 12". All returned safely. Excellent location, good fish stocks visible. Wide range of flies hatching.

1 WBT Adams Dry. 1 WBT + 2 Sal Parr on sedge dry.

We got four each or so with a few parr to wet patterns fished fine and far off downstream. It was low and clear and sunny, so not promising conditions-but what a lovely beat. The trout we got were fine specimens -biggest was 9 inches. Saw others bigger, but they saw us coming and were easily lined. Saw one WBT of very good proportions halfway up R1 in a long glide-easily pushing 2 feet long-it rose once majestically and then cleared off when my leader got near it...

Been in the area a week nearly and only seen one other angler-incredible.............

Having fished here 2 weeks ago, we thought we knew pretty much what to expect.
The river however was even lower than last time and it was extremely bright and hot with very little cloud for most of the day.
We started the morning in the area of the orchard and really struggled in the conditions with just 2 small barbel and 7 or 8 chub between us.
We broke for lunch back at the car at about 2.00pm then returned back to the same swims we'd been fishing on the basis that we'd put in a fair amount of bait over the past five hours, and we didn't really fancy any of the other areas in those conditions.
It was now even hotter and we were anticipating a gruelling afternoon.
For some reason the barbel disagreed and we were stunned to start catching barbel immediately. We ended up with a further 20 barbel between us, average size was probably 5 - 6lb with a biggest weighed for refernce at 8lb 12oz. We also had approx 30 chub including some really nice fish with one of about 5lb and the majority averaging 3 - 4lbs - much higher average size than we've found on other stretches.
Virtually every barbel and chub caught was absolutely immaculate with fantastic colouration unlike some we've caught elsewhere - possibly because this is still a relatively new stretch?
Quite literally a brilliant day - and we have the sunburn to prove it!

A bit dissappointing although to be fair conditions were not ideal with the river clear and the weather sunny.

In total 2 barbel of 9lb and 7lb 5oz from one swim and 2 chub in the region of 4lb from another were caught.

All three of us though are willing to return when the conditions are more favourable.

Fished on a hot day, river low so no barbel. 6 chub to 4lbs on pellet and paste from a number of swims. At the bottom of the beat a swimmer was making his way up river. I had to pull my rig out of his way. I called out to find if he payed the £15 like me for the use of the beat, he turned round and made his way down river.

7 brown trout to 9" and 2 grayling 8". All fish on #20 dropper under #18 humpy. Water very-very low.

Fished different swims and moved up and down, but only one barbel and 4 chub between us, the fish do not seem to be feeding, but still a good and enjoyable day.