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All caught on meat. A good half day day in fair weather conditions. A nice beat.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Warm, overcast day with sunny intervals. We had not fished this stretch before but the river looked in good shape. Most of the chub were caught on float fished 8mm pellets and bread flake and all were all quality fish in the 2lb to 4lb range with a couple pushing 5lb and every swim we fished on both banks produced fish. The barbel were caught on the left bank, 3 from the very last swim and 4 from a swim in the middle of the length. They were caught on 8mm Robin Red pellets and Source boilies and all were between 5lb and 7lb and all in excellent condition. An excellent day on a excellent stretch of river.

7 Barbel, 31 Chub

The day started off overcast and showers, started off in the swim at bottom of fishery, a little tight with over hanging trees. Started to fish with pellet and groundbait with a few little bites, changed to bread crust and the chub started to bite.
What a lovely day fishing for chub but unfortunately no barbel. The water was rising and the sun started to come out so left at 3.30pm. This will be a great winter fishery with the amount of chub.

24 Chub

My friend caught his first barbel and I caught a river load of chub on fly.

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

No barbel today but my friend caught a small river carp. I had a lot of chub on the fly and on bread crust. This is a small, well kept productive stretch. We will be back.

20 Chub, 1 Other

River was low and fairly slow flowing, we fished a ground bait feeder with 1 foot hook length all fish fell to luncheon meat. The largest fish was 3lb 9oz.

8 Chub

River was low and clear but fished well in the morning then turned quiet in the afternoon. Most fish came to pellets feeder tactics.

1 Barbel, 23 Chub

Great to be back on this well maintained but small stretch again and a good days fishing. Fished four hours early morning and four in the afternoon/early evening. Usual variety of baits used and caught on all. Many thanks.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Started fishing about half way down on the left hand bank (as you look from the bridge). Loose fed handfuls of pellet with a selection of ledgered hook baits (8-14mm halibut pellets, 8mm robin red, code red boilies, peperami etc)some wrapped in paste, some not, but despite a few bites, nothing hooked until 3pm when I swapped to the float rod and trotted a big chunk of crust down and hooked a nice chub (2lb or so) within seconds.
Moved further down to the last swim just in the faster water and alternated between float and ledger rod. Had 1 Barbel of 8lb and another nice Chub on the ledger rod but the rest of the fish came to bread on the float. All Chub were in 2-3lb range and only stopped fishing when I ran out of bread (only took a couple of rolls because they were out of date!). Next time I would take a couple of crusty loaves and mashed bread and really focus on trotting instead of sitting watching a motionless rod tip.
River was low and clear with good access down from the banks with steps down to most swims. Parking within a few metres of the start of the beat makes this perfect for the lazy amongst us and the bridge gives a good vantage point to survey the river.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

A great days fishing, fish on all day. Ten or so chub caught on float rod with trotting bread flake. The rest cought on ledger with luncheon meat and pellet.

1 Barbel, 20 Chub