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Tried different swims to our usual area for a change and enjoyed a few fish on a windy afternoon/evening. Pellet and bomb tactics and used some hemp too in a near bank swim.

River up about a foot on normal level. Wildlife included egrets and gooseanders.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fantastic days fishing.

7 Barbel, 26 Chub

5 fish

5 Trout

4

4 Trout

2 Barbel, 32 Chub

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Lovely venue, barbel not showing but chub happy to oblige on boilie.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Turned up at The Court of Noke beat just before six ,day seemed like September, dull overcast and really blustery later on !!!! Balsam has grown ballistic here and lots of trees down, actually really messy compared to what this lovely beat used to be like three or four years ago !!!! Lots of work to be done here to get it back to scratch!!!!

Onto the fishing , not a lot of surface activity ,but has some great fun with a caddis pattern and aqua baetis nymph , good confident pulls on them., and some lunkers too the net this morning , nothing really small, five of the fish between ten and thirteen inches , really fat strong fish too !!!!

My last one , its lie I shall keep a mystery ,had me a real run around in the deep deep water ,I thought I was into a chubb ,only to reveal itself to be a gorgeous brownie, must have pushed two and a half pounds , an absolute lump, and I'm guessing twenty , perhaps twenty two inches ,a beaut !!! My best wild streams brownie for a while!!! Rested him for a minute in the net , then off he went , and if I still smoked , that would gave been the time to spark up a tab , with a shaking hand lol !!!!!

A fun few hours , with six Noke beauties to the net , got out by the bridge in somewhat disbelief, superb to net such a leviathan!!! Oh on a bit of a sour note did spook two comorants on the way down, would have made a perfect double for the Beretta !!! A great morning ,back here soon . . . . .

6 Trout

First time on this beat and had a brilliant session. Fished from 5am till 11am. Had a few nice chub early on up to about 4lb. Then an hour later I had a very positive bite and struck into what I thought was a decent barbel at first as it tore off up stream stripping line. Then after a good old scrap I managed to pull him up to the surface for a look and it was in fact a big common carp. Never had a river carp before and Christ do they fight. Played him for about 45 mins on fairly light tackle. Heart was racing. Convinced he was going to snag me but managed to net him eventually despite getting very wet in the process including my boots. Gave him a few minutes to rest in the net and noticed he only had one eye. A proper old river warrior of 18lb. Over the moon.

Then not long after had a barbel of just over 8lb. And then a flurry of nice chub again before packing up. All fish caught on 12mm sticky krill dumbbells. Fished about 2/3rds of the way out. Used hemp and mixed pellet for ground bait. Normal feeder tactics.

Beautiful place to fish with many accessible swims. Fantastic stretch and will certainly be back.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Angler 1 Angler 2
Bait used Garden worm Bait used Garden worm
Number of trout caught 0 Number of trout caught 1
water very low Water very Low

1 Trout