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Lovely water no fish caught but a few seen not necessarily before they saw me. The water was low but a good flow with fish in the deep pools.

Last minute decision to give Courtfield a go with my brother after finishing work earlier, started at 15:00 fished till 21:00, 2 small barbel caught using pva bags both came within 10 minutes of each other after 19:00. Pva bags filled with hinders pellets & dumbell hookbaits. My brother blanked.

2 Barbel

One chub caught on krill boilie with mixed pellet pva bag

1 Chub

Not even a pull from a trout and nothing showing

River low and clear, not much weed though which was surprising . Small chub caught in swim opposite deck chair area, but nothing else from that swim.
A swim just downstream from the beach, produced a lovely barbel just over 10 lb, late in afternoon from the deeper fast flowing middle section, on feeder with pellets and boiled hook bait.
Conditions difficult but access very good in dry weather.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Great day, I asked for an accessible stretch of water suitable for a geriatric angler and Allyson chose very well for me! So many thanks to her. A windy day with the breeze blowing downstream so not ideal. I tried spiders and French Nymphing; the latter taking all my fish the best of which was a beautiful brown trout of a little over two pounds; fin perfect and feisty. All fish on a gold bead hares ear. Thoroughly enjoyed my day.

4 Trout

Had a great salmon casting lesson with Jonathan Morris,he sorted out some faults and left me feeling much more proficient.
I had 2 small brownies one on an olive,one on a nymph,a happy man returned to Sussex.

2 Trout

Saw nothing, touched nothing, it wasn't the greatest day for the catching fish part of fishing as it was a lovely early autumn bright day with low clear water, but it still beat staying in the office where I would have been looking at spreadsheets all afternoon.

Lovely day, water is low talking with a gentleman clearing the banks he reckons well over a meter below it’s normal level, I struggled with nymphs catching the bottom. A few rises through out the day and the three fish falling to dry flies.

1 Trout, 2 Chub

4 Barbel, 1 Chub