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5 x grayling 11-14 inches, 9 x out of season trout 6-13 inches. All on dry Grayling Steel Blue with a couple on French leader nymphs at the end. Made a late start, expecting any hatch to be after lunch, but on arrival found pale wateries already on the move. Also willow fly and a few dark olives as the day went on. But, a majority of the rises turned out to be from mostly small trout - grayling somewhat reluctant to come up. Pretty quiet by 4 o'clock. 1 foot showing on the gauge, still with that peat stain in the water. Still warm - summer goes on.

5 Grayling

Day started badly when I discovered I had lost a leg off my chair. Did not improve when, after a fruitless search for leg, overcast conditions turned to long sunny periods. Water very low and clear. Fished fast water opposite island with pellet, meat and maggots with feeder. No bites so moved upstream to deeper water. Still very quiet until I had a couple of chub 2 - 3lb on meat as darkness fell. Saved me from a complete blank, but not a sniff of a barbel. Disappointing.

2 Chub

Lovely Autumn day, river still low and a bit of streamer weed drifting through which means regular re-casting to remove that. Kingfisher made frequent passes as did canoes which were mostly organised groups who behaved impeccably. Excitement as one group of three small children rolled into the river and parents struggled to retrieve and dry them off.
Fish very obliging, taking pellets below a feeder at extended intervals through the day. All the chub were over 4lbs with the largest a new pb for me at 6-02 (thought at first it was a carp with such strong bronze colouring) and in perfect condition. 8lb Barbel was a stunner and capped off a very enjoyable day.
Looking forward to next trip. Thanks WUF.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

BBeautiful day, gin clear water. Lot of BT and grayling sipping and splashing. Had 8 takes to small k klinkhammers but failed to connect securely to any of them.

Fishing on worms and spinning, no catch on the day.

A foggy start gave way to a lovely mild autumn day and it was really good to be out fishing. With a little more water in the river it was surprising that the fish were reluctant to feed and we both had to work hard and move around for bites. Late in the day a little flurry gave us three barbel and two chub to add to two barbel caught before lunch.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

6 barbel biggest 10.8lb, remainder 5-7.5lb. All fish in morning and evening on pellet feeder fished mid-river at a swim at the top end. Had to contend with 50+ Canadian Geese in swim but persevered! Accompanied by Kingfishers, Wrens, Herons, Pheasants and the occasional Cormorant (unfortunately). Nice low level flypast by a couple of RAF Tornados too! Than you WUF.

6 Barbel

All on legered luncheon meat. Best barbel 9lb 6oz, best chub 5lb 4oz. All bites in afternoon once mist had cleared.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

River was low although carrying some colour following recent rain. We fished numerous swims and struggled to find any feeding fish. SB took a 9lb 4oz barbel on pellet from the top of the stretch and also lost one. RB found a few barbel to 7lb in the middle section late afternoon.
All in all a tough day but thoroughly enjoyable as ever.

4 Barbel

Dry fly and nymph used, from rod and tenkara.
Very little sign of any fish although the river had a few pools, those caught were very small. Most of this beat is slow moving and canal-like. Access to the river is very difficult and some of the good pools are not accessible.
There s not enough fishing on this beat for three rods and the price does not represent value for money.

5 Grayling