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Last....hang on , it was sunday last week not saturday , the river was a couple of feet up and I had to don my chesties in order to get out to the area i'm usually able to reach in my thigh waders. I'd forotton how much of a hasstle it is when you want a slash and your wearing chest waders! The water felt cold and to be honest I wasn't expecting much, so I was surprised to hook something solid after only a few trotts through. I won't harp on about how I got a piece of wood shaving in my eye after cattying out the first pouch of maggots, or how I had to walk back to the car and try to swill my eye out with half a small bottle of water that had been in the car since june!, or the rain, the downstream wind,etc etc. Anyhow, within a couple of hours (that includes the time it took to walk back to the car etc, oh, and re-tie my hook after it hooked a large twig on one of my fist casts) I did ok and had six barbel and some xxl dace as a by product, several pic's from the session....

I've fished for the last two saturdays in a row, week before last I caught five small barbel and some chub... .

It's been fishing its socks off for whatever reason. The 'sludge' as you call it is dependent on the winter weather, there one year and gone the next. Things aren't perfect but the bream and the rudd are back in large numbers. The perch are also doing well but the pike fishing is a shadow of what it was, seals, ignorance and poor handling practices.