Lets just pretend I never went fishing! All was looking good as I tackled up, barbel in the swim feeding, nice warm weather! It was perfect, untiL in my excitement at having a group of large barbel feeding confidently in front of me I completely mis-cast and launched my Dave Harrel barbel missile at the speed of well, a missile straight into the center of them. Needless to say they buffered off in a flash not to be seen again all day despite giving them 6/7 hours before I tried to coax them back out of hiding.
Did catch lots and lots and lots of trout though and they put the new rod and reel through it's paces in the fast water, very happy with both!
Will have to stop off after work tomorrow and hope I can tempt them to feed just long enough to snare one, feeling a bit (ok very) deflated right now as I was so confident!