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Blankety blank I'm afraid. Not another soul in site till about 3.15 in the afternoon...................we left at 4pm because we had to get back to open the fridge, if you know what i mean. Anyway, got 5 mins down the road and the heavens opened for the rest of the day, i guess the 3 guys who arrived to fish got a little wet. Still raining heavily this morning when i left Lyneham.

Queens field at Lacock turned out to be the recommended place to fish, did a recce on the Friday afternoon. Not another angler in sight. Plenty of swims which look they would hold barbel. Fished the first field to start and then worked our way upstream to the two next fields and dropped in just about every swim we could. Tried a multitude of baits as well as some very modest pre-baiting. Hell of alot of walking involved, i was truly knackered after that session.

Got the odd knocks from chub, you would basically just get one knock and then they would leave it alone, just goes to show how pressured the fish seem to be on this stretch as the chub where i fish are suicidal most of the time and the rod is in constant motion from the greedy blighters. The part of the river up by the Abbey gets hammered even more so i was told. Must say i won't be going there again in a hurry. There seems oodles of river to go at and I'm sure there is ample opportunity to do some pioneering work on this river rather than go to where everybody else goes. But when your on a 1 day visit you have to go where you know there are some barbel i guess. Maybe later in the year when the weed has died down "i might return" and give it a go, much further upstream towards Lyneham. The pickings here may be slim, but, a fish from along this stretch would be pretty special.

Thanks for the advice recieved from shippo, in premier angling and from Tom12481 on the riverbank.

Bob