The Stour at Throop is low, clear and has copious amounts of weed, all entirely usual for this time of the year. Fortunately it is a good 12ins higher than this time last season but needs some summer storms to freshen it up. As Mark has said, the recent short lived rainfall have had only short term positive effects.
If you "do" Facebook there is an unofficial Throop Fishery page with up to date information on it (ignore the odd post about seeing numbers of 8lbs/9lbs chub
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So far this summer the barbel fishing has continued the recent year on year improvement with some excellent fish coming out. The chub fishing continues at a pace with most in typical summer condition. However, the majority of the better results have gone to anglers able to fish late afternoon into dusk and the 1st hour after sunset Sadly the typical B&B or long distance traveller has often packed up and left well before that time.
I've hardly fished Throop this season save for a couple of evening sessions as I've been favouring club sections of the Avon well above Royalty with some good results with chub and dace. Not fished the Royalty for a while but reports of it's death are widely exaggerated!
Here's a link to an article what I wrote describing "my" Throop:
https://ringwoodfishing.co.uk/files/cms/throop_1.pdf
It ends towards the close of the 2017/18 season so reasonably up to date. My 2018/19 season (Autumn/Winter) on there was more successful in terms of quantity but the numbers of really big chub of previous seasons typically eluded me