Well, for all you might think, it's a rather difficult swim.
There used to be a very big overhanging tree just downstream about ten years ago and if you let your stick float drift just under it there was always a big shoal of dace in there. They weren't that big, ½lb at most, but good fun all the same. The tree got uprooted in the 2000 floods and that was the end of the dace.
There's sometime a perch in that swim, but more often than not it's chub. Not enormously big, maybe 6½ - 7lbs, where I caught my 6lbs 12ozs one from. Lots of snags.
I swear that one day the Thames will find a shorter route between Sonning and Maidenhead (goodbye Henley Regatta) and after a couple of thousand years someone will be digging this area up and think they've discovered a lead mine./members/images/6812/Gallery/DSCF0078.JPG
It would be a great swim if some daft barmpot didn't keep standing in it. /forum/smilies/big_smile_smiley.gif