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Hot, clear water, caught on meat, others were eels.

12 Chub, 2 Other

1 Barbel, 15 Chub

Another scorching day. The water below the woods was choked with Renaculus Weed and barely moving, so my only option was to fish from the rocks in the wooded area where the water was fast moving and in the shade. I started well catching Chub but the swim was very uncomfortable. Out of the blue at 14:15 I caught an 8lb Barbel, after which I lost my terminal tackle on the next three casts. I wasn't happy with the swim, so deciding I had done well in difficult conditions I packed up.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Another great day at this beat. Despite a 6 am start, someone was already in the Lucky Stone peg. I fished the next peg down, lovely and shaded in the trees all day. I had caught 29 chub and two eels before the only barbel of the day showed up! Light feeder and pellet. A switch to float fished meat rounded the day off with another half dozen chub. The guy fishing above me had a few barbel I believe. No complaints though, an action packed day.

1 Barbel, 35 Chub, 2 Other

Walk good for the heart fishing is good for the mind nice ????

7 Barbel, 9 Chub

River very low and weedy! Had to use roving tactics to get any success.......i caught only Chub and my fishing buddy caught the Barbel.....biggest was just under 9lb. River desperately needs a good flush through! All fish caught on pellet and feeder tactics.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

Had another great day down the Wye. Conditions were challenging as the river level was low and the weather was very hot. All caught on hair rigged pellet.

1 Barbel, 33 Chub, 1 Other

River low and clear. Started fishing around 8am and netted a barbel around 5lb on my 2nd cast. A busy day then ensued with lots of knocks with the odd strikable bite.

Finished the day with 3 barbel, the biggest felt 10lb plus but I'd left my scales at home, and 17 chub, the biggest around 4lb. Still going strong at 3.30pm when i had to head home. All fish taken on luncheon meat on feeder in the wooded section.

A thoroughly enjoyable day.

3 Barbel, 17 Chub

SG , MH and SM make there annual pilgrimage to Fownhope 5 and boy did it not disappoint! , Probably the best days chub fishing we will ever experience . Perfect weather and good river conditions all set in stunning scenery.
SG finished with 34 chub best 6lb and 6 barbel fishing the 1st swim in the woods , MH finished with 56 chub and 3 eels fishing the first field , But best of all SM finished with an incredible 75 chub, best 6.4lb and 2 barbel, average size of the chub was around the 4lb mark making a conservative 300lb bag of fish !!. This came from the lucky stone peg and most of these fish were caught on the float using red pellets, which complimented the fishes natural diet of cherries from the trees above the river.
All in all a fantastic days fishing for all 3 of us , one which we will never forget thank you wye and Usk.

8 Barbel, 165 Chub, 3 Other

Halibut pellets on hair, barbel ground bait. We found that the ground bait attracted the chub and we caught the barbel at times when we didn’t use the ground bait for a while. We accidentally caught a small eel and also saw another one in the margins. Large fish were jumping throughout our two days on this incredible river.

3 Barbel, 23 Chub, 1 Other