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A second difficult day on a very low and clear river, started in the wood and floatfished bead again hoping for a chub or two. One bite was all I could muster off a nice fish that shed the hook halfway in! I then sat trying for a barbel but no bites were forthcoming so in the afternoon a move to the top field was tried as there were no anglers on the other side again. I started o the float and bread but could not raise a bite anywhere I tried in the top field. I spent the rest of the afternoon fishing for babel in a couple of swims and eventually having just the single fish around the 5lbs mark late in the day. Feeder and pellet the method. (possibly the wrong one?)
I did remove a large amount of line off the bank that some moron had left, they had clearly stripped it off their reel and stuffed it into the grass, why? Surely it is nothing to pop it into your bag and take it home? With the number of people that walk dogs on this particular stretch it is asking for problems if this type of thing happens.

1 Barbel

Fishing was slow. One Barbel caught at 2 pm that weighed 5 lb.

1 Barbel

Fished the lower beat caught 4 Barbel upto 8 1/2lb & 11 Good Chub upto 4 1/2lb.

4 Barbel, 11 Chub

Arrived to find the river was quite low and clear, and opted for the lower beat. Here I was greeted by the sight of two young otters playing mid-river until mum ushered them away on sensing my presence. There were no mad feeding spells today, but I steadily accumulated a pleasing catch of 10 barbel up to 8lb 4oz. It was very slow to begin with, with no bites for the first three hours, then a steady spell of bites in the middle part of the day, before another dead spell followed by a steady run of bites in the evening. I kept ringing the changes with various types, sizes and shapes of pellet to keep the bites coming. There were quite a number of salmon showing, including one or two larger specimens. I can't help feeling these are keeping the otters well fed, as despite the presence of at least four of our furry friends including the large dog otter, there are still considerable numbers of barbel in the beat, and with little or no sign of otter damage to them.

10 Barbel

This was our second day on the Wye and after a disappointing day at Sugwas we were hoping things would improve. This was our first time at Fownhope and again a lovely stretch of water. We tackled cardiac hill, I'm sure it's a breeze for the fit angler but I would definitely recommend anglers to travel light. We started up in the woods but with the low water struggled to get a bite. We then walked up stream into the open field where the river was deeper and soon started to get bites. We ended up with three barbel biggest 9.3lb and two chub again biggest around 4.0lb all caught on luncheon meat. I'm sure with more water in the river we could have caught more but nevertheless a very enjoyable day.
Thank you W&U

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful day on this beat. A lovely Autumn day, plus caught 5 good Barbel and 5 nice Chub on the feeder.
All Barbel were 6lb to 8lb, Chub from 2lb to 4lb. Wonderful day.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Good conditions, caught in different swims mostly on luncheon meat.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Red letter day on the Wye, barbel galore up to 11lb an chub up to 6lb, majority of fish taken on big 15 mm boilies and various size pellets, we all fished from the woods an there's plenty of swims too, good access an the walk to the woods isn't as bad as people make out, take plenty of bait with you, you'll need it!!

43 Barbel, 16 Chub

First time on this stretch, initially fished the first swim by the hut. After a fishless two hours moved over the hill to d/stream of the woods. Caught throughout the afternoon and evening in a couple of different swims. All fish caught on pellets/PVA bag method. All fish between 3lb 8oz and 6lb 8oz apart from the best at 8lb 2oz.
Great day.

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

The river looked good with a bit of colour still in it, CH went into the woods and had 4 although lost lots of tackle, BT had 1 in the middle of the first field and I had 3 and a couple of chub from by the hut, thanks to the young lad who put me right later in the afternoon and rescued my day, all fish on the normal methods and bait, pellet feeder.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub