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Nice to get on river fished near top end????????

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

Great to be back at the Creel. Always a pleasure to fish this stretch of the Wye. Still one of my favourite venues summer or winter because of the good head of big willing Chub and many swim choices too. Caught plenty of them on the float using bread or meat up to 4.5lb, they seem to go nuts on the loosefed hemp, fighting like crazy to get to the snags, fun on lighter tackle. River was a nice level and colour, thousands of fry down the sides. Whilst the river level is as it is, I cant resist trotting. Funny to see the mandarin ducks chase the float down the river too, comical. Also managed two nice barbel at the end of the day. Perfect day out the office. Thanks again WUF for access to this beat.

2 Barbel, 27 Chub

How lucky were we to get the river in perfect condition just a bit up after last weeks rain and still holding a bit of colour
Caught chub from the very beginning on banded pellet on the waggler, in 40 years fishing I have not had chub of the size and quality as I have had today.
Most of the chub caught were over 3lb and many of them were over 4lb and some were certainly over 5lb they were clearly young fish and were not the battered old warriors you can see, they were all immaculate fin and scale perfect. and a bright golden colour.
Could not catch a barbel on the float but one of my colleagues did catch 3 on feeder fished pellet
What a great day and it is a total pleasure to fish the Wye

3 Barbel, 35 Chub

10.00 start on a warm but cloudy day. Forecast was was shower at start and then another as we were scheduled to pack up. How wrong was that, the rain started at 12.30 and barely stopped until 18.00 when we were packing up.
From previous reports we were expecting access to be an issue which it wasn't at all. We opted for the swim with the steps down in the first field, looked promising and not far to walk, we also fished next swim the other side of the bush. River was low but with slight colour in it. We fished feeder 1/3 way across with 25g enough to hold bottom.
A 3lb+ chub first cast on double sweetcorn started the procession. We only had 1 fish on pellet, most fish falling to meat, but also corn and cheese .
23 chub in total from 4oz to 4.5lb, 18 were over 3lb, of which 6-8 were 4+lb and 5 being under 1lb.
6 barbel to 8.5 lb with 3 on meat and 3 on cheese.
The other was a 6oz dace which took a fancy to 3 pieces of corn on a 12 hook.
Thanks to WUF for enabling access to a wonderful river and great beat, the only potential improvement would be access from the lower end of the beat as it is a long walk. But then again would you walk past these cracking 2 pegs?

6 Barbel, 23 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

HS & DB one 4lb chub, river had risen overnight and was coloured, the riverbed was full of weed which was wooly a bit like candy floss! very few places to fish needs work done to create easier access to swims as the bank is very high

7 Barbel, 5 Chub

Again difficult.

3 Chub, 2 Other

Lovely location ????,hard fishing

3 Chub, 2 Other

The other was a large eel.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other