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2 rods fished for 7 barbel and 16 chub caught on a variety of meat and pellet baits

First day of a 3 day visit to the Wye, Neil and I caught 40 barbel to 8lb 2oz & 17 chub, with most of the fish being caught from the last few pegs, all on pellet. WE have fished the beat before and caught all along the beat but with the river very low and clear the fish seem to have shoaled up as we only had 4 of the barbel and 6 chub away from the last pegs, once we found the fish we had a wonderful days fishing, & once again many thanks to W.U.F for their excellent service.

Started off on the upper stretch had 3 barbel and a few chub, after a chat with Colin the ghillie I moved further down stream just after the bend and had a further 6 barbel the largest around 8lbs, Had a great day and will return soon.

Back on the Wye and Usk beats for second trip of the season.
Fished with my son today and had a very enjoyable day in warm sunshine. The river was low and clear and fish were more difficult to temp during the day than on my previous trip but the fish were feeding hard for the last hour before dusk and we finished with 30 Barbel and 21 Chub between us.

This was my fourth day of the season so far and my tally is now 110 Barbel 53 Chub. What a fantastic river the Wye is, thank you W&U for making it possible.

30 odd chub and barbel on float and ledger. Absolutely fantastic day, fantastic organisation, we'll be back very soon - can't wait. Thank you.

2 rods fished 4.30pm - dusk on Thursday 11th and all day Friday 12th, one a relatively experienced Barbel fisherman and the other hoping to catch his first Barbel. On Thursday we caught 17 Chub and 6 Barbel between us - naturally the biggest Barbel at 8:12 fell to the beginner! The fish went really mad for the last hour.

On Friday we caught 18 Chub and 8 Barbel between us - fishing was OK throughout the day, but oddly the river went completely dead from 7.00pm when the full moon rose above the horizon and we didn't get a bite after that point.

A handful of chub and a brace of barbel. Struggled to find barbel willing to come out to play in the low clear conditions. One out of the blue mid afternoon but otherwise no sense of barbel activity until sunset. I suspect the other angler fishing the "hot" swim fared rather better. He did kindly invite me to fish close by, but I thought the shoal in that swim gets enough of a pasting as it is, and tried a few other swims which had produced for me in the past. Always a pleasure to be out on the river in such glorious surroundings.

Moved about a bit to find the fish, between 2 rods 4 chuib and 3 barbel, quite a few bites but not connecting, enjoyable day.

Fished from first light, weather bit wet. Started off fishing the cable crib pool no joy so moved round to the pot pool 10ish no joy either but notice lots of slugs so put one on a 4 size hook and had a take but lost it then went down to the bottom of the island and free line slug and took maybe 25 plus chub from the far bank not Barbel but what a mornings fishing. Took 3 Barbel and 2 chub from same place in the evening.

Heavy low cloud and rain through most of the day.
Chub were voracious in there attacks on the baits soon as they hit the water good fish 4-5 lb. Barbel fed later in the day ended with 15 Barbel and 18 Chub.
Very damp but very happy!
Thanks W&Usk for 3 days coarse fishing heaven.