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2 Barbel to 6lbs, water had a slight tinge, weather warm and very wet. Swims very slippery, easy going down, not so easy coming up the bank.

1st rod caught an 8lb barbel and 9 x 1.75lb chub. 2nd rod caught 1 x 3lb chub. 3rd rod - blank. Lovely stretch.

First time on this beat. The four musketeers started out with two fishing the 'Corner Tree' area and two fishing just below the 'Vanstone Pool'. Early results from the 'Corner Tree' were poor returning one Chub. On the other hand the angler fishing lowest at this point 'Ton up Tony' had been smashed up four times by lunchtime. (these bites proved to be his only bites on the day). Just above him 'Two Ton Trev' was having no joy either and both anglers were shedding rigs on the snaggy bottom 'BE AWARE!' 'Jilted John' and 'Bailiff Russ' in the corner swim decided to move downstream in search of the barbel. J settled in to a nice comfortable swim just below Tony and R found his way down a steep section of bank lower down the river. By late afternoon, the heavens opened and R started to return fish to the folds of his net, all on pellet based baits. But like I said, the heavens opened and by the time we started packing up at about 19:00 hrs, the bank that R had found his way down was anything but passable, leaving no way up! Eventually with a long length of rope and two human extensions, R was retrieved. All in all a great days fishing, only returning 6 chub and two barbel (biggest falling, last cast to Trev @ 9lb 4oz) but fantastic fishing nevertheless. All fish caught on fishmeal pellet.
Just be careful when selecting swims in times of inclement weather!

Fish were not really on the feed but managed 8 barbel and 4 chub between us over the 2 days(3 rods in total). Non english speaking poacher found holed out in one of the more overgrown swims. Banks somewhat treacherous with the rain -careful.

Rod 1 caught 5 barbel to 7lbs. Rod 2 caught 3 chub to 4lbs and 5 barbel 9lbs 14 oz (2ozs short!). All fish taken using halibut and hemp mix in swim feeders (many of them) with 8mm halibut pellet on 10 of the 30 or 40 hook links used between the two rods over the 12 hour session. Fortunately weather and canoe traffic both favourable. 2 of the barbel were hooked and landed with an audience of canoeists so that blows one of my well used excuses out of the water. Salmon very active throughout the day. Sadly have to support comments made in earlier reports about the amount of discarded equipment, mono etc on the bank and empty sweet corn can in the water in the margin (?) but that could have come downstream from non-WUF beats.

Many thanks to the WUF for making such enjoyable fishing possible.

Fished on the 2nd 3rd and 4th Sept. 1st day had 1 barbel 8lb 4oz - lost 2. Had 2 chub to 5lb 1oz. 2nd day 4 barbel to 8lb 2oz and 2 chub. 3rd day 7 barbel to 8lb 3oz plus 2 chub, all caught on pellet boilie combinations. All the fish bar 2 came from the lesser fished swims, enjoyed the fishing, always something to think about, will return.

River about 1ft up and fining down after the weekend flood water. Fished from 3pm - 8pm. Only saw half a dozen canoes. Had a barbel on the third cast using hemp and groundbait feeder with pellet hookbait. No free offerings. Caught steadily up to 12 fish, biggest went 8lb exactly. Great to catch fish in bright sunlight. They all fought and went back really well with the fresh water in the river. Many thanks WUF!

Unfortunately no fish caught despite the river looking very good with extra water and very coloured. Having fished here before we tried all the usual swims but the constant rubbish coming down the river at all levels made fishing very difficult even with heavy leads. We finished up fishing tight in to near bank until dusk with no success. All the usual baits were tried,just one of those days really.The previous day by all accounts the river fished brilliantly. Typical!

First trip to the Wye for 40 years. No barbel or Indian Balsam in those days. Memories of trying to hold bottom with a spilt cane rod and arlesey bomb in a chocolate coloured torrent were still vivid. I arrived to find the river chocolate colour but not too much of a torrent! Found a swim - didn't fancy going into the water as couldn't see the bottom and on own - a bit rudimentary but looks good. Tried various baits and had a barbel earlier on a boilie 6lb 1oz my first barbel ever believe it or not. Hooked 2 without detecting bites - loose weed on the line was a real nuisance all day. The first was a good fish from the slackwater on the far bank, on sweetcorn, ripped off downstream and snagged me in a tree before the hook pulled, Second on pellet, hook pulled again.
Shocking weather all day, got a soaking and good coating of mud but very happy. Great river, great fishing and will be back hoping for more barbel and a few chub and less Indian Balsam.

Nil plenty of weed and twigs!

Good height with hint of rise. Nothing seen.