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Tough day 1 Barbel & 10 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

great days fishing and good fish as well...most came out on pellet feeder. nice beat and some great swims...

13 Barbel, 9 Chub

One of the two of us fished in the downstream field about 3 swims from the boundary. Somebody has put a hell of a lot of effort in making swims here and the one I fished had a shored up flat fishing area about ten feet by four feet cut into the bank opposite the wooded hillside. Fished bomb and meat around the swim to feel my way in and caught two chub one third across with no response closer in or right over. Put in 6 bait up feeders filled with mixed pellet and groundbait one third across and this set the swim alight. Finished with 13 chub and seven barbel. Best method was 2 banded 6mm pellets or one pellet and a bright coloured dumbell wafter on a short hair loop to a four foot hooklength of 10 lb drennan double strength. No monsters, best barbel 7 lb best chub 4 lb 12 oz. Brilliant day and many thanks to whoever put in the time and effort to create this swim.

8 Barbel, 13 Chub

good day on this beat. plenty of swims, most roped-up, and the first meadow looking rally good. A nice bit of colour helped the fish feed. mixture of pellet and meat did the trick.

13 Barbel, 16 Chub

Great day fishing on the Wye - 4 anglers caught 22 barbel from 4 pegs, one peg giving up 12 barbel . Barbel ranged from 6 - 9.5 LB with an average around 7.5lb. Conditions were perfect with overcast skies and chocolate brown waters. River pushing through following heavy rain upstream earlier in the weeks - level dropped 2ft throughout the day.

22 Barbel, 7 Chub

Well what a difference a day makes. Lovely chat between the four angling parties in our hotel fishing a variety of WUF stretches. I didn't think much rain fell yesterday at all but it presumably had up in the hills as one eagle eyed chap checking the levels alerted us to a massive spike upstream at Mordiford coming our way. 0.27 at breakfast turned into 0.44 by the time we got to river. Whole trees started coming down river and it rose to 1.5m by the time we left. So much weed and leaves coming through meant frequent de-weeding and short casts but in between, barbel fed in three of our swims. Bites again were slight, double taps instead of the single ones from leaves or slightly longer lifts than it just being moved by the weed. These may have turned into big pulls but striking 'in case' produced well hooked fish. 6 (top end), 4 and 3 barbel (bottom end) with one chub to the other angler so again not a complete day but for 3 of the 4 a great return in challenging conditions. Biggest barbel 8.06. Thanks to Stefan for convincing PJ to stay where he was as he had 3 barbel in the afternoon.
River now at .91 so the guys fishing today from our hotel should have it sock on!

13 Barbel, 1 Chub

23 Barbel, 9 Chub

17 Barbel, 8 Chub

all caught on float fished meat .best fish 5lb

10 Chub

4 Barbel, 8 Chub