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Chub all around a couple of pound and barbel to 6lb.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

A very good first day on the Wye. Most fish caught early when overcast. Heavy open end feeder, time bomb method, pellet hook bait.

3 Barbel, 10 Chub

Arrived at 9am, cold and foggy start to the morning. The fog soon burnt off when the sun came out. Turned into a glorious spring day. Started fishing the float with maggots with no luck, where are all the dace, roach and small chub? There doesn't seem to be any small fish on this beat. After 2 hours time to move swims. Fished the maggot feeder and caught some big chub, a couple of brownies and found a stray barbel. Thank you WUF for the privilege of allowing me to fish a beautiful stretch of the Wye on my own on the last day of the season.

2 Trout, 1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Arrived midday following an over night frost. Fished maggot feeder in first swim of first meadow without a bite for over 3 hours. Moved about 4pm, fed two pints of maggots via a bait dropper then success! 3 barbel to 7lbs plus 2 brownies.

2 Trout, 3 Barbel

I wanted to fit in a trip to the Wye before the cold weather set in but apart from the pleasure of being on the river, there isn't much to report. The water looked good and I fished six hours with various baits but the fish refused to respond. A frost the previous night seems to have killed things off and I blanked. Happy Christmas to all at WUF and thanks for some excellent fishing during 2013.

The river was high but very clear. We caught one chub on spam using a ground bait feeder and halibut pellets. We didn't get any other bites.

1 Chub

Not a fishy day at all, not so much as a nibble all day. Nice place to be though.

The river was high and pushing threw with lots of colour, only two fishable spots, we did manage to find some feeding barbel. Good result for a challenging day.

River up and flowing fast, also quite coloured. Never fished here before, access was good with plenty of places to fish. Started middle of first field and caught barbel throughout the day on Robin Red pellets over halibut pellets in the feeder. Fish caught were 6lbs, 2 at 7lbs+, 8lb 4oz and the best of 10lb 4ozs. A good days fishing was had by the both of us.

5 Barbel

We arrived at the venue to find 11' of flood water and the river just within its banks. The river did drop 3' during the day but was still unfishable in most areas. However, both anglers managed to find suitable spots but roving was clearly out of the question. We managed to catch a barbel each which we considered a decent result in these adverse conditions. The usual pellet and feeder being the successful method.

2 Barbel