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Bright sunny day at Sugwas with low water conditions. Chub were on and off throughout the day but the Barbel were not interested all day, even at dusk they refused to bite.

27 Chub

After arriving after midday we decided to take a walk down the whole stretch. Firstly, parking in the orchard and walking up river to look at possible pegs on the No1 stretch. The upper parts of the stretch are somewhat overgrown and would prove difficult to fish without the use of waders. Saying that, the stretch did have some very promising looking runs.
We opted to get back in the van and drive down to the parking in the lane for the lower stretches. This stretch proved to be more to our angling needs. Plenty of pegs with good flow, pools and cover for daylight fishing. We decided to fish the lower stretch and covered most of the pegs available.
A pellet approach was used on both rods for the day. Opting to start cautiously with a 8mm pellet and PVA bag. This approach brought about instant success with two Barbel above the 9lb mark. The bottom pool producing the smaller of the days catches. Light lose feeding of pellet also brought about good results with the chub often being first on the bait.
In summary, a very good day in wonderful surroundings. A word of caution, the cattle in the field did get a little lively at times during the day so not for the faint hearted.

11 Barbel, 9 Chub

Arrived to find river very low, and sluggish only 2 chub caught all day but I think it was the same fish caught twice!!! a very hot day quiet a lot of canoes the majority of which were very considerate and polite the only exception being 2 gobby yobs slapping the water with oars .... they discovered quiet quickly that was a bad idea!!!!! ... not the best days fishing we've had but enjoyable all the same..

2 Chub

Having never fishing here before I was on a steep learning curve from the off...
I headed initially to the upper section of the fishery expecting to make it to the bait pool.
Sadly I found out that this was not accessible... So having seen the drink far swims I made attempts to reach the island.... Note... The silt bank is VERY deep! Thankfully the willow tree rescued me from a sorry and muddy escape! Phew!
I took to driving round to the lower parking and set about fishing the deeper section just up from the fast water. It looked promising with fish moving everywhere. But after 2 hrs and many methods nothing had taken up my offering.
I took a jaunt down as far as I could go along the fast water where I found a slack eddy after a fallen willow. Scattered some hemp and say back to rig up a Trefor west style loaded hook with rough meat to bump along the crease...... Success! 2nd cast in and a pristine 5lb chub stole away!.... Great news... I didn't blank!!! But it would seem that the commotion scattered any hope of finding another fish, so I moved back up to the cow field.
I lighteded up on the tackle and cut down bait size and continued to try on the middle sections. Only 1 baby barbel fell for this and after that nothing. That's not to say the fish weren't somewhere, the 2nd rod on this stretch had better results.
It was and mixed up day with disappointments, fear, anticipation and successes. The river was very low and this cut down on opportunity but all in all and enjoyable day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived early and was fishing for first light. Fished the fast water by the cattle drink and caught two Barbel within the first hour but then bites dried up. By mid morning I decided to move down stream to the deeper water but just before I made the move I had an Eel of about 3 pound. The deeper water was far more productive with another 6 Barbel and 7 Chub caught. This is a great beat with plenty of swims to go at but as the other rod on the day has stated the wood on the upper section is inaccessible and a little bit of work clearing some swims would make this one of the best WUF beats. Many thanks to the WUF and the owners of the Sugwas beat for another great days fishing.

8 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

The river was quite low and clear. We were new to this beat so probably did not take best advantage of the conditions. We fished the upper stretch first, wading out to the pebble bar and then beyond into mid-stream (the water was not much more than knee high). This produced one very well-conditioned 3lb chub to me on trotted meat. Wading back through the bankside mud proved treacherous! We then moved to the lower part of the beat, carefully avoiding the bull with his harem of ladies. First cast for both of us produced a small barbel. I then experienced a number of unproductive sharp tugs and eventually a 2lb eel (miraculously lightly hooked in the V of the jaw), whilst my fishing partner got a few chub up to 4.5 lb. After 3 pm it went dead and the swims produced only a further 5lb chub to me at 6 pm. This is a pleasant fishery that we would fish again, but preferably with a bit more water. Be prepared for quite a hike along the riverbank if you want to explore the entire beat.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Travelled back home today so fished the afternoon only. Managed 2 barbel from the top field then it went very quiet so moved below the woods. This is the lowest I've seen the river when fishing Sugwas so it was very interesting to be able to see the bottom in pegs I've caught from in the past.
We catapulted out some pellets in a known swim and saw 1 barbel and some chub almost immediately, however after catching 1 chub it went quiet. We fished various swims for the afternoon then when packing up at 5pm I spotted a barbel again - after putting out some more pellets we saw 6 barbel in the swim with fish flashing constantly. We quickly set up again and gave it 30mins but couldn't coax one into taking the bait.
A hard but enjoyable day and I can confidently say that if we had been fishing until dark then we would have had a few barbel. I think the low water level put the fish off feeding this afternoon.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

D Fs first ever fishing trip started slow with the fish not showing any interest in any of the normal swims. I started to fear that D F s first ever trip was going to end with a blank, however around four, the fish turned on for a brief feed and D managed to catch his first ever barbel and chub. The best barbel was around 8 lb so a good fish for first outing. Wild life was great and the day very enjoyable, regardless of the less than perfect fishing conditions. I'm back next week to have a go myself rather than play gillie for the day. Crossed fingers.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Quite a hard day, only one decent barbel of 6lb

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fishing very slow.

3 Chub