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Fished the Bottom Pool, fishmeal groundbait feeder and double 8mm elips hair rigged. Caught steadily through the day to take 13 barbel and 8 chub.
Very enjoyable day. Had a great chat with Don too!

13 Barbel

Lovely stretch of the Wye (isnt all of it though!) and the fishing is not bad either. Started on the usual feeder tactics to locate and fish and found a few so set up the trotting rod and caught some by trotting down the long run.
There is a huge amount of canoe traffic here as there is a pub/picnic stop just where you park up so the flotilla of boats after lunch can be quite annoying. Having said that all of the canoes were respectful of me fishing (the ones that could steer anyway) and it didn't really effect the fishing.
All in all a great day.

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished hard all day for 4 barbel and 3 chub. Don't think I had a lot of fish in the swim, felt I did ok for the day. This swim could be fantastic on the right day, thanks again Don.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

River flow seemed to increase dramatically after 10am .Lots of canoes (60+) but all politely paddled. Fish also politely declined my invitation.

Bites hard to come by today.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Beautiful and enjoyable morning on the river however my skills was not enought to temp the trout and salmon to take.

1 Chub

Raining quite heavily on arrival but stopped shortly afterwards. I decided to walk the length of the beat for a "recce". With some knowledge of the beat I chose to fish the downstream end, past the shallow slack water into the deeper faster flow. This proved to be a good choice as I caught five barbel, 1 just over 10 lbs, 1 - 9 lbs, 2 - 8 lbs and 1 about 4 lbs, 5 chub to 5 lbs and 2 eels. What a day! Thank you Don for our interesting chat and a well managed beat. Another wonderful day on the Wye. Thank you W.U.F.

The river was exceptionally low with clear views of the bottom through less than a foot of water well out into the middle run. The sun shone strongly all day it was possible to watch eels scouring the river bed for debris.
The only fishing option was to target the stronger flow between the cribs. Trotting down with meat through the fast water produced a good number of knocks and some good chub were taken, two over six pounds. It also found the eels!
The original target fish, barbel, was not to be found however despite fishing the bottom pitch in every recommended way. Boilies, meat, corn, pellets and the rest all produced no takes, not even from chub.
A delightful day despite the lack of barbel. Thanks Don for the advice.
Five chub. Best 6 pounds. Eels.

5 Chub

No salmon seen but one solid pull in The Wharf pool. 1 small grilse about 2lbs. Will be back. Thanks to Don.

1 Trout

One small fresh run grilse early afternoon on Devon blue and silver from Wyebank pool behind the crib. Fish seen there Monday as well as along bottom end Legg Meadow. I suspect a small run came up on the 4" lift of water we had late Sunday which dropped back Monday.

1 Salmon