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fished 16.00 to 19.00. Sunny day, ideal for trotting and a bit of fun so waded out to fish off bottom end of island and fished down the fast gulley under the willows. Sweet corn on 12 hook under an overshot chubber type float, centre-pin to light avon type rod. 5 chub, 2 to 3lb and 6 barbel all 2 to 4lb. Bites ceased when sun went behind trees and light ledger then tried to no avail.
While these fish are not large by Wyebank standards they were great sport in the heavy flow. This year has seen a large increase in numbers of barbel from 2 to 4lb. 10years ago there were only large barbel present and only the last 2 years have these smaller fish started to show so we can be confident that the large barbel commonly caught in this area have another generation coming on. There have been several chub over 6lb caught recently but anglers are disapointingly not returning reports.

No fish but possibly a take. A very enjoyable days fishing on a great beat for fly fishing. Made far more enjoyable for by being greeted, shown around and pointed to the right spots. I'll look forward to fishing here again!

Started off the day slow, ended up with 7 barbel to 9lb on chopped down boilies and groundbait. A word of warning, if you are fishing this beat in the rain take some boots with a deep grip on them as the banks are steep and very slippery. Yours truly taking a dip up to his neck...
Also this beat is a bit tackle hungry, take plenty of feeders/leads. I would advise casting more downstream than across the river as the boulders are a nightmare and the flow just bounces your rigs into them.
A day of ups and downs but one of the nicest places I have ever fished.

3 small barbel.

15.30 to 18.00hrs. Overcast with sunny intervals and river level slowly rising but clear. Waded out to Island and used a heavy ledger to hold bottom solid as rolling ledger unusually produced no bites. Difficult cast 20yds downstream on edge of willows to deeper area but 3 prime barbel, 6 to 9lbish on large halibut pellet (again unusual no bites on luncheon meat) banded to 8 hook on 3ft hooklength. Used all the 2lb test curve to bring fish upstream through flow but all recovered quickly on return.
Saw a long furred jet black mink on far bank with what appeared to be an 18inch grass-snake dead in its mouth, hope its passing through!
Can anyone explain why nearly all barbel I catch are hooked in the fishes right side of lower lip??

Approx 22 fish between 2 rods mostly barbel to 8lb 4ozs.
The bulk were caught in the early part of the day but odd fish caught off and on all day including as the canoes passed. Canoe traffic lighter now and mostly well behaved with only the odd out of control one causing lines to be hastily retrieved.

Arrived just after 7, gentle mist rolling down the river and disappearing as I decided on where to fish. The river was slightly up and provided a strong flow to test my fishing skills - or lack of?

I am normally a fly fisherman, but opted to try my hand at Barbel fishing for a few hours. I decided upon the last peg and used a rolling weight with halibut pellet on a hair rig, not much joy so switched to luncheon meat. In four hours I caught 2 beautiful barbel and 2 large chub, all the fish were about 5LB.

Had a great chat to the owner and a big thank you to him and the WUF. A wonderful half a day, would definitely return to fish again.

Superb stretch of river, fished for 5hrs trotting sweetcorn over a large bed of hemp and caught 12 barbel to 8lb and 11 chub to 4lb along with a lone dace and lost many others.

Other commitments meant I didn't have as much time as I would have liked so only fished from 17.30 to 20.30. Managed 3 barbel from 2 - 6lb and one very hard fighting chub of 4lb 10oz. Infuriatingly I missed at least a dozen unmissable bites!

Fished 06.30 to 09.30. River very low and ultra clear. Early sunny then clouded over. Trotting float, centrepin and avon rod 8lb monoline to 12 hook with sweetcorn on hook and slow feed same into swim at bottom of beat. Shallow wade to river centre then float down clear gulley about 3ft deep with float set at about 5ft.
6 or 8 barbel to around 6lb, 3 chub to around 3lb, inumerable dace some of over 10oz. Had a dace snatched at so lip hooked it and next cast hooked but lost at net wild trout of maybe 3lb possibly due to small hook size to dace? Excellent sport and river stunning in early mist. Great action in fast flow.
Dipper pair are still resident. A mid sized dark salmon right under near bank by "quay".
I earier reported loosing a large barbel when hook snapped at bend, investigation after another lost fish indicates that my foreceps for hook removal are DAMAGING HOOKS, others take heed!
With low water coarse anglers coming to the Wye should consider bringing waders, they open up so many possibilities from just sitting on bank with heavy weed to contend with.