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2 small dace on fly, both returned.

2 Other

Not much fishable water. Be aware, there are lots of canoes in this area as it is an ingress point. Not many fish. Largest chub about 2lb

4 Chub

As previous day on Courtfield the river was too low and the weather too hot, extremely difficult especially with the numbers of canoes and swimmers!! Fished the Saturday and Sunday morning for 1 chub about 3lb. It was good to meet Rudi and break the day chatting about fishing. He was very helpful, a really nice chap!!

1 Chub

A two day visit to Wyebank. Very tough going on both days, the river was very low and clear. Fished the bottom pool both evenings and the Island Pool at dawn on the second morning. The Island Pool produced nothing but the bottom pool produced some fish just as it got dark. Hard work.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lovely way to spend the evening. Booked the beat for an evening ticket and didn't start until 6.30pm. Fished the bottom end of the beat using pellet and feeder tactics with a cbs river monster boilie. Bites were slow to come on until late evening but I finished up with 6 chub to 4lbs and 2 barbel to 8lb 2oz. Great way to end a busy day!

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Not quite the rod bending session one was anticipating! First venture onto this lovely rippled beat and some good looking spots. Alas it was not to be! After snaffling a few early morning chub I finally hit upon my quarry around 9 in the morning. Although small, my barbel was perfectly formed and fought for all it was worth. However as the suns rays came into full effect I could see how shallow the stretch was. The final indignaty was a shoal of ducks diving for my free offerings. A sleep and a cheeky glass of the good stuff made no difference and so I bid farewell. Probably a stretch to avoid until we get a little more of God's own water! I sadly left without making Don's acquaintance as well. Never mind, one shall return!

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

The river was very low this time round, and being a Saturday the canoe traffic throughout the day was very heavy. Both of these things made the fishing difficult, but we managed to find a few fish throughout the day.
Caught early on with around 6 chub coming to the float and coarse pellets, eventually moved to the feeder by mid afternoon after a bitelss hour. Plenty more chub fell to the feeder throughout the day, but a lot were in the 1/2lb to 1 1/2lb category, with a few better fish between 3-4lb. Had to wait until dark started to fall before finding the barbel, clearly spooking off the low water at the moment during daytime. 3 barbel from 3lb - 7lb 4oz.
On another note, we had three smaller chub taken by a seriously big pike hanging around the swim, which may have been causing the chub to spook (very finicky bites). The fish was well into double figures and almost unmovable for the few minutes we had it on each time.
Great beat, as always, but perhaps the conditions and the pressure on it at the moment are causing it to slow down a little of late.

3 Barbel, 17 Chub, 2 Other

What a difference a few weeks makes. From having an awesome day to a major struggle today. Probably the hardest day I've had in a few years on the Wye. Started at 5.30am. We chucked everything at it today. All different baits both legered and trotting but what a struggle to even get bites. Mainly fished the bottom pool. By 2pm we had 2 small barbel and a chub. Suffice to say we had enough by then and decided to call it a day. Rarely give up and could have stayed till the evening but given how hard it had been we decided to right this one off and will be back soon.
The river is very low at the moment and I reckon it needs a good flush through. Wyebank has been fished daily for weeks now. Maybe there is a bit of pressure on the fish to at the moment. Who knows.
But this is an amazing beat and we will be back very soon.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

This was the second of two days on this beat. Don came to see us on both days and after our comments on the footpath he kindly started working on it. Much improved, thank you.
We had learned that the fast water was the most productive area and caught throughout the day but with long periods of inactivity. A kingfisher and 3 buzzards added interest as did the antics of some of the canoeists who generally heeded our advice to keep to the opposite side only to go aground further downstream.
Barbel today ranged in size from about 2 to 7 pounds but all fought hard in the current. Chub were generally around the 5lb mark and all were in mint condition.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Having negotiated the very difficult and dangerous footpath we set up at the bottom of the beat where there was a pool and fast water on the opposite side. Water level here is very low. We had no bites during the morning and the canoeists came steadily. At about midday a large group of canoeists decided to beach themselves on the croys just upstream many of them wading through the water. Presumably this moved the barbel down to us as we caught 3 in quick succession.
There were no more till the evening when a quick flurry resulted in two of over 8lbs (seemed like twins) one for each of us.

5 Barbel