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Fished Legg Meadow caught 6 small Barbel upto 1lb & 1 around 5lb along with 6 Chub upto 3lb. River still low not much colour.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

Having had a great day yesterday arrived at Courtfield with high hopes we all fished the meadow I managed a Chubb and a small jack pike. The others had no action. Disappointing return from a stretch that we have had good results from in the past.

1 Chub, 1 Pike

A hot and sunny day so fishing in the lower wooded section seemed sensible. Finding a snag free part of the swim was important but once accomplished a few fish seemed willing to feed. TS moved to the meadow in mid afternoon and found some fish feeding from5 pm onwards.
Swimfeeder with pellets or boilies as meat baits were soon devoured by the hordes of small Eels. Best Barbel of the day weighed 9lb6oz & 9lb3oz.
Very impressed with the swim clearance work in the meadow. Wildlife event of the day was seeing a kingfisher escape the clutches of a sparrowhawk in mid river and still fly off with a tiny fish in its mouth.

15 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished the inside line at the top of Legg Meadow alternating a couple of swims but breaking off from late morning to mid afternoon to avoid canoes and brightest sunshine. Not the easiest session I have had at this great fishery but the 3 barbel landed made it a worthwhile trip.

3 Barbel

First time on Courtfield. River was up and pacey - not easy and lost a lot of tackle. However fish were feeding and really pleased to catch 12 barbel and 5 chub. My mate had 6 barbel and 1 chub up to 9.12. Challenging but great sport.

18 Barbel, 6 Chub

Nice stretch, only 2 out of the 4 pegs had fish holding there so very frustrating for the other 2 anglers.

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

River was flowing quite fast and rose around 6inches during the day. Tactics were hair-rigged pellets and swim-feeder into the crease just off the main flow. A lot of tree debris (very large branches) came down the river during the day as a result of tree cutting activity just upstream of where we were fishing; we were surprised that they were able to just dump the tree debris into the river....
This was our first time on the water and we had a very enjoyable session. The main difficulty was finding the car parking areas which are difficult to locate on a busy road and very limited.
Many thanks, we hope to visit again soon. Steve Thompson

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Started up in the wooded section, I had 6 barbel and 1 chub in morning on feeder and pellet but Steve did not have a bite so we moved down to the meadow in the afternoon where then steve had 5 barbel (including a personal best of 10lb 8oz), 2 chub and an eel. I finished the day with 9 barbel and 4 chub, all fish were good size.

14 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Arrived at 8am to find the river looking good after some rain at the weekend. We selected a comfortable swim for the pair of us and I landed a 9lb barbel on the second cast! We got some great advice from Don, Tony netted a 4.5lb barbel and lost a couple more fish, so we decided to try other swims as the sun had now come out. Early afternoon I had another 9lb barbel and a 4lb and 4.5lb chub. By early evening we were sunburnt but the action was more consistent and I managed another 4 barbel, including another 9lb fish and a number of chub.
A great day on the Wye with good size barbel - 6 fish for 50lb - on a great stretch and I gave Tony a taste of his own medicine following the pasting I received on the first outing of the season!

7 Barbel, 8 Chub

Having read the advanced information we planned to fish the meadow but arrived to find two anglers already on there. We happened to bump into Don on the bank who helped us find two decent swims in the woods.
It was our last day of the trip so we only managed to fish 10-3 before having to make the trip back north. I managed two good barbel, both 8lb+ and a chub of around 4.5lb. My fishing partner managed just one smallish chub.
Much like the day before on another stretch upstream it felt like we hadn't got the tactics quite right. It also felt that it would have switched on more had we been able to stay on until dusk.
We liked the stretch and would definitely fish it again.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub