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A difficult day on a new stretch for us. River was high, coloured and fast flowing. We found two anglers fishing with two rods each when we arrived, poachers perhaps?
The banks were pretty treacherous due to the rain and not all swims were fish able. I blanked, not a bite all day but my friend had 6 barbel to 10lb 14 oz which was his first double from the Wye.Two more trips to Caradoc booked in the next couple of weeks, hopefully better days to come!

Last day on the Wye, we arrived to the water early and with more confidence than the two previous days blanking efforts. The river was around 2.4 m but was slightly rising until around 4pm. We met Don who was most helpful and was convinced we would catch just down the inside. However after 10 hours we had not had a bite 3 rods, which when people were catching above us and below raised the question what are we doing wrong? We had fed pellet like instructed every ten minutes and hair rigged pellet, the only thing i can think is we were fishing braid which limited how far we could hold bottom, lessons learnt hopefully next year we will meet the river in better condition and have better tactics.

Fished afternoon/evening had 7 barbel to 10lb and 2 eels all on groundbait feeder and pellet

3 barbel to 8lbs and 3 chub to 5lbs 10oz. All fish caught on pellet.

6 barbel to 8lbs 6oz and 7 chub to 5lbs 1oz. All caught on pellet.

An early overnight frost didn't omen too well for this visit to Courtfield but, after a biteless session before lunch, I returned in the afternoon to fish Legg Meadow and managed to net 4 barbel in the afternoon/evening including a brace of 8s. Went home well pleased with this outcome. Thanks again to Don for running such a fantastic fishery and for being so helpful.

River seemingly back to difficult conditions today with 5 barbel and 5 chub being caught. Fish came from various parts of the fishery. One chub, caught in the Woods, was a PB for its captor at 5lb3oz.
Overall, the stretch was beautiful and provided some good (and some challenging) fishing over 4 days. Don was really helpful and definitely put us on to some spots that we might not of fished otherwise. Food at the Royal Spring Inn (just up the road opposite the fishery) is highly recommended for a spot of lunch. However, the biggest thing to note if you are visiting, is to take lots & lots of terminal tackle if you are fishing anywhere other than Legge Meadow. Some areas seemed to claim your end tackle every cast!

Fish were in a bit more of a feeding mood today. A total of 18 barbel and 2 chub were caught. 15 of the fish came from within the Wood and included fish of 10lb4oz and 10lb8oz and also a PB chub of 5lb3oz for the captor.
The other fish came off Legge Meadow and included a PB 10lb10oz barbel for its captor. Yet again groundbait/pellet was the winning combination but to be honest given the previuos days results, we were now concentrating on this method.

Morning was very slow again - same as previous day. However the evening improved somewhat. 9 barbel were caught with the best a 11lb7oz PB for its captor. Don had just turned up to check on our progress and witnessed the fish and added to his reputation of being a lucky charm on the stretch. 7 of the barbel were caught in Legge Meadow, the other 2 were caught in the Boat pool in the downstream half of the beat. Again, groundbait/pellet was the successful bait.

First of 4 days on Courtfield. Loveley stretch with plentry of variation and pegs to fish from. The ownwer, Don, met us shortly after we arrived and gave a really useful introduction to the top half of the fishery pointing out many of the fish holding features etc. really nice guy and his knowledge of the stretch ceratinly paid dividends over the 4 days.
Fishing itself was really hard going with only 1 barbel and 2 chub caught between us. We tried a variety of area & swims during the day but all fish were caught during afternoon/evening and all on groundbait/pellet approach