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Enjoyable day back on the Wye. Weather a little unkind but managed 3 barbel & 1 chub and a suprise pike all on pellet.

Quite a lengthy report but I hope useful. Our day consisted of the good, the unbelievably bad and the very good. First of all, the beat is beautiful, the service from WUF excellent and the owner, Don, is friendly and helpful. We arrived early at 6.00am and enjoyed a few peaceful hours in this lovely setting, joined at about 7.00am by another angler, also a very nice guy, and his young son.
Then at 10.00am the first batch of canoes came down. From then on we never had a moment of peace and quiet. Some canoeists are decent people who understand the river etiquette but sadly a high proportion are loud-mouthed, ill-mannered yobs. They seem to have no appreciation of their surroundings and their idea of enjoyment is to drink lager and yell and swear at each other and anyone on the bank. They are quite intolerable, although I daresay they represent lots of money to the canoe operators who clearly don't care how they behave on the water. We left to get some lunch and when we returned there were 3 women in my swim holding some sort of prize presentation with a group of drunk canoeists. You cannot reason with these people so we left the fishery.
We decided to stay away until evening and returned at about 6.00pm. No canoes, peace and quiet and the barbel feeding well. Using groundbait/pellet feeder with halibut boilies we caught a fine stamp of fish between 7lbs and 9lbs as well as a few chub, so a good ending to the day. Such a pity that the natural beauty and tranquility has to be wrecked by people who don't appreciate it.

A hard day but did manage to hook 1 fish which shot off on a long run across the river & pulled the hook, no further action. On another note I was there with 3 other anglers who I knew so who is W B from Surrey & the man with his son who have submitted a report for the 29th? Was I fishing the right beat?

All 3 rods experienced mixed returns on the day. 1 rod bagged up taking 3 Barbel to 8lb 4oz & 15 Chub around the 4lb mark on feeder with pellet & boilie hookbaits, 1 rod had 1 small Barbel and 4 Chub using a rolling meat approach and the final rod struggled and caught nothing. River had dropped considerably due to the warm weather which made finding the fish more difficult.
All rods encountered heavy canoe traffic throughout the day and although the majority were aware of the presence of anglers there was a minority that were happy to be messing about on the river

I fished the 28th but to answer K T question I think W B was there on the Saturday 28th as was the gent and his young son. Perhaps he put the wrong date down. You seem to be on the right beat.

I arrived late morning after a long drive down and settled into a swim at the bottom end of the meadow just before the woods. It was a quiet afternoon only managing 1 barbel and 1 nice chub in the mid afternoon sun but the better action started from 5.30pm until 9pm when I managed another 6 barbel to 9lbs 10oz and another bonus chub.
I finished with 7 barbel to 9lbs 10oz and 2 chub both over 4lbs all to pellets except one chub which fell to meat as did a very large eel. Thank you to Don as always for his advice and putting me on the fish.
If you haven’t made a visit this is a great stretch of the Wye and I would highly recommend a visit not only for the most excellent fishing but just the beauty of the area. A small piece of heaven on earth my only warning is it won’t only be the barbel who get hooked.

Last day and a bit more cloud cover. I've had an enjoyable day catching 20 Chub over 2lbs with the two biggest at 4lbs 12ozs and 5lbs, plus 3 Barbel to 8lbs. P has fished the waterworks end of the meadow for a 6lb Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 2ozs. A has caught 2 Barbel to 7lbs 14ozs sharing the last swim on the meadow with J who had 3 Barbel to 7lbs 3ozs. Bait and tactics the same. Canoe traffic very heavy today, 99.9% are fine but one or two today were a pain, it's incredible how such well spoken people can be so bad mannered!! All in all we've throughly enjoyed ourselves. Restrictions on our accomodation meant we were fishing at the least productive times of the day but we still all caught Barbel every day we fished. Many thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation and particularly Don who was his usual helpful and accomodating self, a true gent!

A,J and K are fishing Wyebank this morning. P after problems with his car and the excessive heat of yesterday has decided to have a rest but has helped me into a swim in the woods to get a rest from the sun as it's shady all day here. Still very slippery but only fell over once! I had 4 Barbel to 7lbs, one about 2lbs which is nice to see plus 1 Chub. After a quietish morning on Wyebank A,J and K returned to Courtfield where J had a 7lbs 8oz fish and a Chub of 4lbs 5ozs, A 2 Barbel to 7lbs and a 3lb Chub, K failed to score but then he is very old! Bait was once again barrel boilies this time wrapped in Hinders blitz paste and feeder fished with 4mm feed pellet and Hinders Barbel groundbait. Big increase in canoe traffic today.

All fished the meadow again, even hotter than yesterday. J managed another Barbel of 7lbs plus 3 Dace on 8mm pellet from the waterworks end, A sharing the swim managed three Barbel to 7lbs and a Chub of 4lbs 8ozs,A's dad K had a solitary 6lb fish from the middle of the meadow, P a single Barbel of 8lbs plus two 3lb Chub,I had 3 Barbel to 8lbs 14ozs and a single Chub. My first 2 Barbel yesterday were caught on double Elipse pellets, all the other fish so far coming to Essex baits Barrel boilies. Water has fallen about 6ins today.

First of 4 days on Courtfield and Wyebank, river still up but dropping and what a change in the weather with clear blue skies and temperatures in the eighties, good for fishing but maybe not for catching. All fished the meadow on Courtfield as Wyebank still up and running and P opened up with an 8lb Barbel from the middle of the meadow and went on to catch another fish of a similar size plus two Chub. K followed this with a 8lb 12oz fish from the waterworks end and had another two plus two Chub. Champ on the day though was A 15 yr old son J who with A fished the last swim on the meadow for a cracking fish of 9lbs 4ozs plus a smaller sample. Dad fishing alongside could only manage a 6lb fish plus 2 Chub to 4lbs 8ozs. I wieghed in with 3 Barbel between 6-7lbs from the middle of the meadow, banks still very slippery.