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Caught 3 barbel, all on pellets, with the river in lovely condition.
The Foundation's service was excellent, thank you.

Arrived to find the river up and coloured and pushing through fast. We managed 15 barbel between the 3 of us, most fish caught on robin red pellet. Biggest around 8.5lbs. A lovley peacefull section of river to fish.

My first time at How Caple Court, and it is another great location. After reading the river reports overnight I wasn't confident of even fishing, so it was great to find most of the beat was fishable. Chose a peg about a third of the way up from the bottom end - in hindsight I don't think the two of us sharing the same peg was the best idea, but c'est la vie. Got in to fish straight away, and had landed 10 barbel to just over 9lb within the first 2.5 hours - and then nothing for the rest of the day!

Had to leave early (some football match - which we lost again!), so not sure if the evening would have turned the fish on again. I did briefly catch a glimpse of something large on the surface around lunchtime, so it may be they were spooked by a pike - one of the barbel I landed had a large (healed) bite mark across his back.

Dad switched to trotting in the afternoon and landed some very nice chublets, dace and roach. All the barbel were caught on Mistral Baits 14ml elipse pellets (2 glued to a hair rig), with 3&4ml mixed pellets in a block-end feeder. 15lb mainline (red mist) and 12lb Guru hooklenghts to a size 10 hook. Daiwa Infinity 1.75lb test curve specialist barbel rod.

Hope to fish the beat again soon.

Windy, grey day, river up about 7 foot and not leaving many places to fish as the banks are tree lined and the trees were way out into the river. I found a couple of places to fish but was casting blind never having been here before.
Second swim produced two fish to 9.13, one further lost to a snag then another bite and it went dead. All caught on garlic spam. Rain came at 5pm and it was time to go home, river having dropped about 6 inches.
Can't wait to get back here in better conditions.

Did not start fishing until 1700, showers and windy but settled into a swim, river coloured but level remained constant.
Fished the near margins, small pellet with a few thrown in as freebies - caught 4 barbel in 3 hours, three great condition with the biggest double figures, one looking a little jaded after spawning.
Overall a great 3 hours - Thanks

The water was very high and made the fishing rather difficult. The the water was coming through at a tremendous pace. I did however manage to catch a barbel of around 5lb and a chub of around 4lb on Halibet pellet. As the water was continuing to rise and fishing conditions were not good as it rained most of the day and the banks were slippery I reluctantly decided to come home two days early.
The Wye River has wonderful potential for barbel and chub my main target but the contitions were far from perfect. That's fishing. I did find other anglers and the fishing tackle shop in the area very friendly and helpful and managed to gather a lot of information for next time.

7 barbel to 8lb all caught after 6pm. Some swims very snaggy. No problems with fishermen from opposite bank which was a nice change. Thank you WUF.

13 barbel and 2 chub. Floody conditions at 4 foot up meant moving around, even the big pool had pace. Plenty of snags though found fishing 'blind'. A really special visual place, with total quiet much of the time, provided no-one on the opposite bank. A result.

Lovely looking spot although the river was up approx 12 feet when I first arrived on Saturday, in fact my normal dog walking routes were under water around Ross. This meant only a limited number of swims were fishable,I found an area of slack water and fished the crease for seven barbel to about 7lb and two lost. Will try again in September, this beat was new to me and looks worth exploring.

River coloured and rising all day. 8 barbel and 10 chub all on pellet.