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Another tough day. Started sunny but soon deterioratef with constant heavy rain. Very disappointed to find that the concrete path by the generator is totally overgrown from where it bends round to the right. This has made it a very short path and needs to be cut back. We had one barbel each and decided to pack up early as we were worried about getting the car back up the muddy hill. This proved well founded as we soon got stuck at the bottom of the hill. Fortunately Debbie, the farmer's wife very kindly used her 4x4 truck to tow us out - a big thank you to Debbie for getting us out of a pickle in terrible conditions. Beware driving down to the river when wet unless in a 4x4.

2 Barbel

Only a few hours in the moring while the sun shone, just the 1 chub for my troubles

A tough day with low clear water conditions. A couple of nice Chub from the Boathouse swim, 5lb & 4lb+ just before lunchtime on luncheon meat. A nice Barbel late afternoon from the Beach swim on pellet. A super place to spend the day, I shall be back again year.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

A good day with plenty of barbel most caught on pellets and sweet corn, weather was cooler with a few showers and cloudy most of the day .Fished several places on the beat and caught fish in most of the swims, thank you.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

A few things notched off the bucket list today, fishing the Wye, catching a Barbel and catching a good sized Chubb. Fantastic epic venue.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished early morning through to late afternoon for 1 Eel and 1 lost Barbel that cut off on mid river snag. Beat looked great but just wasn't our day as even trotting wouldn't throw up a fish. Overnight rain had meant track down to river would be tricky unless in 4x4 and were advised by farmer to park in farmyard and walk down to river, glad we did as further rain during day would have meant a struggle to get back up.
At lunchtime couple of 'locals' joined us who claimed farmer allowed them to fish if beat not fully booked, they were polite and asked if we minded but shame they dropped onto the croy from which I had been trotting when talking to them and had fed earlier in the hope of a Barbel, especially as they claimed only after pike and seemed to be fishing for the Barbel!
Did spot a couple of otters patrolling the far bank but not sure we can blame them for what was a disappointing day for us.

1 Other

The river was as low as we had ever seen and, sadly, our two favourite swims had received severe pruning back of the trees bordering the swims removing refuge places for the fish. We tried three different swims but not a touch all day. Two barbel and a chub in the last hour. A difficult day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Low clouds and some long awaited rain coincided with our visit to the Creel and we arrived with some hope on this lovely venue.Fishing was steady all day and much to our delight we bagged a few hard fighting Barbel a couple of which were just over 9lb...Packing up at dusk we also had the pleasure to meet the owner of the beat who is a really nice accommodating fellow..Needless to say but we thanked him profoundly on behalf of all WUF anglers for allowing us to fish this fantastic beat and was a pleasing end to a great day..!!

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Arrived just after the morning rain had stopped to find the river a bit low but with plenty of flow, as usual here. I started with a bite after five minutes and hooked but lost a small barbel and thought I was going to have a typical Wyebank day with several small fish and the odd larger one. However, there was no more action until late afternoon, when I hooked and lost three chub in the weeds. The day was not going well, but I landed the next chub, a lovely fish weighing a whisker under 5lbs. As evening drew on I at last had a barbel, of about 5lbs, followed by another good chub, a bit smaller than the first. Meat was the preferred bait today.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub