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Hard work today but great venue.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Barbel, 16 Chub, 1 Other

We came in search of the Wye Barbel but the conditions were warm and the river fairly low. Regardless, we had that great faith that all anglers have, which keeps you coming back for more ! Unfortunately we didn't get the catch we wanted, but what a lovely place in the height of summer to spend your time with family and friends. Lots went into the planning; with plenty of laying down bait & tactics/kit in many swims (hemp, garlic hemp, pellet, halibut mix, garlic hemp, spicy krill, paprika luncheon meat and luncheon meat; all in different mixes). Used cage, longer and shorter hook lengths, PVA bags, . The easiest pegs to get too are the ones nearer to the farm but go all the way round past the Weir (roughly about 6-8 good pegs for fishing). It is a great venue, we just weren't good enough on the day! We'll be back !

1 Barbel, 2 Other

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fished the car park end in the morning, plumbed the depth to find it only about 7 inches deep, Lots of fish swimming past and stirring up the silt obviously munching on my hemp and corn free offerings, managed 2 bites but hook did not set, ventured down the deeper end in the afternoon, again, lot's of fish showing but not able to catch anything, no fish caught all day but I was on the edge of my seat all day anticipating catching one of the giant carp swimming around. I would go back but would start off fishing at the deeper end near the oak tree, the fish seemed to like the corn and hemp so would recommend these baits as a starter. Stayed at the three horse shoes 3 miles up the road.. great pub and nice rooms at a fair price.

"Other" fish caught: eel

1 Other

Fished two sessions, morning and evening in the Woods section. Used 12mm pellets with a long hair to try and avoid the chub. I also ignored the chub pulls, unless they effectively hooked themselves. 4 barbel in the morning and 4 in the evening, all relatively spaced out. I could have caught many more chub, if I had been striking at every pull. Largest barbel a very nice fish at 9lb 3oz. Others all in the 5 - 7 lb range. River seemed to be at about normal summer levels, but was very coloured.

8 Barbel, 30 Chub

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

A very hot, sticky and uncomfortable day for fishing, standing in a hot sun all day, without any sign of a breeze. Following the recent floods, the rivers now beginning to fine down to noted summer lower levels, with numerous plume's of streamer weeds now showing. Despite me having doubts on whether the fish would feed, quite surprisingly in part they were there.

Fished 2 x 8mm hair-rigged halibut pellets behind a pellet / hemp / groundbait 50g feeder from 5:00am to 11:30am (6.5hrs), with fish taking from the start, with a lull in feeding through the middle, and then a pickup in action towards the end. On two occasions, a chub took my bait as it hit bottom, and before I got to put the rod on the rest. No photographs or fish weights were taken in that heat. The fish were netted, unhooked, rested in the net, and released promptly each time.

River level at the Ross-on-Wye gauge (Friday 4:00am) - 0.53m; weather - sunny all day, 24C, no breeze at all. Netted 1Nr barbel circa 6.5lb (lost 2Nr others), 18nr chub (lost 3Nr others). NB: A few salmon showing up and down the river.

Tight lines everybody.

1 Barbel, 18 Chub

Hot and sunny clear day. Fished the wooded section as had been successful there before. Caught a number of chub and could have had a lot more but decided to move to try to find the barbel. This was surprisingly difficult. Eventually picked off two in the top field. My colleague sadly did not manage to get a barbel but at least he had a chub or two and got to see mine!

2 Barbel, 10 Chub