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2 Barbel, 2 Chub

First time on this beat this season , glad to be back , as you'd expect the river was extremely low after this dry summer we're having , so was expecting a tough day .
Was very happy to catch what I did , lost a couple to ! Fished from 3pm to 9:30pm , great day , lots of sunshine , wildlife and a few fish in the net .

4 Barbel

1st time ever on the Wye, tried freelining meat to explore all the river. Not a lot of flow and lost as many I caught, guessing barbless hooks didn't hold when striking through the meat. Still not a bad day all things considered.
The other was an eel

1 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

1st fishing trip in nearly 8 years! Only 3 fish but nice to be back on the river. Started at 3pm, 1st cast saw a chub on the hook before I had time to place the rod in the rest! Foch of 3.5/4lb. Barbel came at 4.45 and 7pm. Didn't fish the peg I wanted as another angler in the opposite side was wading half way out in the shallows and fishing Caple Court side..... And pulled out 28 fish! 9 of which were caught whilst I was there!
Lovely session and looking forward to my return visit in a couple of weeks, hopefully I'll get the swim I want.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water low and clear. We did an interesting side by side comparison of pva bags and pellet feeder- the bags caught twice the number of fish in the low water.
One lovely fish stalked from under the feet pool and the bottom of the beat. Lovely scenery and day out as always.

9 Barbel, 2 Other

Thank you WUF for a wonderful days fishing. Tried fishing the upper section in waders and trotting sweet corn, but besides catching a couple of resident chub, no barbel could be seen. Went down stream and saw a large shoal flashing in fast shallow water. To only get to them by wading. We caught 1 barbel of approx 7lb and then lots of 4-5 chub which was nice but not our target quarry. It was a beautiful day and we had some adventures. Thank you.

1 Barbel, 16 Chub

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

Beautiful spot. 3 Barbel caught in the middle of the day on pellet using PVA bags too. Moved around a few swims until located some fish. Faster water swims are better.

3 Barbel

The river was very low so fishing was restricted to the faster section only.
Used various forms of feeder with pellet. Corn, meat etc not successful at all.

Stayed at the Belvedere B+B, very clean, very friendly owners and ideally positioned for my needs. Will definitely return next year

13 Barbel, 10 Chub

The river had dropped back several inches since our visit 2 days before but the catch was similar with our group catching 10 Barbel and 2 Chub, this time the tactics were a mixture of feeder and float.

Thanks to Terry the bailiff who was very helpful.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub