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4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Our first time on the river, never did barbel fishing in the UK before. It was amazing.

The river was low and clear, the weather was really warm. The parking is really far from the bank (I would not leave any high value in the car) and it is next to the dual carriege way. Spots are tight (branches, rocks etc.) - as people said it needs clearing. Loads of weed in the water and massive rocks (we lost plenty leads because of this).
We started fisihing at 5:30 at the top and we caught our first barbel (9lb) at 6 o clock then another one (5lb) at 6:10. Nothing so far then until 12 o clock when we caught 3 barbels, one after each other. Our last one was at 19:00 which closely pinched my rod.

In total the day was amazing with 8 stunning fish (barbels) and I would reccommend this stretch on the other hand I could not imagine there will be that much canoist. Which is not a problem, but they were loud and annoying because they not really bothered if they took your line or played in the water next to your bait.. which was not really fair.

8 Barbel

Another really hot day , river very low , only fished dusk and dawn here , didn't bother trying in the middle of the day , it's been hard on the Wye this week , we lost 2 fish and we all blanked , fish seem to be biting but not taking the bait , frustrating !

Great vehicle access, it is suited better for trout and salmon with shallow runs and deep pools holding salmon which pushed out the coarse fish. One swim was excellent which produced all the fish luckily for me. And no one else in the party caught fish.

6 Barbel, 12 Chub

River low clear weather hot bright barbel on shallows loose fed and feeders to catch fish good stretch plenty of variety in swims. Great wildlife: otter kingfisher, good day

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

Got there 1pm fed elipse pellet off bridge to see if anything was moving as river looked like weak tea, without the milk ...soon got interest of several Barbel , set up stalking rod and waded in the river under the foot bridge , 1 swan shot paternoster banded 12mm pellet was instantly taken by a lethargic Barbel of around 7lbs on landing noticed 10 or so lice on the fish ! water very warm too. back to car set up trotting rod and avon topped ledger rod and chose swim before large tree over bridge ..fed mashed corn and 6mm pellet steady , again waded out 5m to get better control over trotting line , small chub from the off , up to 2lbs , several beautiful wild trout took a liking to single grain of Green Giant corn . Good fun for a couple of hours , came out and gave the straight lead ago with hair rigged corn , this saw the first Barbel only a small one around a 1.1/2 lbs , but this one fought well. Had to try the float again now ...laid on and inched it through for 3 more Barbel of similar size ..nothing better than that.
Back to car for a drink and off down to fast water road side , fed pellet, and some corn , to no result bait all coming back draped in the slimy green weed ? Charles ( the owner came down) and I had a good natter , as I sat on my box in the shallows and in the shade ledgering big chunks of meat at the tail of the rapids ....nothing ? walked further out added a 10lb fluoro direct to braid ,pinched 3 AA on 300mm from size 4 hook ,threaded on a huge chunk of spam and cast well down fast water and let it roll back across , first bite ripped rod round to no avail so fed some broken meat chunks and be 7.30pm had landed , 2 respectable old warriors (Chub) . great day again ..one little incident with our friends the Canoe brigade , one chap was trailing a mini plastic eel behind his canoe , hence to say even when I dipped my rod under the water he snagged my line , his line however was not match for my 12lbs braid , 40 plus canoes pasted me that day and I noticed at least 80% were not wearing any floatation devices at all !!!!!!!

3 Trout, 5 Barbel, 15 Chub

River low and clear, plenty of action using straight bomb and meat.

23 Chub

River was looking good but unfortunately the barbel didnt want to play, just two eels banked but a beautiful place to spend the day.

2 Other

Good day fish came more to veining tome

11 Barbel, 4 Chub

River very low and clear. Plenty of very small barbel caught using standard feeder methods and halibut pellets or boilies. Canoeists an absolute nightmare, a small but considerable number could not control the canoes they had hired and took out my lines on more than one occasion. Rude and abusive idiots that very nearly ruined the day. The hire companies are to blame mainly as that let anyone get on the river with no knowledge or skill whatsoever.
In addition I had to ask several different groups of people to leave the fishery after they had moored up close to where my father and I were fishing. Some were utterly ignorant and apologetic but left, others were rude, abusive and ignorant but still left after some 'encouragement' and language suitable for the situation. This was the first of two bookings. I did not fish the second booked date.

7 Barbel