Feedback & Reports

19.7 degree water temperature and a cool start were promising despite the clear skies. Made the trek down to the lucky stones and started fishing up into the fast water whilst fishing the float line with hemp and meat. Just three chub on bomb and bag in the first two hours so swapped to the float. 16 chub and a harem scarem 9lb foul hooked Barbel followed. Swapped back to the bomb and added two chub and an 8.11 barbel for a cracking day's fishing.

2 Barbel, 22 Chub

Feeder with pellet hookbait

4 Chub

1 Chub

River ver low , barbel caught on sausage flavour pellet, chub all
On luncheon meat

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Lovely few hours of catching decent chub on the pellet wag, barbel caught late on from the fast water both around the 5lb mark.

2 Barbel, 30 Chub

A difficult day. The river conditions were as bad as I can remember so we weren't brimming with confidence when we set out and we were proved correct. Hardly a movement on any of the rods through the whole session.
Despite the state of the river and despite the W&U request, abstraction is ongoing at an alarming rate judging by what we've seen this week up and down the Wye. Clearly economic factors outweigh environmental factors in this case, understandable probably if you're a farmer but not at all helpful for the river system as a whole.
The other was an eel around 2.1/2lb, safely unhooked and returned.

1 Other

7 Chub

2 Chub

Did not fish, due to planned inclement weather.

Fished lucky stone in the woods section.
The heaven’s opened and conditions to and from the stone quite treacherous.
Biblical rain horizontal in nature saw barbel jumping but not teeding.
Again, all methods, tactics and baits caught but the water temperature was like a hot bath.
One eel was the other.
Now reached the age where cardiac hill and the Tibetan climb are too much!

5 Chub, 1 Other