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Caught 2 barbel, one was 9lb 7oz caught around 10:30am and the other 7lb 8oz caught at dusk. I also lost 2 at the end of the day. I'll be using more abrasive resistant 15lb mainline the next time I visit! Fish caught using pellet and boilies.

2 Barbel

Tried this beat for the first time - good parking and easy walk to the river. Weather and river conditions looked good but fishing hard and no action until close to dark when I had two barbel and my friend had a chub. That's fishing for you, but we both enjoyed this beat and would try it again.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 x 9lb barbel to luncheon meat. 1 x minnow to maggot - stopped using maggot!

1 Barbel, 1 Other

Only one chub at 2lbs. Unusually for a Sunday there were no canoes at all and only one angler on the opposite bank.

1 Chub

Fishing slow to start but picked up later, river low and clear, weather sunny. As for comments previously regarding the opposite bank, we saw very few anglers, so this did not cause us any problems (surprising as it was a Sunday!).

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Decided to try a maggot approach via feeder and float instead of the usual pellet feeder. Fished all of the swims in this short beat and had fish in short feeding spells throughout the day. Two new species on the Wye for me after catching a decent Grayling and also a Gudgeon !!! Also had 4 small trout parr and a dozen or so Dace. Had 9 typical Wye Chub to 4.04 and a small Barbel. River dropping off with a little colour and some drifting weed in the morning

4 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 9 Chub, 15 Other

First time to explore this beat. Access to certain areas is well documented in several other reports so suffice to say, the wood is not for the faint hearted. With the coloured river combining with the overcast morning, conditions looked promising but the day turned out to be challenging from both a physical and fish point of view.
Little interest shown in feeder / pellet, but a switch to free-lined meat paid immediate dividends with some very nice Chub on consecutive casts.
As a colder breeze turned up in the afternoon, the Barbel remained elusive but perseverance ultimately paid off with a magnificent personal-best Chub of 5lb 4oz. Another memorable day on a wonderful river, with Kingfishers and Wagtails replaced by numerous Bats as I left.

4 Chub

No barbel on the bank! Blankety blank.

X1 barbel and x3 chub caught here. Disappointed about access to river bank - above orchard only one possible swim. Woods dangerous to access and no fishing available here!

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

X1 barbel caught although x3 lost!

1 Barbel