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Difficult day fishing. Bright sun, gin clear water. Despite this, excellent day out.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lovely stretch.

10 Barbel, 6 Chub

A sunny sunday water level low fished cage feeders with a mixture of hook baits from pallet to sweet corn and meat on hair rigs. The barbel all came in the morning with some good chub to finish the day off.

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Hot and sunny conditions, river level good, most fish caught from 6pm onwards. Limited number of swims. Anglers from opposite bank wading across to fish the bank we had paid good money to fish, we agreed this was not an ideal situation, we understand the fishing rights on the opposite bank are held by holiday cottages. However, good sport in a nice setting.
WUF Note: On single bank beats such as How Caple Court there is always a chance that people will be fishing opposite you. If this is of concern, please check the website before booking - there are many double bank beats to choose from.

11 Barbel

2 eels. 1 about 2 1/2lbs, 1 about 3lbs

1 Trout, 6 Barbel, 20 Chub, 2 Other

Water was low, flowing very fast on Swan Island. Fished a lead with pellet. Each fish 4.5lbs in excellent condition.

2 Barbel

A nice bit of water, had a permit for two days. fished downstream of the island on day one had some nice Barbel and Chub. Day two much of the same, Barbel to 8lb and Chub to 5lb also a nice eel about 3lb. Bright sunny conditions, though nice made it slow going but stick with it when sun begins to dip, some truly savage takes. Meat and Pellet.

7 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Fished free line meat in fast water for a couple of hours late afternoon and caught 3 chub, 2lb,3lb and 4lb.
Water low and clear.

3 Chub

A truly beautiful stretch of the wye. The conditions were sadly not ideal with bright sun and very low water levels. Started at the top of the beat but with the river so low the swims were pretty hard to access. Worked way up to The Island but unfortunately the fishing was thoroughly disturbed by the canoeists all capsizing on the same sunken tree mentioned in an earlier post. Every canoe, without exception, capsized and the disturbance every hour made fishing a bit pointless. I'm not blaming the canoeists - that tree needs to be removed! No fish for me but two chub to my fishing partner. I did, however, manage to net a pristine can of Holsten Pils which was a welcome refreshment in the heat. Will return later in the autumn.

2 Chub

River fairly low but maybe a touch of colour. Happy enough to get 4 barbel under the conditions. All between 6lbs and 8lbs, all fighting fit and all to small pellets or boilies with PVA bags.
Enjoyable day on a very nice fishery. Thank you WUF.

4 Barbel