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13 barbel caught to 10lb 2oz and 5 chub to 5lb 7oz using feeder/pellet tactics.

13 Barbel, 5 Chub

Another hot day. River low with not much flow. Barbel of 7lbs plus a decent chub and 3 small eels. A family of five mink entered the swim from the undergrowth scattering the ducks and then bold as brass trotted behind me in a long line until disappearing into some bankside vegetation. Not many swims available on this beat. Lots of anglers on opposite bank - this must be a day ticket stretch — they seemed to do better!

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

All fish caught on feeder using pellet on the far bank after the canoe traffic had died down. Nothing near side.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Nice day out, with the brilliant scenery. Good meal at The Moon afterwards. Nice healthy, good sized Chub!

5 Chub

Parking in the church car park is convenient, however the walk down the track to the river is overgrown & tricky underfoot. The bank from the track up to Foy Bridge is completely overgrown making access to the wwater difficult. Thanks to the sheep maintaining the bank downstream access is better and I would agree with other anglers that if there were 4 rods you would find space limited. Canoeists were a problem later in the day but this is common at this time of year. All fish caught on pellets using the feeder method.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

All Barbel caught on halibut pellet/feeder tactics.Chub caught on either feeder or trotted pellet. Thanks to the WUF.

14 Barbel, 20 Chub

Yet another beautiful stretch of the Wye. Access is OK although would not suit the physically less able. Weather was spot on, overcast. Fished the second swim up from the bottom of the beat. Three cracking barbel to 9lb and a 4lb chub in a short evening session, all fell to classic feeder and halibut pellet tactics. Oddly the smallest barbel put up the strongest fight.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

7 barbel to 9lbs and 4 chub to 4lbs between the two of us. The fishing was quite slow with brief periods of action and long periods of catching nothing. However, there is always something to watch on this lovely beat - and buzzards and kingfishers brightened the day. Canoeists were friendly and well behaved - and clearly enjoyed their day as much as we did ours.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

11 decent barbel to about 8lb and a dozen chub to 4lb 9oz on pellet and boilie fished on simple running lead rigs. As usual a great day on Courtfield. Back in a couple of weeks.

11 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

We actually fished two days. The 8th. July we fished a stretch just below the Fairview Guest House, where we stayed in great comfort, with the very knowledgeable and great river angler Dave Harrell, who was our guide for the day. On this day it started off very well then we had a tremendous thunderstorm and torrential rain which definitely affected the fishing quite badly. despite this we caught two barbel and 16 chub.
The next day we fished the Lower Carrots and Luggs Mouth stretch,on our own but with a lot of advice and accumulated knowledge from Dave Harrell. We had 6 barbel up to about 8/9 lbs. and 15 chub up to 5lbs. plus, all good fish. All fish were taken trotting down using Dave's special floats and rig suggestions. It was lovely having this whole stretch entirely to ourselves. A most enjoyable trip!

6 Trout, 8 Barbel, 31 Chub