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Looked perfect but only 1 barbel and 1 chub at around 7pm. Both caught on Hallibuts, the barbel was 9lb 11oz good fish.

2 Barbel and 1 Roach on pellet.

RE’s quest for barbel continued……
A beautiful day dawned, blue cloudless sky, light breeze.
Arrived at 8.15am, walked the beat till 9.00am. Beautiful stretch of river but disappointed with the lack of access points along the bank, three in total. Decided to fish the Croy (CH) at the top of the beat and 200m downstream (RE).
Superb start to the day - CH – 3lb Chubb, RE – 4lb 8oz Barbel (Breaking his duck) followed closely by CH’s ‘Biggest Catch of the day’ – 5lb 12oz Barbel all caught on pellet within the first hour.
Disappointingly no further catches to report, but neither of us could complain, just felt privileged to be in this wonderful part of the country enjoying the sunshine and spectacular scenery and not forgetting the company of some magical wildlife, including swans, buzzards, Canada geese, cormorants, mallards, kingfishers, long tail tits and dragonflies to name but a few.
Leaving at 19.00 with a full moon lighting the way, a perfect ending to the day.
As Andy Williams concluded, ’Moon River and Me’.

Beautiful sunny day. Caught 2 barbel (biggest 7lb), 2 eels and a chub. Water was very coloured after a lot of rain.

We arrived at the beat to a very fast and flooded river (over 3' up according to Don). Struggled to find any fishable swims but after some sound advice from Don, we managed 3 chub to 4lb 8oz and 1 barbel to 4lb 8oz. A hard day but good sport and lovely surroundings yet again. All fish were taken on groundbait feeder and boilie. Looking forward to our next visit! Thanks again to Don and the WUF.

Started day off at top of the beat with little success. As it was bright and sunny I was not very confident. I also found it very snaggy. All I had to show for my efforts was one chub. I decided to settle into a swim near the dead tree and wait for the sun to go behind the tree line.
No sooner had this happened the whole situation changed and I ended up with eight barbel to over 10lb.

We booked the whole weekend and following the heavy floods we were praying all week the river would drop in time for our annual Whiskers in the Wye trip. Tom and I were very lucky to find the river in perfect condition, good colour and dropping.
A slow start was had that first morning and a couple of chub were our reward for our long journey and early start. We stuck it out all morning in the first swim with no more results. A move was in call for and by mid afternoon the fish started feeding and didn't stop feeding. By the end of the weekend we had 38 fish between the 2 of us, mainly barbel and a good number of chub. We also tried for some pike but none were encountered. The barbel ranged from 5lb to 10.5lb with 3 doubles banked in total, we even managed to double hook up twice! All in all our best days fishing ever, a wonderful beat, wonderful wildlife set in wonderful countryside. Thanks WUF for enabling this opportunity. Looking forward next year!

We managed to get the car down to the lower car park which saved a walk! We started fishing the first two swims by the pillars but struggled to get any bites. We also fished opposite the islands were the flow is not so much of a boil but again no bites. We tried the pellet, meat and sweetcorn in the end we went back to the pillars when the land owner came along and told us the swims were right down the other end of the venue!!!! This was about 4.30 so we decided to fish the last hour down the bottom and ended up with a barbel of around 8lb, next time we will know!!! But yet again a stunning location we have had an excellent couple of days we were blessed with the weather and cant wait till next time. Many thanks to the Wye and Usk Foundation.
One thing I would like to say is for anglers to be extremely careful with the banks, I did slip! I just got to the top of the bank and my feet went away from me a slid all the way to the bottom luckily there was a ledge where I stopped just before the waters edge !!!! Wouldn't have wanted to go in, very scary.

3lb chub caught on ledgered halibut pellet but no show for the barbel. Hooked a large fish but it became a story of the one that got away! Access to the river was easy and levels were up a couple of feet. We moved several times to try to locate the barbel but to no avail.

Hard Hard Hard - water well up and as such left hand bank pretty much unfishable and river roaring through. Fished other side 50 yards from bridge for 4 hours, not even a knock. Bet a good stretch with reasonable levels though.