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36 Barbel, 5 Chub and 1 Eel on Pellet Corn and Boillie. Caught fish from several swims. Between the three of us we also lost approximately 20 Barbel to hook pulls and snags.

Caught 19 fish between us, 10 chub and 9 barbel. Another very enjoyable day on the Wye.

Nice section 1 chub & 8 barbel. On meat, bread & pellet.
Field only good for 4 x 4 but parking at bottom of section is fine. First swims fished best.

The River had coloured up and risen over the previous afternoon and night. The usual productive swims on this beat failed to produce to any great extent, I do not know why?? 1 barbel to 4lb and 2 large chub all to pettel & corn.

Got to river about 2ish. Sat out a wicked thunder storm in the car, got on the bank about 2.30pm, set up and fished the feeder with hair rigged corn and corn and chilli hemp in the feeder. A shoal of dace destroyed the 3 grains every time!! Set up the float and rod fished a single grain on a size 16 for a good hour taking 20 nice dace and 4 chub to 2lbs. From 4pm to 7pm switched to 2 10mm elipse pellet and ground halibut in the feeder and took 9 very fit Barbel to 6lbs. Bank holiday weekend saw constant canoe traffic until 5.30pm which was when the barbel came on. did notice 2 Cormorants arrive as I left and land in the big ash tree on the RH bank !

The fishery was easy to find and access from the car park was good. However, despite the fishery being over a mile long there were only a handful of swims with adequate access to the water to be able to fish. Some of the first swims had very high banks and it was not possible, even with a long, fully extended landing net handle, to reach the water to be able to safely land a fish. This could have been a consequence of rain in the week raising the water level to cover areas people could normally step down onto to fish. Nevertheless the three of us found swims to fish and had good sport, for the most part anyway! I caught 2 barbel of 4lb 13oz and 5lb 15oz on fishmeal boilies fished in conjunction with a groundbait feeder filled with halibut pellets. My father, MB, caught 5 chub to over 3lb, an eel of around a pound and two barbel, one around 6lb and the other 6lb 4oz. All his fish came to feeder fished halibut pellets. The third member of our group, fishing from the 2nd swim of the fishery (MB fished the 3rd swim and I fished about 300m downstream of that) sadly blanked, despite using similar tactics. All in all a good day was enjoyed by all of us, even MC who blanked! But it is worth noting that the 2nd field (I didn't walk any further than the 2nd field) is lined by a fence and only allows access to the river to make one fishable swim. Given this field is probably one third of the length of the fishery we were a little disappointed as this, coupled with the high banks and over grown banks of the first area, meant there was a vast expanse of fishy looking water we couldn't access. I am 30 but my fishing partners for the day are both over 60. I was able to explore the overgrown, slippery and steep areas (to some extent) but sadly they weren't so their fishing was very limited. Personally I love river fishing as it's natural and I don't like fishing commercial pools with man made swims right on top of one another. So I don't raise the point about a lack of access for any other reason than to inform people, especially those of an older generation that our experience told us that although there is over one mile of bank available in this fishery, the vast majority of it is completely unfishable. However, it's still the Wye, it's still a beautiful wild river and there are some stunning fish to be caught!!

Fishing from 6.30am until 11 am, one swim produced 5 fish. 3 x chub and 2 x barbel. A further 2 fish were hooked but lost on snags.
A very enjoyable first trip to the Wye under the Passport system and will definatley be booking again. Stayed local at Pilgrim house, although breakfast is too late and last servings of dinner is tight for twilight fishing.

2 fish.

1 rod blanked the other rod caught 2 barbel, biggest 7lbs & 2 chub. All fish caught on robin red pellet. It was hard to locate fish despite trying 10 swims between us on a day which looked ideal conditions but thats fishing I guess. Will be back soon.

A lovely part of the river and a very nice beat, but it needs more peg making towards the top end of the beat where the river is deeper and slower, otherwise I feel people will only fish here once, which will be a great pity as the beat could be made very good. We caught 32 barbel between 4lb and 9lb and 6 chub to 5lb on 8mm halibut pellet. All but 2 of the fish were caught from either the very bottom 2 pegs or the the top 2 pegs, with 18 barbel coming from 1 peg near the top end.
The walk up and down the hill is NOT for the faint hearted. This was our last day of our 3 day visit on the Wye, and between 3 of us have caught 70 barbel, and I would like to thank all at the Wye and Usk Foundation for the wonderful service you provide.