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River up around 4ft and whilst not too coloured, it was a cold and difficult day with few fish caught - mostly small small chub, dace and minnows. Would love to come back when the river is in better condition.

First visit to fish the Wye, hoping for some chub and barbel. Overnight frost didn't help with the barbel but the river was running with a bit of colour following rain earlier in the week. Caught 3 Chub during the day. One at spot on 4lb from the top end of the beat in the morning and 2 smaller ones at 2.8 and 2.12 from the lower end in the afternoon. All came from slacker water below trees or in cut backs in the bank. All came to cheese paste wrapped around a hair-rigged halibut pellet.
Can't wait to come back for another crack with a better idea of what to expect.

Not the best day to fish the Wye after very heavy rain the previous day. By packing up time, it had risen 5 feet with trees, dead sheep and masses of weed floating down. Fortunately we both had chub on the first cast and my companion landed a small barbel otherwise it would have been a blank.

Fished the meadow in the morning nil catch. Moved down to the wood in the afternoon 1 chub 2 1/2lb 2 barbel 2 1/2lb and a 10lb 4oz cracker to end the day. Pellet and meat.

Fished the previous two days on another stretch of the Wye and found it hard going - this stretch also difficult. I landed one barbel around 5 pounds (not weighed), one of the other guys blanked fishing for barbel and another fishing for pike had one fish around 11 pounds. Fishing with meat or pellet produced no bites a change to red maggot on a hair rig clip started to produce bites and subsequently the one barbel of the day. A beautiful stretch of the Wye and despite the lack of fish a most enjoyable day

4 Barbel to 8lb all on pellets, and one small pike of 7lb.

Having had some great sport at Backney the previous day, my companion Gavin and I arrived at Holme Lacy with high expectation. The weather conditions looked ideal, overcast and 12c with the river carrying just a little colour. After walking the section we settled into swims on the downstream end of the stretch. Gavin was very soon into a 6 lb plus barbel whilst I was finding all the snags in front of me with every cast so moved into cable crib. Once again I found the snags with increasing regularity which wasn't helped by weed dislodging the feeder and pulling the hook into various nooks and crannys. As the morning wore on the debris coming downstream decreased and presenting a bait became easier although 4 oz was needed to hold bottom in many areas. I managed two barbel, a chub and lost a barbel and Gav too had another barbel. At lunch time I had a rove around with a deadbait in various swims looking for pike but to no avail. We then met Colin the Ghillie who was very helpful and interesting to talk to, and on his advice decided to move to swims at the top end of the section for the afternoon. I caught a succession of barbel and chub from my new swim, as did Gav from his. The way these barbel fight has to be experienced to be believed! Amazing battle every time and what stunning specimens to boot.
We finished the day with 10 barbel between us from 4 1/4 lb to 6 3/4 lb and 7 small chub. All caught on a variety of baits.
A great days sport in stunning surroundings. Can't wait to go back.

Two barbel up to 8.5 lbs - one small chub about 3 lbs.

Caught 2 barbel diectly after arriving - 12 o clock but that was it for the day despite trying several swims. Opposite bank was busy with anglers.

River low but still lightly coloured. Weather relatively mild for the time of year - on the whole things looked promising. In spite of moving about and trying boilies, pellets and meat, only 1 barbel caught of about 8lbs, plus 7 or 8 chub up to maybe 3.5lbs. Looks like the barbel have shut up shop for the winter, but still a lovely place to spend a day.