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River holding steady but low with brown water. The fish never really got into feeding. They were there but it seemed like they were having an off day. I feel spoilt sometimes when I consider 30+ good sized Chub and 7 Barbel an off day. Great looking place and plenty of good water to go at.

7 Barbel, 30 Chub

Cloudy warm day, river very low, caught on pellet and meat
We did clear and dig out some swims as no much choice compared to last year in the first field, enjoyable day

2 Barbel, 6 Chub, 3 Other

Due to being on a family holiday I only managed a couple of hours in the morning and a hour or so in the evening ... a very long beat with plenty of good looking areas to fish ... the directions and vehicle access were perfect .. definitely a beat that I will return to when I have more time.
Many thanks W&U

1 Chub

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

easy access just watch the dips at the gate

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

9 Barbel into double figures, 6 Chub up to 5lb.
Thoroughly enjoyed the day.

9 Barbel, 6 Chub

8 Chub

What a frustrating day and yet exciting. Fished Beat 2 just downstream from the island. Plenty of water movement and quite windy blowing downstream. So first the frustration - I missed a barbel (more later) - and loads of canoe traffic. The wind and current meant it was virtually impossible to keep bait and feeder still in the gullies. I probably wasn't fishing heavy enough so even a 30g feeder full of groundbait and a 12 or 15mm pellet as hook bait was washing downstream very quickly. Line was also being dragged by the current.

Now the exciting bits, when it was possible to hold bait in position I had a number of bites culminating at about 10:00 with a solid take from what was easily a low double figure barbel. Just out of range of my landing net it simply sat dead weight on the bottom of about 3 - 4 feet of water, and then in one sudden upward lunge it snapped my hook length about 3 inches above the hook. It would have been my first Wye barbel and definitely means I'll be coming back for more. No other bites were converted.

Only me fishing whole stretch took along while but they started to feed about 2ish surprising perfect conditions just didnt happen early on all luck i suppose

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

6 Barbel, 25 Chub