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Lucky rock - 47 chub and 3 barbel. Chub to 5lb and Barbel to 7lb. Caught mostly on feeder and pellet but also floating down meat. Great day!!!

3 Barbel, 47 Chub

Arrived at 2pm for an evening session. Weather was not so nice. Rain and wind hindered fishing until 5pm when it settled down a bit. I found somewhere sheltered but didn’t have a bite. Tried above the stile and had one chub. Was not looking good. Never say die so I moved again and found a lovely glide with a dark channel. Trotted meat all evening and had a fabulous time catching lots of chub mostly 2-3lb. Biggest nudged 5lb and caught an immaculate 6lb barbel. Very quiet. Nice beat. M50 east bound shut made journey home a pain. Lovely evenings fishing

1 Barbel, 24 Chub

Good days fishing , one decent chub, all others under 1lb

25 Chub

Great day. Couldn't get the large numbers to keep feeding, bites came in bursts throughout the day. All on the feeder, couldn't get anything on the float.

12 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Tough day, wet, very windy and cold - 3 layer day. River as low as I have ever see it.
Concentrated on few sections where fast water and a bit of depth met.
Wasted a few hours downstream of bridge. Nothing and no signs of any fish.
Moved upstream, chopped and changed dry flies and eventually had 3 wet up to 10" and 1 grayling of about 12".
Were a few flies hatching but only the occasional rise.
Packed up early - cold and wet through.
Have fished Lyepole many times over the years ( was JSM from Kingsland) and I have to say it does fail to meet expectations everytime I fish here.
Not good value compared to Wye and Usj beats.
But I will say all WUF water much better value and more productive than Arundel Arms beats!
Back to the hordes in Devon now and back to targeting bass - lures not flies I am afraid.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout

The box above won’t allow me to put in 20 which is an estimate - I lost count. A lot of fish around 10” which were in very good condition. I landed about 4 in the 12/13” bracket which were quite slim by comparison.
The better fish were taken on a bibio hopper on the dropper.
WUF Note: Number box fixed!

20 Trout

First time at Sugwas, a very nice stretch of river, well maintained. Two chub, best one 4lb 2oz; couldn't stay late so a bit early to leave for the barbel.

2 Chub

One Rainbow in fairly good condition 2lb.
One small Perch, returned.

1 Trout, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 6 Chub