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Clear, bright sunny day. A beautiful stretch of river, but unfortunately spoilt by the noisy smelly abstraction pump that runs all day close to the most productive looking swims. I use Wye and Usk regularly, but this was a disappointing day due to lack of fish and the noisy environment.

Fishing very poor with one of the 3 anglers getting no bites at all in 2 days! Water colour was good but level a little low with very little weed coming down the river. All anglers were bottom fishing with various different baits tried. Plain ledgers and swim feeders were tried, with ground bait and loose feed used.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another great day on the majestic River Wye.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished the whole beat from 10 until dusk. A few fish rising to olives but only one landed. Lovely beat with a great variety of water.

1 Trout

Ray Oakley had a 10 lb salmon on a thunder lighning at Eardislry on the 2 oct

1 Salmon

River low and clear but enjoyable day as always. Fished the far bank a little more on this visit and LD had success rolling meat for the Chub. Tried float rod for couple of hours in afternoon plenty of Chublets and Dace to maggot along with a lovely Brownie of around 1lb. Fair amount of Salmon activity along beat. Barbel was only a small fish and fell to pellet halfway along roadside bank.

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 6 Chub, 30 Other

Turned out to be a very warm, sunny day after a foggy cold morning. Most of the action after lunch on the usual feeder and pellet method.

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time at Wyebank. Had a fairly tough day, water very shallow near side and flying through across, 5oz held bottom but best angle was to fish from the cross to reduce line curve. No tiny fish, all over 4lb best 6lb. Stunning day as the sun cleared the mist. Will be back having worked a few things out. Thanks to Don for advice.

6 Barbel

Final day and, as forecast, no change in the weather! 2 opted for the lower section and caught 1 barbel of 7.13 on pellet (also lost 2) and a chub of 3.8. The other 2 were at the top of Legg Meadow and landed 1 barbel of around 3lbs.
This is our 4th annual visit to Courtfield and it's always a pleasure just to be there.
Our catches haven't been prolific, but except for one "old bruiser" the barbel have been in superb condition and included 3 doubles. As always, thank you Don-it was good to have a chat and catch up on your news.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Sept 30th : Caught one small wbt on the Cothi Crugybar beat in the daytime. Very bright, sunny day, not ideal. Night time went to Towy Llanwrda for sea trout - clear and moonlit, very little sign of fish movement, nothing caught.
Oct 1st: Pipe Pool in evening for sea trout and caught nothing. Chap on the other side was clearly fishing for brown trout - interesting on first day of close season!
Tried for sea trout on Towy Wenallt at night - clear, moonlit night with very high tide, nothing caught.

1 Trout