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Arrived to find the river up four feet in a couple of days, but the water did not seem too cold for a result. 2 average size barbel taken on pellets around mid-afternoon, and a couple of missed half chances made for an interesting day.

Arrived midday. River was up and coloured (but not as high as the section by Ross) and we felt confident of a few barbel during the afternoon, early evening.

Unfortunately our confidence was misplaced and in spite of baiting and fishing a couple of areas all we had to show for our efforts was just one chub! First ever barbel "blank" on the Wye!

River coloured, and medium paced, G. caught 7 Barbel,
P. caught diddlesquat.

Biggest Barbel 7.5lbs down to 4lbs, all clean fish, no otter or cormerant marks.

Bait consisted of Halibut pellets, boilies, sausage
A beautiful setting, extremly tranquile, will be back.

P. 1 x Barbel 6.5lbs plus lots of small dace.
G. Diddlesquat.
Bait; bronze maggots, pellets, boilies.

Blank, no fish. Still, stunning setting.

Nil caught or seen.

Four of us went on the 13 Oct. The river was impossible to fish and that resulted in only one barbel came out in 8 hours.

One young brown trout - returned unharmed - caught on Heather fly.

After struggling on a rising river yesterday, we were relieved to find it dropping quite rapidly today, although still chocolate in colour. RB went for the static approach in a swim at the lower end of the beat and RW took a roving approach. RB had bites steadily throughout the day ending up with 6 barbel including two 8 pounders, and 2 chub. RW had to work hard for his fish, and caught 5 barbel to 6lb with 2 lost in two short bursts of action from different swims. All fish were caught on a mixture of boilies and halibut pellet.

Plenty of activity from the trout and we lost count of the number safely returned. No sign of any salmon but my companion did catch and return a 5lb sewin on the flying C. Lovely beat and plan to return in the spring for some good trout fishing.