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4 Rainbow Trout caught using worm as bait.

4 Rainbow Trout caught, two on spinning rod and two using worm as bait.

We both fished various flies until 8.30pm, no fish caught.

22 barbel, 4 chub and 2 eels over 2 days. River up and coloured and going like a train. fished from bottom of beat to treeline in as many swims that were fishable. Pellet and meat the baits used with feeder and PVA 6oz weights needed at times. Great fishing as usual. Thanks.

25 trout and a few salmon parr. Lovely beat but very little fly life or surface activity today. Lost a really good trout after a long fight which I estimated at 3lb plus.
Most fish taken on double nymph and French Leader & the duo although some taken on dry. All fish fighting wildies. Most fish took the point fly, a JT flashback nymph.

WUF service excellent and most helpful.

4 barbel. River running high, fast and nicely coloured.
120gm feeder (but it still swung round to the inside) with 8mm pellets or elips on the hook. Fished from the second croy and found it better to sit and wait for bites, I only fished from mid-day to 5pm so probably not too bad. Well I enjoyed it anyway.

Thanks to Tony the river keeper, we avoided the very long walk to the river. He was good enough to come down the track as he saw us arriving and lead us along another track, right to the river's edge. After a promising start on the pylon swims where we caught 8 Barbel and lots of Chub the river died on us as lunchtime approached.
Pellets the best bait, then a few more on the meat.

Our third trip to the Wye this year and the first time it stayed dry - at least until the evening!
The river was down, about 3ft above normal. We wasted time looking for a swim on the lower section, rope pool etc still too treacherous because of recent flooding - How do you access the Ford stream pool? We couldn't find it. The fishing is double bank - but no access or parking shown on map for the far bank?
Anyway, we fished the top end, and while the fishing was slow with long periods between bites we eventually ended up 15 barbel to 9 1/2lbs, with the rest between 6 - 8lbs, plus a few chub.
Another most enjoyable but challenging day.

My first trip to courtfeild, what a fantastic day I had. I looked for a swim with a bit of comfort to be honest after sitting in the mud and skating around on it all afternoon the day before. The first 5 casts produced 1 chub, 3 barbel and 1 lost. What a start. By 12 noon I had caught 10 barbel 5 chub. This can't continue i thought? By 3.45pm I was on 16 barbel, 6 chub, then it slowed down catching 1 more before I went at 8.45pm. The final score was 17 barbel to 8lbs and 6 chub to 5lbs 3oz, with a few lost to hook pulls snags etc ,all on pellet and boilie and open end feeder. Great to be able to speak to someone like Don who literally knows the river inside out,enjoyed the chat. Last thing I even managed to catch a barbel within seconds of a canoe going over the top of my bait with one of the chaps in the canoe playing a banjo. You never quite know whats going to happen with a days fishing on the wye!

River very high and pretty unfishable with no real pools or features visible. Wading difficult due to flow. Some colour in the water. Caught one very small brown trout at the downstream end of the beat close to bank in a slower section. About 6 inches long. Seemed v healthy. Caught on Shuttlecock Buzzer. Heard a couple of fish leaping.