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Didn’t fish… weather was atrocious

Rained all day. Nothing doing in the morning. Dried off then returned for an hour approaching sunset and unexpectedly caught a nice barbel and a chub in the current alongside the two pools accessible from the bank path, on bounced meat, amazing sport in the fast current. Waders necessary here and any fixed leads or feeders will only get snagged.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Rain didn,t affect river and struggled .

1 Barbel

Despite heavy rain throughout the day I caught 8 chub on luncheon meat best about 5lbs. No sign of any barbel though

8 Chub

It rained when I started. Fished the last croy no success. Moved to the bend, caught 4 barbel until a cormarant decided to pop up in my swim, gave it another hour, nothing. Time to head for home. It was still raining.

4 Barbel

Wettest day fishing for a long time. Swims muddy and treacherous, but survivable with peg and rope and mud-crampons(!)
Virtually no sign of life apart from a stream of bubbles (Otter?) in Jack's swim, plus kingfishers, clattering pheasants, a couple of rats and the biggest robin I've ever seen which kept bouncing on and off my rod. Then as the light fell (to be honest it was gloomy all day) a shoal of chub moved into my swim and I had 3 nice chub in swift succession (Biggest looked not much short of 5lb), then a last cast barbel, which i deservedly lost through sheer cack-handed incompetence on my part. Jack suffered a frustrating day plagued by snags.
Hard Work!
... and then the rain finally stopped!

3 Chub

Another great day on the Wye. Started in the top field, moved soon after an otter decided he wanted to be in my swim as well.
Found the fish in the faster water after the concrete road across the river, all on pellet.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

Still a struggle with just 1 barbel, hopefully the rain will liven things up.

1 Barbel

5 Barbel

Only a few bites all day but Barbel was my 1st from the Wye. My scales registered 11lb! What a monster fish. My personal best by far. Very happy.

1 Barbel