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A short day, before heading home. Water dropping. Two barbel, one chub and some dace. River felt full of life once more.

5 barbel - lovely day but fishing slow with little sign of activity between bites. All fish on pellets & pellet tipped with corn.

1 x Barbel 7lb, 1 x Chub 5.5lb

Only 2 thought the trip would be worth it with the river up. Both rods had a fish each but couldn't move around enough to find fish.

We we were the only 2 rods booked on this day, rather disappointed that 2 other anglers were there already in the best swims. They said they had booked through the farmer, though this was found to be untrue as the farmer had no knowledge of this. They paid whatever and were allowed to carry on. According to a farm worker anglers often turn up without booking.
Anyway they went in the afternoon we moved into the pegs and had 4 barbel upto 7lb and 3 chub to just under 4lb in around 3 hours fishing. The first part of the day we fished at the very top end of the beat but with no catch.

Lovely days fishing. 5 Barbel between 4/6 lb all on pellet.
Despite low clear water and loose weed and bright sunny day, fished fast deep water and the barbel all came in the afternoon..
If you are looking for excellent accommodation near to beat try the Falcon House at How Caple. Met the owner, very friendly.

A warm bright day. The river was quite clear. I started at the top of the beat in the deeper water and had a chub of 1 1/2lbs quite quickly, then nothing so early afternoon I moved right to the lower end of the beat where the shallow fast water deepens and there had another chub of 2lbs and my first ever barbel at 5lbs. All were taken on boilies. Lovely beat and shall return.

7 barbel, best 8.5lbs

Although told to expect other anglers it was disappointing to find 3 other anglers on our booked beat, they were also pretty upset to see us thinking they had booked the beat exclusively through the farmer. Another disapponiting day with only 1 good chubb caught.

Bit of a tough day. We both had a couple of barbel but the downstream wind of 25 mph didnt help much. I find this beat very peggy and one where if you get fish you need to invest time and effort to maximise results. Sadly we didn't really fish it that well and the results showed. As always its great to be on the Wye. Thanks to WUF.