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River high but Legg Meadow fishable on inside line. Caught a big eel estimated 4lb+ on meat and a barbel just under 9lb on pellet. One other barbel lost. Probably should have tried a few more swims.

1 Barbel, 1 Other

Got on bank around 12-30, river still high but the muddy colour had eased and you could see vegetation 2ft down. Chose first swim over bridge, pellet/feeder fishing on a hair rig was a real pain to get back, because the flow pushed feeder and hook deep into bank side snags!! Opted for straight lead (4oz) and a paste of ground Elips pellets and a binding agent.

I used a big heavy bait dropper to put in regular small numbers of 10mm pellets, nothing for the first 4hrs !!!
then 2 reasonable Barbel all in the last hour. Quite happy with that bearing in mind it was very cold last night and the barometer was well over 1012. Think I will give the maggot a go next time, may induce a few silver fish to feed ?

2 Barbel

1 Trout

Very difficult conditions indeed. Only 1 fish, 10lb plus.

1 Barbel

River was in full flood, so fishing difficult. 4 chub were taken to 4lb. 5oz feeders were needed to hold bottom & only achievable in selected spots.
Could of been good on a different day, but that's fishing ! Will be back.

Weather - Fine and dry in morning, rain during afternoon.
Although varying methods of fishing tried, once again the fish (all approx 2+lb) were caught using ledger and inflated worm.
During discussion with wardens it appears to have generally been a poor days fishing.

5 Trout

The River Wye was bombing through and in angry mood only about 30 % of the beat was fishable with 4oz plus of lead needed everywhere!
We did find one peg later in the day with some slack water free of debris and had one big barbel bite that produced an epic scrap nearly pulling my son in! Sadly a hook pull at the rim of the landing net ended hopes of a happy ending-the eight year old was surprisingly mature at this disaster (far better than his distraught 37 year father!
Should be prefect by Thursday-good luck to whoever has booked on Thursday you lucky souls!!

All fish caught on worm with popup.

4 Trout

River was very high, fast and coloured. Had a great day despite the conditions. Did have some trouble holding bottom, but did manage to catch one barbel that fell to pellet. Will be back in the New Year for another go. Thanks.

1 Barbel

River high and pushing through. Fished 5oz feeder in the edge with two 12mm spicy sausage pellets on hair. 1 Eel and 3 Barbel going 5lb 15oz, 6lb 14oz and 10lb 1oz.
Worth the 220 mile round trip!

3 Barbel, 1 Other