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My first time on home fishery, fished swim by bottom car park
My target was barbel, fished from 5am till 9.30 pm
Chub and more chub between 1 lb to 5 1/2lb most 3-4lb
Fish caught right through the day
Then my last fish was a barbel 7lb, got what I came for !
A fabulous days fishing will be back
Thanks

1 Barbel, 21 Chub

1 Chub

Didn't really start fishing till 12, had a few fish on the off then it went dead, few swim moves before finding a few fish again.. finished with 12 chub for the day average 3-4 lb

12 Chub

Arrived and set up near lower parking area only to be visited by a huge bull who wanted a drink from my swim (no signage that he was present)! After chasing him away to give me room to reload the car and move to top end above pumping station. Fishing slow and had 1 small chub plus 6 eels on meat.

1 Chub, 8 Other

Coolest day of the week after a week of extreme heat warnings. River now very low which has really hinderd the Barbel movement with such low oxygen levels and high water temperatures the rivers are in real need of rainfall. Managed 4 Chub again around 3.5lb could of had more if I had shortened the hair and hook length, krill and Bloodworm dumbells doing the trick on the feeder. Will as ever return later in season.

4 Chub

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Decided not to fish due to extreme heat red warning. This follows 3 days of amber heat warnings. So decided to survey and find the parking areas of other beats that I have booked. Thought of going back to do a late evening session. Do like this fishery But it was just too hot still. Will be back.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Barbel caught in fast water using swim feeder and spam
chub caught trotting, again spam was the bait. Steady flowing water as it approached shallows / rapids
Hot clear day

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Weather conditions hot. Found some early sport up to 12.00 which produced 2 Barbel, best of the pair 8lb. 8 Chub followed all a good 3-4lb and 6 eels all came to touch line luncheon meat. Pub lunch followed at Inn on the Wye. Back for afternoon and evening session which resulted in nothing more caught. 4 swims tried. Barbel not moving out of the more oxygenated water yet. This is possibly due to later than normal spawning at a guess. River levels seemed normal. Barbel just not moving about yet. Nothing on the usual types of dumbells.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 6 Other