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Day 3 of our Wyefest 25, which included 2 non WUF waters.

River conditions were good with the gauge at RoW being about 1m and the river falling. The weather was much as forecast- grey with some showers, but perfectly acceptable.

The directions to the fishery were OK but the W3W location would have been better on the gate to the field and the sign being fixed to the fence. We elected to drive to the downstream car park and had a recce but had difficulty identifying the downstream end of the fishery. A sign would have helped.

We fished the picturesque swim immediately by the downstream car park and were on fish straight away. The best barbel being 9.5Lbs and a chub which must have been very close to 5Lbs.The hot bite only lasted an hour or so but a few more fish were picked up until mid afternoon , when we called it a day.

Another of the party went into our swim for the remainder of the day and was rewarded with a very good 8Lb 3oz barbel.

Most successful bait - Spam, spam , spam. Mix of swimfeeder and straight lead .

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

2 Chub

Great stretch, with good number of accessible swims. Track leading to river is steep, but easily manageable even after a little rain, although probably wouldn't push my luck if extremely wet as even driving along the riverbank to the furthest car park would be a challenge. River was rising fast for the last few hours, which made life awkward, but some lovely fish caught. Largest Barbel 9.10 and some super Chub, largest 5.7 - meat accounted for all but one fish, which was caught on boilie. 4 fished.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

We caught 14 Barbel to 8lb 8oz & 2 Chub

14 Barbel, 2 Chub

several barbel throughout the day biggest weighing 8lb 12oz, 8lb 2oz and 7lb 12 oz, the others averaging 5-7lb, lots of small chub and dace caught trotting a float with sweetcorn, once feeding it was 1 a chuck. Great days fishing

8 Barbel, 99 Chub, 9 Other

5 Barbel, 12 Chub

Our first visit to this fishery so we did not know where to fish. We tried 2 different swims with no success, but moving to a third swim in front of the car park for the last hour did produce some bites, and we did land one barble and a good chub.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Did not fish.

River was up 3inches clear slight run to just show the odd crease. Tried 4 different swims settled on last which got me 3 small Barbel of around 4lb.all on feeder with Kriller dumbells on hair.

3 Barbel

Had fished various beats all week. This was my last day and was looking forward to a good days catch but got down the track only to be caught up in heavy thunderstorms, waited for an hour checked forecast and didn't look like weather was going to let up so called it a day before track became to difficult to get up. Not what I wanted but that's life. Still had a good week. So happy days.