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fishing for barbel was very arduous for whatever reason, the only one caught was out of the nursery at less than a pound, the others were 9 Dace & 1 eel. some of the dace were very big, all caught on legered 8mm pellets with a feeder.
We did have a problem around midday when a canoe business owner turned up stating that he was going to land around 8 canoes in the fishing hut swim, despite our protests he said that he paid the owner of the stretch for this facility, the result was that we had around 8 canoes milling around the swim while being dragged one by one up the bank and carried to waiting transport, our fishing equipment had to be moved out of the way to avoid being trampled on and needless to say we caught very little after all of this commotion, we were not happy especially as we had paid a lot of money to fish this swim and didn't expect to share it with a load of canoes

1 Barbel, 19 Chub, 10 Other

23 Chub

10 Chub

Lovely day in the fast water.
fish caught on float and feeder

5 Barbel, 20 Chub

Hot and sunny day river level low 5 chub caught late on in the day all on meat the other was an eel.

5 Chub, 1 Other

1 x 2lb Eel

9 Barbel, 42 Chub, 1 Other

A warm , mostly cloudy evening seemed to augur well, with the Wye still at a normal summer level and flow. However, the barbel weren't co-operating and I finished with five goodish chub and a number of bites missed or fish lost.

5 Chub

Chub were in lots of places but water was low☹️

4 Barbel

After tackling the (in)famous hill we set down in a swim just upstream of the Lucky Stone. The river was generally low and clear but we were able to fish 2-3 lengths out on a ‘crease’ between flowing water and fast flowing water. Using a mix of feeder and lead, meat and pellet, the chub came steadily: only one barbel of 7lb 7oz that surprisingly didn’t put up much of a fight. Chub ranged from 2lb to 4lb 11oz and looked as if they should have weighed more (thin after spawning??) it was a bit of a tackle graveyard, losing feeders and hooks to rocks (used lighter line connecting feeders to rig. Went and fished upstream of the hut into the evening, was slow though started to come alive post 7pm. Caught one eel here. The Wye remains a favourite place for us, never a bad beat, though some swim access improvement would not go amiss.

1 Barbel, 26 Chub, 1 Other

2 anglers fished the stretch today. My colleague fished the near the hut and caught 17 of the chub and I made the long, at times comical trip up the hill and over to the Lucky Stone. The fish came throughout the day but whatever we tried we just couldn't find the barbel.
It's a lovely stretch and once the barbel have stopped spawning and there is more water on we will be back.

31 Chub