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River low but some colour, chub everywhere caught to start with on pellet but switched to waggler fishing 2- 3 feet deep. Chub up to 4Lb. Great fun

1 Barbel, 25 Chub

Very different conditions from when I fished this venue almost exactly a year ago. Today the river was a little lower and very, very much weedier. Started off today in the Church stream, where last year caught a number of barbel. Did get one bite but the fish dived straight into weeds and dislodged the hook. After a couple of fruitless hours moved to the steps, as this had less weed than most swims. Hooked a chub, but again lost in the weed. The next fish was a reasonable barbel (just shy of 8 lb), which eventually was safely landed after twice getting tangled in the weeds. Another smaller barbel followed, then some chub up to to 3 lb. One of the larger chub was still leaking eggs. By 4 pm the bites stopped completely. Only one angler fished, as the other was persuaded that experiencing perpetual daylight in northern Norway was more exciting than the Wye. He may have been right.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

First time on this beat to find the river running low but with a touch of colour on a beautiful early summers day.
Plenty of fish caught throughout the day although largest Barbel only weighed in at 6lb 11oz and Chub 3lb 10oz.
Great days fishing we will be back thanks WAU.

10 Barbel, 25 Chub

4 Chub, 1 Other

First time on the Creel and was quite impressed with it, there's a good variety of water. Tried the faster water down the side of the island but this produced only chub. All the barbel came from the steadier water above the island. Most of the fish came in the evening but there were a couple of short feeding spells in the heat of the day, each producing 2 or 3 barbel in quick succession. Fish were caught fishing to far bank cover with feeder and a variety of baits.

14 Barbel, 19 Chub

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

river low with lots of weed catching the line 4 chub on pellets nice day.

4 Chub

Very hot and sunny day on the glorious Wye. Fished several swims from the lower reaches up to the church which is unusual for me and caught chub in all of them, most fish taken on the drop and even shortening the hooklink and swapping to a heavy feeder didn't deter them. Had a couple of barbel between 6 and 8lb and a number of chub between 2 and 4lb.

As with most beats it was just a glorious place to be.

Our second day was a bit more productive having found a couple of pegs where the fish seemed to be. Lots of chub and barbel turned on around midday, all to pellet. Unfortunately we had to pack up around 6 otherwise more fish would have been caught. A 12lb cock salmon was also taken that took some beating!! A good couple of days to start the season off.
WUF Note: We are very grateful for reporting the salmon capture. However, this fish won't be added to the "official" salmon catches as it was not caught on fly or spinner.

1 Salmon, 10 Barbel, 20 Chub

There were 4 of us booked at the Creel for the weekend. As expected things were slow but we all caught 1 or 2 barbell plus a few chub on pellet.

8 Barbel, 5 Chub