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All fish fell to pellet or boilie. The chub were caught from various swims along the beat & barbel came from 1 swim near the pylon. River was up about three feet going through quite fast.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

Traveled from Essex on Sunday afternoon knowing the river was rising so not too optimistic.
Delighted to find, when I started today, that the river had been dropping overnight. Spent the first 2 hours down at the bottom bend opposite the pylon, no sign of fish so moved to the area approx 75yds d/s of the hut. Started catching barbel straight away, caught consistently for the rest of the day on ledger/pellet set up. Finished up with 12 barbel best being the last fish which was 9lb also had a 4lb 8oz chub. Never dreamed, when I left home, it would be as good as this.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

First swim only produced chub. Wanted barbel so changed swim early afternoon. Hooked 4 barbel in an hour, lost one. Next cast started getting weed hitting my line, river started to rise and barbel completely switched off, then continued to catch chub down the inside. Bit disappointing that the conditions changed and stopped me bagging up on barbel. Second time on this beat for me and it was mostly chub last time too. Lovely beat with good flat banks, very safe in wet conditions.

3 Barbel, 18 Chub

Not the best of conditions to fish in but an enjoyable day on a lovely beat.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

A tough day fishing, river was high, coloured and the fastest transport link for whole tree trunks down to Flip Flops!
I fished for 4 hours and caught 1 Barbel on pellet.

1 Barbel

With the river rising all day the fishing was unsurprisingly difficult. Some bites on meat late on almost certainly a chub, but really hard work in pouring rain. A rather large salmon showed itself spectacularly in the afternoon. A wonderful beat to which I shall return.

Sadly everything that could go wrong went wrong. Only managed a couple of hours late afternoon. One of the nicest panoramic beats I've visited. But as soon as I'd settled down it was pitch black. So no fish caught but this beat will be revisited. Can't wait.

All fish caught in the faster water near the pylons. River very low.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Water was the lowest I've seen on the Wye since we've fished here over the last 7 years. The weather was hot and sunny. Despite moving to several pegs over the beat and using different methods, we only managed 3 small chub. Hope we do better at Middle Hill Court tomorrow.

3 Chub

What a fantastic contrast to yesterday that saw a large bag of quality Chub. This time we trotted a large Avon style float with carp pellet fed heavily. The swim had some real pace running through it so a 10 gram Olivetti got the bait down to the barbel and they obliged us by feeding. 8 of them from 6-8lb and a solitary 4lb Chub On top of that we suffered 5 hook pulls.
I used to sit in front of a swim feeder which is a great method but catching fish like this on float tackle is so much more fun. Big thank you to Dave Harrelll who taught me the basics of this method. If anyone fancies catching Barbel on the float I thoroughly recommend calling Dave for a days guiding. Really enjoyable and hugely rewarding to be able to put it into practice afterwards.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub