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River high and falling - 4 barbel from 9.5 lbs to 4 lbs on halibut pellet. All fish in excellent condition. Chub conspicuous by their absence. Very enjoyable day. Clear instructions and map. Many thanks.

River was fairly high and pushing through quite a bit faster than on any of our previous visits. As a result we fished just into the flow on the near bank. Neil sat down on the steps in the middle of the beat. I went down to the pylon swim, but soon discovered I couldn't manage to fish it as I had planned with method feeder. I went back up to towards the middle of the beat. In the end, we both had two barbel around the seven pound mark. They certainly hung on in the current and gave a great scrap. Neil took his two (and lost a couple) on boilies. Mine were on pellet using method feeder. When I tried switch to boilie, I ended up catching a chub that was probably just a pound and a half. Gradually the rain really started to set in so we left a little early.

Another good day on the Wye, caught 5 chub on pellet and finally caught my first barbel at the fishing hut, not a bad size at 5lb 10oz. Defo coming back.

River pushing through full of leaves, twigs and weed catching on line constantly. No barbel but a couple of chub caught.

Good day had, caught 8 chub all over 5lb. Caught on red robbin pellet. Few salmon showing on the beat. Definitely comming back.

Started off by making the descision to fish the fishing hut bank rather than making the long journey round, what a v-good decision this turned out to be, managed to catch 4 barbel to 6lb and 2 chub 2lbs in the confluence pool during overcast conditions. As soon as the sun came out my swim died a death. Decided to move above John in next swim up, he was clearly on the barbel with 1 barbel that looked like a double. He decided to leave and said you should jump in here, so I did - I had another 5 barbel, biggest 9lb 14oz with two 7+s and two 6.5lbs all on pellet. What an amazing days fishing on the Wye - the beat is short but very very sweet!

Our third visit in as many weeks to the Wye and, at last, my first barbel at 7lb caught just as light was fading. Between us, we also had a few decent chub to just under 5lb and another smaller barbel. We thought about fishing near the confluence with the Lugg but the sight of 9-10 Mergansers working the pool made us think better of it. The Mergansers flew off but no doubt they will be back - I logged them on the cormorant watch site. A lovely stretch of the river - we'll definitely be back.

Very poor day. Started fishing about 9.30am, we had takes for the first hour or two, lost 4 fish and landed 1 barbel (6lb 13oz) and then it went dead for the rest of the day. Moved around alot but still didn't seem to have much luck.

Water low and clear but a lovely day for fishing. I'm afraid that the barbel outsmarted me (not difficult) but ended the very enjoyable day with 8 chub,the biggest weighing in at 5lb. Tried all the usual baits and all worked for the chub.
Another day booked for the 6th, on a different beat, which I am looking forward to. Thanks.

Return visit river low and clear as to be expected with the previous weeks weather. Barbel of 6lb second cast of day with another of similar size later in day both on pellet. 3 Chub between 3 & 4lb. Fished middle of the day with trotting gear plenty of small Dace and Chublets virtually a fish each run through, encouraging to see. Apologies got back to the car and found that print out of confirmation and beat details had fallen from back pocket, this obviously has name, address etc so if found I was not intentionally littering.