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Did not fish due to heavy rain and gale force winds

My first time time to this beat and it won't be my last. A really well managed and very scenic part of the Wye with easy access to all of the pegs.

I managed to catch 5 decent size Chub with feeder tactics in the middle section. I lost one good barbel to a hook pull which was a little annoying so need to check those in the future. The river was pushing through at about 1m but falling during the day so decided not to try a trot which may have been a mistake although controlling the float would have been a bit tricky.

The lack of barbel was probably down to my angling experience rather than anything else looking at previous posts and I would thoroughly recommend a day's fishing here.

5 Chub

Only 1 fished,same conditions as the day before

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Tough day really struggled nil Caught

River about a metre up. River pushing through hard. Not much slack to go at . Nil caught

River dropping but fish not responding,all fish caught late in the day

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

Only 1 fished,river rising with rubbish coming down making life difficult still had a nice day though

9 Barbel, 9 Chub

Tried the deeper water off the lower croys in the morning, just a few Chub. Headed down to the bottom at 2pm for some madness and ran out of bait at 6.30 pm.

Another enjoyable day and my companion caught his first Barbel (“don’t they ever go” he said), he had a larger one near the end of the day and now has 6-14 as his PB.

5 Barbel, 32 Chub

Came back after a successful visit last year. There seems to be a lot more snags this time, due to the very high levels over the winter no doubt.

Nevertheless a lovely place to be, unbelievably quiet due to the road closure too.

9 Barbel, 13 Chub