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4 Barbel, 9 Chub

River level ok No fish caught.

Fished from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm. Dreadful conditions in the morning with torrential rain, then overcast all day.
First cast was the first bite with the first three fish being chub. Bits were constant throughout the day with the remaining fish mainly being barbel. Chub were between 3 - 4 lb and the barbel were between 5 - 7 lb. Caught most of the fish on 2 Complex-T 12mm boilies.
An amazing day I will never forget!

12 Barbel, 6 Chub

3 Chub

Very little optimism on arrival, we've fished this beat a few times and have never seen it so low, however this proved useful for spotting features for future reference.
After considerable exploration with no sign of fish, apart from a couple of Chublets, we eventually found a likely looking spot and fed it a bit.
First 3 runs through produced 3 decent Barbel and we soon had both Barbel and Chub lined up.
All fish caught on Stick float with pellets as bait.

13 Barbel, 10 Chub

The hottest day I've ever fished the Wye, expecting a bit of a struggle we arrived around 2.00pm and had a good walk along the whole of the beat to try to make decent swim selections, then fished from around 3.30pm. My long-time fishing friend opted for a nice comfortable swim near the car (he has had two knee replacements so I'll excuse him), whilst I opted for a swim that was barely accessible down a steep slope but obviously contained fish. The barbel decided to rip up the rule book and feed voraciously in the blazing sunshine - caught six in six casts between 3.30pm and 6.30pm. After that they backed off a bit but had another two before packing up at 8.30pm. It would have been possible to catch more but in the conditions the barbel needed a really good rest in the landing net before going home (and to be honest I was knackered too). By contrast, a blank for Mr. No-Knees in the comfy swim. I felt bad for him, but he did catch a double -figure barbel on my rod in my swim on our previous trip so I guess that's karma.

8 Barbel

4 Chub

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Really struggled on what is normally a good stretch for me, tried all areas with all methods but couldn't find any feeding barbel, rewarded at around 9pm by a fish I catch regularly there (distinctive by the tumour on its tail)

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Barbel, 3 Chub