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river low clear and very cold, bright sun, thought it would be hard and it was but the grayling turned up, didnt know they were there. One of the chub was an old warrior too so all in all a good dayi

5 Grayling, 2 Chub

3 Chub

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

A difficult start to the day as one of us (not me!) misjudged the conditions in dealing with the flooded bit of track and got his car stuck. Many thanks go to Allyson at WUF for reporting our predicament to the landowner, them for responding, and the ever brilliant Stefan for towing the car out with a tractor.
That apart, conditions looked perfect for this time of year: high and dropping, loads of colour, 8.1 water temp. I blanked from a normally reliable swim but Steve managed two barbel of 3 and 5lb from two different swims on feeder and 10mm halibuts, both in the few few casts after starting. Good chat with two nice lads from Windsor, and help from the fifth chap with my car slipping - we really are a pretty decent bunch us anglers.

2 Barbel

River running at 2.5m on Ross gauge, air temp 7-9 degrees C.
I fished solely at the lower end and between rain, bites were not exactly prolific. Caught 4 chub to around 4lb on maggot feeder or meat on GB feeder. Lovely well kept venue kept by Stefan which I assume accounts in part for the price increase on this beat. To be fair this beat has more fishable swims than many other WUF venues.

4 Chub

River peaked and started dropping. Was just in its banks. Lovely place to fish. Lots of swims have ropes.
Stefan the bailiff was very helpful.

6 Barbel

4 Barbel

River had a nice colour & was pushing through, warmer water temperature seamed to have switched the Barbel on all of which came from the upper end of the beat, a new pb was landed by D at 11lb 14oz, a cracking fish for the Wye. Weather conditions were atrocious for humans but must have suited the fish as 7 Whiskers were landed, the lone Chub came from the bottom swim, banks became very slippery by the end of the day, I nearly ended up in the river. A good day's fishing

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fishing with grandson Henry, his first time on the Wye. On his second cast he caught his first ever chub weighing 4lbs 10oz, what a great start. In spite of the weather, we had a very enjoyable day finishing up with 5 chub and a grayling. His last chub caught was the best, weighing exactly 5lbs. Certainly a day to remember for us both.

1 Grayling, 5 Chub

A quick afternoon session, the water temperature was 5.4, so I wasn't optimistic about my chances of any Barbel. I fished a large piece of spam and netted a Chub of about 3lb in the first hour , I didn't get a knock for the second hour, scaling everything down to a 14mm pellet on a 14 hook hooked into the first Barbel as a was putting the rod on the rest and the second a few minutes later. MHC is a well kept beat a few of the swims have received a batteriing from this winters floods.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub