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Cold hard day in truly stunning setting. Start temp was -5 and by 3pm rose to -1. Two chub and a lost barbel. Fish were hard to find

2 Chub

Only fished for 2 hours river cold and lifeless not a bite even the swans took to the fields!

Very peaceful beat. Targeted pike initially with lures, nothing happening! The river was coming through at quite a pace but still lots of good looking and accessible areas for the pike. Couple of big salmon spotted on the move and counted 60+ swans on the water at one time although they didn't cause any probs. Decided at 3pm to have an hour or so going for barbel or chub. First cast produced a screaming run, slide down the bank(not the first of the day) which resulted in a snapped rod and a lost fish. This was gonna be one of those days I thought!
With the last piece of luncheon meat I free lined it down the edge and straight away a bite and an immaculate chub of 3 lb saved the day....will be back

1 Chub

4 Chub

very cold frosty day, nothing caught.

This was our first visit to this stretch and we were impressed with the surroundings, as it runs beneath Goodrich Castle. It really is a beautiful section of the Wye, but sadly the fishing was difficult once again. We spent all day in 2 established swims about two thirds of the way down the beat. A very small Chub and a 4lb Barbel were the only 2 bites all day. We'll be back again next year though.........can't wait!

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived to a perfect river, 10 deg and 2 foot on and dropping.
Fished 3 different swims and had fish out of all of them. Had 3 good Barbel, one going 9lb all on maggots. Plus 5 good chub plus a few chublets. Lost 2 Barbel on bedrock. Wonderful day, the big barbel came at 4pm just as the light was going.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Hard fishing in a beautiful setting. The fishing was tough due to recent rain fall which brought lots of debris down river. We managed to find the fish after lots of searching. We will be back.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Very difficult and disappointing day. The river rose all morning and was bringing down all sorts of debris and rubbish making feeder/leger fishing impossible with the amount of leaves branches etc collecting on the line and feeders. Tried all the usual baits, pellets, meat boils, maggots etc without any obvious bites.
Also spent some time trotting also without success.
I think conditions were spoilt mainly by the amount of debris coming downstream at all depths which made fishing virtually impossible on the day.

The river was low and clear and coming off the back of 3 frosts. Two barbel were caught by one angler on meat and the other blanked which is a shame as this beat has been very kind to us in the past.

2 Barbel