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Stayed at the Green Man - great place. Had a fun day, only two fish but worth the wait.

2 Barbel

River water level good but clear. Rained all day making the swims at the top end of the beat to treacherous to fish. Fished the bend above the vanstone pool, tried various baits and methods which resulted in 2 bites and 2 lost fish to hook pulls. Our worst days fishing ever on the river.

River still falling slowly with some colour. Very mild and breezy. Started at midday, with barbel coming at intervals until about 17.00. All the fish on meat and, remarkably, all about the same size, around 6lbs (estimated). Swim died in the evening with only a couple of smallish chub and with rain setting in I decided to call time on a good day.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Come on then, where are they?!!. A very pleasant autumnal day on the river with resonable enough conditions but from 09:00 to 16:00, six swims, a wide bait repertoire, static and floating baits produced just a couple of knocks, finally at 16:00 two genuine bites resulting in a Chub of around 2lb. and a small but lively Barbel of around 5lb. then again absolutely dead until the last 35mins. which produced three good quality Chub, two over 4lbs. and one over 5lbs. and one small Barbel lost to a hook pull at the net, all taken on meat.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Absolutely brilliant day on a new beat for my son and I , we had 5 barbel up to 7 lb and 7 chub up to an amazing 5 lb 9 oz what a day conditions were perfect ???? river up a bit with a slight colour and very calm , the trees still seam to have there leaves so no rubbish on our line , most of the fish were on plain luncheon meat with a running ledger and the others were on pellet and feeder ! The wildlife was amazing plenty of kingfishers , deer and even pike chasing fish in the shallows , thanks for a proper red letter day .

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

fish was 2.77lb in lovely condition and hooked on a size 12 barbles hook with 2 14mm pellets below a cage feeder of 20z, the river was runnig fast, i missed a few bites, but a lovely day.

1 Chub

Lovely days fishing on a new stretch for us, dawn and dusk produced the majority of the fish. Biggest barbel went just over 8lbs.

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 x 9lb barbel caught, 3 lost to hook pulls. Lots of Kingfishers though.....

1 Barbel

Top swims hard fished lost one possible barbel (or maybe it was a big gudgeon )

2 Barbel

A very frustrating day. Conditions looked good on arrival - good colour in the water and good flow. Perhaps a bit cold but looked ok. Started in the top section and fished 4 swims which were accessible for the first 3 hours. Not a bite. Ventured down the beat to one swim that was just about accessible for approximately 1 hour. No bites. Returned to the top of the beat for the last few hours and tried two other swims - again nothing. Lots of snags mid river - lost 5 feeders and two bombs. Tried pellet and feeder as well as meat as well as larger paste wrapped pellet. Although the top end of the beat looks heavily fished, it is well maintained and access is very good. It was just one of those days which sticks with you for all the wrong reasons! On the way back I was thinking what could have gone worse and decided the one thing left was an involuntary dunk in the Wye, which thankfully didn't happen.