Feedback & Reports

5 Barbel

Again very wet & muddy but ended up being a great day , got first barbel within 30 mins then feeding throughout the day, used pellet & red maggot, best was 9lb 7oz . Banks did get very slippy ! Interesting morning with pheasants landing in the river from a shooting party behind us they thankfully moved on. Very happy day.

8 Barbel

Very wet ( muddy ) challenging day- couldn't get to the parking areas without a 4 x 4 ! wading through 6-8" of mud through the farmyard. Eventually fished a few hours at the top end, two nice barbel, lost two others & my companion lost one at the net.

2 Barbel

Two nice Barbel, one a double.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Tough day. Roved around to try and find the fish. No bites all day but as soon as the sun went down the rod went round. Just over 7lb.

1 Barbel

A wonderful days sport for two. 10 hard scrapping barbel from 5-9lb.
A full and very descriptive blog on the day available here:

https://timsriparianramblings.blogspot.com/2018/11/somewhere-under-rainbow.html?m=1

10 Barbel

Nothing caught

A return to the first Wye beat we ever fished - 10 years ago. Still a nice beat, glad we went, but the barbel weren’t playing. No sign of them at all. When we arrived there was an otter fishing at the top end - in broad daylight at 11am. Took very little notice of us. Despite that, the salmon were very active and the chub were feeding sporadically. Again, my skilled pal managed 5 chub - all on meat.
The weather was lovely and there was a spectacular sunset followed by a huge full moon rising .
That’ll be it for us this year, I think.

5 Chub