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Great day. Only small but good fun

49 Barbel, 23 Chub

30 Barbel, 10 Chub

Another great day on the Wye at Wyebank . Arrived at 6.30 and caught from the start on ledgered hinders elips pellets . Catch rate dropped dramatically when influx of coloured water came from 9.30 till 12.30 . We left at 2.30 after using all our groundbait . Raining most of the day . Back next year .

44 Barbel, 6 Chub

5 Barbel

5 Barbel

6 Barbel

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

The main objective of this trip was to get my 10 year old son his first barbel. Arriving around 6pm, Wyebank certainly didn't disappoint in that respect, the famous bottom pool providing a strong bite on the first cast (missed), then another on the second that turned out to be a 4lb barbel, job done! What followed was incredible action, in the space of approx. 3 hours we had 14 barbel, half of those were "mini" barbel, probably just under a pound but the others were all regular shoal size between 4 and 6 pounds. No monsters here, but quality was very much surpassed by quantity - which suits a ten year old attention span much better. I think it's probably the case that in our entire session, we only had two casts where we didn't get a proper bite. Which isn't to say all those bites turned in to fish, but even so - remarkable fishing in anyone's book! We packed up at about 9.30 as I didn't fancy negotiating the path back from the swim in darkness. Early tomorrow we would be heading to Courtfield, where I had suggested to junior that what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in size... time would tell.

My sincerest thanks to WUF, to Don (the beat owner) and also to my friend Rob who'd given me the low down on the Wyebank bottom pool when he was fishing it the previous Monday whilst I was on Courtfield, check RM's catch report for the 19 June on Wyebank and Courtfield

14 Barbel

River very low, fish caught all day long to various baits and methods .

20 Barbel, 10 Chub

Our first visit to this beat. The fish were cought on pellet feeder with Mainline 10 mm boilies on the hook and rolling meat. Barbel to 7lb and chub to 4lb with 1 eel. Had some helpful advice from Don the owner and we all had a enjoyable days fishing. Will book this spot again.

23 Barbel, 27 Chub, 1 Other