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River in poor condition.

Fishing is still very good despite the river looking about the lowest I have ever seen it.
Fishing in the wooded section produced some excellent barbel to 9lbs 10oz which is a pb off the river Wye. The other fish were between 6 to 8lbs 11oz which is a higher average size than most of the other beats.
Having said that there was a 14" barbel that shows there are plenty of different year classes in the river.
This really is an excellent fishery that continues to deliver great fishing. Well done Don and WUF.

10 Barbel, 20 Chub

A pretty lean day. Caught one barbel 5-7lbs in the morning, second cast, then nothing. By 5pm a glass of wine on the patio was beckoning.

1 Barbel

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

5th visit to this beat and my 1st blank. The river was very low and the weather very sunny and hot. We fished from 12 noon until dusk with very few bites. I was very surprised how little activity we had. I assume the fish are shoaled up somewhere. We tried all baits and sizes and worked back and forth across the river. We tried 5-6 different swims up and down the length.
This is a lovely part of the river. We didn’t have too many issues on snags and the canoes, while many in number are polite and do use the right hand side of the river meaning you can fish up to half way out. It is however lovely and peaceful once they stop coming down.
We will be back despite the difficult day maybe after a bit of rain which I think is needed.

Very hard going. Fished from before dawn right through to dusk for 4 chub to 3.5lb and a couple of eels between us. The water was very warm and carrying a heavy algal bloom. Coloured salmon showed regularly throughout the day.
The canoe traffic was nowhere near as bad as expected although the appearance of an inflatable boat with outboard engine was an unwelcome twist on the usual circus.

4 Chub, 2 Other

2nd day on Courtfield, we caught 7 barbel to 10lb 2oz and 12 chub to over 4lb using feeder/pellet tactics.

7 Barbel, 12 Chub

I had a good afternoon & evening at wooded end of fishery
with 6 barbel ( best 10.2lbs) & 5 chub (best 5.4lbs), all on pellet and groundbait feeder. George fished first swim in Legg
Meadow for 2 barbel and 5 chub. Must thank Don for his help & advice.

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

Very sunny and hot conditions and river low but with a tinge of colour. It was the first time we have fished this stretch and so took awhile to decide where to fish. As expected fishing was hard and bites came spasmodically throughout the day to pellet feeder. 5 Barbel to 9lbs and 5 small chub.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

13 barbel caught to 10lb 2oz and 5 chub to 5lb 7oz using feeder/pellet tactics.

13 Barbel, 5 Chub