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Started in the wooded area early morning, had 1 Barbel plus 2 Chub moved to the meadow mid day, had 1 Barbel plus 1 Chub. River rose around 8 inches thoughout the day with a nice bit of colour. All fish caught on pellet and feeder.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

I had a reasonably fresh 14 pounder on fly yesterday evening which had probably come up with the sudden rise, caught from the Willow Run Courtfield. The river rose to about 6" at Wyebank on Tuesday and dropped back to summer level by lunchtime Thursday. Only the odd fish seen here this last week, really expected to see some yesterday evening but nothing showing.

1 Salmon

A great day catching 15 barbel including two 9s and one 10 pounder from swim 2 top end of Legg meadow.

15 Barbel

2nd day on this beat. Still failed to find any Barbel on the upper beat (Meadow). A few Chub just to liven things up taken on pellet or boilie. 5 Barbel from lower part of beat and a couple of Chub. Late spawning may have spoiled our sport as a couple of Barbel caught showed signs of having just spawned.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

River very low and weather not very kind. Could not locate any Barbel in the Meadow beat only a few Chub. One of the rods did locate 6 Barbel to 7lb just above the Boat pool lower down but lost a lot of terminal gear in doing so.
A great beat having an off day.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

J had 6 barbel on Saturday to 10lbs 14oz and 6 chub to 5lbs. Swim 13 and 4 good barbel on Sunday leaving mid afternoon. I thoroughly enjoyed the weekend fishing thank you.

10 Barbel, 6 Chub

Only 1 barbel caught from the Courtfield stretch early on at the downstream end of the beat. The water was sluggish and confidence low. After a coversation with Don we moved to the Wyebank strech further downstream where the water was faster. We had 11 Barbel to 9lb. A fantastic day. When the water is low fish the faster water! Definitely worth getting there for dawn and fishing until dusk. There's times for naps during the quiter period in the afternoon! Don is a fantastically helpful gentleman. All fish fell to groundbait feeder and pellet.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

I started in the Rocks area of the wooded section and landed a 3lb Chub within minutes. However no further bites were forthcoming and I moved up to Wood Crib where I took a further Chub. I changed to trotting sweetcorn and despite the attentions of the hoards of duckings I managed a nice Chub of 2lb 14ozs which gave a good account of itself on light float tackle. Don, the fishery owner arrived and advised me that some good barbel had been caught in a swim in Legg Meadow the previous day. Taking his advice, I moved and immediatly had a few knocks which turned out to be Chub and I landed one of 3lb 14ozs. Then at 3pm I had a better bite which powered off on an unmistakable barbel run. After a good battle I landed the barbel which weighed in at 9lb 3ozs. What a great end to a rather slow day, thanks Don. Oh, I almost forgot the eel.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Booked Courtfield because of the fantastic information on the beat via both the Lower Wye Fishery website and the Facebook page.
My father and I booked up for 3 days from the 19th to the 21st in search of my first barbel. 30 barbel later to the both of us and I'm more than happy! 19 of those on the last day when we struggled to keep up wth the bites! And thats not forgetting the fantastic chub sport too! All fish came from the wooded section of the beat.
Biggest barbel was 10lb 7oz which was the only double (unfortunately to the old man). Chub were caught to just under 5lb with the vast majority being around the 3-4lb mark.
Many thanks to the WUF and Don for a fantastic trip.

30 Barbel, 17 Chub

Arrived at around 7am and fished the wooded section. Caught a chub and a barbel (around 5lb) by 9:30am and then it went dead. Brother in law caught a chub mid afternoon and the father in law was a victim of eels.
It was a bit too hot to fish and to be honest the canoes are getting worse. Whilst I understand the business reasoning around making hay when the sun shines, the owners of the canoe rental firms should have more respect for other river users.
I lost tackle due to people going straight through the lines, endless noise and general messing around. Don't get me wrong I'm not a kill joy but when someone wants to get in the river to swin downstream in a swim you are fishing it's not really on.
Need to get this under control, it's a shame because it's a great place to fish, I just don't need the hastle when I take the day off to fish, to put up with this.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other