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A really well-maintained beat - pegs are accessible without spoiling the feeling of wilderness.
Good fishing - mainly in the upper field in the deeper nearside gulley. Definitely, need a long-handled net !!

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time to this venue. I struggled to locate the fish to be honest. Arrived about 3pm and walked up and down the stretch. Very hot day. Baited a few swims and fished them all for next 3 hours without a knock. I settled into swim near tree line around 7:30 and had one lovely barbel at 8lb and another under 5lb on oozing pellets. Huge eel too. River looked good, bit colour and not so low. Maybe an off day or I’m doing something wrong. It’s a learning curve at new venues as always. Back in couple weeks to try again. Nice countryside and really lovely venue. The M50 being shut on way home was bit tough going.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Hot blue skies river good condition Three chub 3lb plus Barbel 5lb Three eels to 2lb

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 3 Other

Seemed like a perfect day - cloud cover, about 2ft 8 inches on the river in total and still coloured after the floods.
Fished all swims on the stretch tried the usual pellet - all types, meat, and corn.
Not one single tap all day between us!!!!!!!!!!!
No fish caught!!!!!!!!!??????????????

very heavy rain in morning brought river up 8 inches or so ,better day largest was 10 lb 2 ,.very happy angler ,

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

hard going river up looked good,but beautiful,

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

Another tough day, heavy rain didn’t help. One barbel and 1 chub. Barbel was 7.8lb which was a new PB for myself. Plenty of interest on pellets but very few hook ups, perhaps a change of tactics were required but rain was prohibitive. 1st two swims to the left of the tree line seemed the most active.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

One of our favourite beats, we were excited on arrival to find seemingly perfect conditions for coarse fishing, a bit of colour and the levels around 2 foot up on normal summer levels. One angler fished by the tree line whilst another set up some way downstream. Starting around 8am both were in to fish straight away, in fact the rod downstream had consecutive bites on the first five or six casts. This early flurry of action dried up sometime around 10.30 once the sun really got on the water... and unfortunately as the day got brighter so the fishing got worse. Both rods suffered a lot of very fast tap bites (probably chub) before the downstream rod decided on a move to a peg near the tree line and added a further barbel and a chub. Sometime around 7, that same angler hit a tentative bite and had an epic battle with the biggest barbel of the day (10lb) only to find he'd foul hooked it in the pelvic fin (so that one doesn't count, but it's certainly good to know they're there!). By then it was time to make an exit, or risk missing dinner at our local pub. In hindsight, we might have been better served to make a really early start and then leave it from lunchtime to about 5pm, because really not very much happened then. However, it was still a beautiful day out in very lovely surroundings. We will be back (watch out Mr Ten Pounder.....)

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

A very pleasant days fishing at How Caple, river was up but looked great, nice bit of colour. No fish early on so moved pegs and ended the day with three barbel , 7lb 9oz, 8lb 1oz, 5lb 7oz all in great condition. How Caple looked terrific, thanks to Andy the Gamekeeper who has done a fine job cutting back the growth with better access to the pegs.
Thank you Wye & Usk

3 Barbel