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Another cracking day on the Wye with river and weather both in fine form. First time on this beat so I fished all bar 2 of the 11/12 swims along this beat whilst my fishing partner stayed put in one. Caught barbel out of 5 different swims on 4 different baits and strangely only had one chub, although its was a good fish at 4lbs 12oz.
Ended up with 11 barbel between us up to 9-10lbs. My mate also had fun with the dace (and bleak!).

Wonderfully beautiful day, 14 barbel 3 chub thanks

Another amazing day on the Wye, lovely beat! 12 barbel caught and my last fish was an elusive Wye double and my new personal best at 10lb 4oz. This was to be my last day of this stint on the Wye and out of my 4 days fishing I landed 37 barbel in total and 4 chub. A truly amazing place and can't wait to return. Thanks again WUF for allowing this great fishing possible!

A very diffcult day in attrocious conditions with rain,hail,thunderstorms and gusting winds making the fishing testing,so not a day for roving.We fished the "comfortable" middle swims and shared a catch of 10 barbel to 8lbs and 1 chub.

First time on this beat and what a beat! The weather was looking good which in itself is unusual this year. The river was in perfect condition with a good flow and plenty of colour. I had a brief walk up from the lower end to the tree line and decided that I would have a roaming day. I picked my first swim and had a 6lbs 3oz Barbel within the first 10 minutes. I don't know what they have been feeding on but wow they can pull, took me over 10 minutes to get the fish into the net! This was followed shortly by another Barbel, and another and another. My roaming idea had gone out the window now and I settled into the swim. The fish kept coming, apart from a gap between 11am – 2pm when it went quite quiet, I am guessing the summer sun had a part to play here. I was kept entertained watching a group of 30+ swans moving up and down the river, they kept me company all day. From 2pm things picked up again until 7pm when the river was starting to rise quiet quickly. I finished the day with 16 Barbel and a very welcome Chub. I couldn’t believe the pulling power of the Barbel in the river, the fish in this stretch have to be some of the toughest fighting fish I’ve come across. They all fell to running ledger and pellet bait. Of course no report is complete without a "one that got away" story. My biggest fish today was a lovely 8lbs specimen, I did strike into what I can only guess as being one of the Wye monsters. It stripped a good 50 yards of line from the reel in its first slow powerful run. When I did manage to stop it I can only describe it as trying to pull a Thames barge! Annoyingly fish bounced the hook after about 5 minutes into the battle in which time I had made zero line on it. Shame as I would have liked to have seen what I had hooked, but it’s a dam good reason to go back! On the very last cast of the day I even connected with one of the famous large Wye Pike. Ok it hit my swimfeeder as I was reeling in so was only one for a couple of minutes but it managed a bit of tail-walking in that time before it released the swimfeeder.
All in all a fantastic day, the place is just amazing, quiet with lots of wildlife to watch when the fishing is slow. The only piece of advice is the car parking place on the road near the field parking is only any good if you have a 4WD type car as any normal car will bottom out. The bottom car park is a better bet and with some careful parking should be room for a couple of cars.
Excellent beat, I look forward to visiting again very soon!

First time for me on this beat therefore spent more time walking than fishing to begin with. First swim was running a bit too fast for comfort and I quickly moved to a swim just downstream of the tree line which offered the luxury of steps and a nice flat area to sit and huddle under a brolly when the rain set in. The bonus was that I had a 7lb Barbel on the bank within 15 minutes. The rain and wind duly arrived but despite this I finished with 7 barbel with two over 7lbs and a small chub, all on pellets.
The weather conditions did not encourage much moving between swims but from what I saw there were at least half a dozen good swims cut out with steps and posts and I look forward to returning to try some of them out in better conditions.
I was also grateful for the relatively snag free river bed in this swim which was a welcome change.

Nice section 1 chub & 8 barbel. On meat, bread & pellet.
Field only good for 4 x 4 but parking at bottom of section is fine. First swims fished best.

This is a great stretch of river and had a really enjoyable morning Session with all 4 of us catching 2 Barbel, one of which was close to double figures. Once we had walked down to the river we turned left at first but halfway down the track the nettles and undergrowth stopped us from getting to the end of the stretch. These were above head height in places I would strongly advise good heavy duty clothing is worn if you want to attempt to get past this. All in all another beautiful stretch of The River Wye. Would Fish the stretch again.

A lovely day out on a beautiful length of river. Middle section very overgrown but more than enough swims to choose from. Banks are very slippery so take care, managed quite a few fish to around 8lbs. Great day out.

24 Barbel on pellet. Caught fish from several swim.