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11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Cracking morning 1st rod 1st cast barbel 9lb 8, third cast another good barbel 9lb 10, ended up with 5 barbel and 5 chub went quite in the afternoon.
2nd rod nothing in the morning and then started catching in the afternoon 4 lovely barbel, all fish in great condition all caught in the faster water.

9 Barbel, 5 Chub

Persistent rain/drizzle all day. Found a swim where you could get a landing net down to waters edge, half way along. Tried anything/everything I had but couldn't buy a bite. Swims were well manicured and easy to access.

Fished 4-8pm in the faster deeper section. x3 chub on float with luncheon meat and x1 chub on ledger with cheese, all around 3- 4lb. River at normal level with some rain showers.

4 Chub

Enough good looking swims with decent flow etc. we tried six different swims but a tough day.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Sunny intervals, coolish, a nice breeze and a 19 degree water temperature.
Slightly hampered on swim selection as there were 3 guys on the the opposite syndicate stretch casting across with two rods each. What I view to be the two most likely at this time of year were free but we also tried 3 new swims but with no bites. One barbel from each swim, one came midday (5lb) and the other one (6lb) 5 seconds after having counted down from 10 on the last cast of the day with my last PVA bag! That would have been my first Wye blank before December so a relief and reward for pushing to the end. A lovely peaceful beat but hard today.

2 Barbel

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2 Barbel, 5 Chub

The day started off well with 4 barbel and a chub in the first 2 hours,but then 2 anglers turned up on the far bank, one of them proceeded to wade out 2/3 the way across 40 meters downstream not a problem. But his ignorant selfish mate had other ideas setting up 15 meters up stream of where i was fishing, then not happy with that proceeded to move 15 meters downstream of me setting up his platform 2/3 of the way across, so probably no more than 5 meters from the fish i had been catching. At this point a polite conversation was had about etiquette and boundaries but to no avail.
The fish in this section get a lot of attention and that was enough to stop any fish being caught for the remainder of the day, not a touch in 8 hours!
Can WUF reach a compromise/ruling with the opposite fishery to avoid this happening?
TW 4 barbel
RL 4 barbel 1 chub

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

The day was overcast and warm, seemingly perfect. Caught one chub from the top end and other half way down. Lost a couple in the fast water one of which I’m sure was a barbel so disappointed about that.
Most disappointing though is the description of the beat. I could find no swim in the entire length of the beat that had gravel at the bank permitting wading even in low water. On the other side of the river there are a couple of lovely wading spots giving great access to the faster water and gullies. Come on WUF am I missing something or do you need to update the beat description?!

2 Chub