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Big and rising coloured river, tough going.

Barbel fell to maggots, chub on cheese and two eels on meat.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

River had dropped a good 12 inches overnight and continued to do so during the day. Water was a lot clearer from previous day. Tried for pike early doors, but nothing. Tried a number of different baits during the day but only cheese paste and bread flake caught in various swims we tried along the stretch. Again, all fish between 3 and 6lb. Lovely fish, lovely spot. Access good with a good number of swims along the entire stretch. Even though it's on the outside of a bend there are a good number of slack areas to fish when the river is up. I think it was about a metre up on normal 'winter' levels. First time either of us had fished the Wye so very happy some basic chub techniques landed us some quality fish.
Found an old hook in the mouth of one of the chub, even though it was barbless, so I guess it highlights the importance of using appropriate tackle for the size of fish. We used 7lb hooklength and had no problem getting positive bites even with good water clarity.

6 Chub

Cold weather with raised and coloured water level. All fish taken from one swim on cheese paste. Fish between 4 and 6lb.

5 Chub

5 Chub

One dace caught from midflow

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

3 Barbel

Frosty morning followed by bright sunshine, not ideal fishing conditions. River level up by about 1.5mtr . Bites were few and far between with all the fish caught on meat with hardly a knock on pellets. Biggest Chub exactly 6lb , a new PB so happy with that. A pleasant days fishing before lockdown.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Plenty of large tree trucks floated past us today!! Fishing was tough going & we stuck to feeder fighting; we managed 3 barbel, a chub & 1 eel (!!)

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

The river was dropping nicely when we arrived at 6.30am and after preparing a few swims, were into barbel almost straight away including a PB 9 1/4lb beautiful fish. From around midday the river started rising and made the sport much harder in the afternoon however several more barbel and a chub landed all on meat close in.

Stunning stretch to spend a day even if the fishing was impacted by the rising river in the afternoon. 5-6oz feeders close in were the order of the day in the increased flow and water coming through.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

We decided to brave the horrendous weather and headed out in torrential rain and wind. My accomplice and I tried two up stream swims for an hour with usual feeder tactics. The water was rising and our 1.75lb TC rods were unable to withstand the flow. I was considering going to get a carp rod from the van when the bailiff arrived who was a very helpful and after short chat said we would be better off at the end of the beat in the rock pool as the water would be calmer. Not one to ignore the bailiffs advice we set off to the end of the beat to the rock pool. The rain was still hammering it down and the banks were a extremely slippery and muddy. I baited up with X 5 ground bait and boilie packed feeders and was instantly awarded with a 4lb chub. After thei the barbel moved in and the action was pretty much non -stop until we packed up at 17.00 I had barbel of 8lb,8lb9oz, 6lb and 4lb my mate had an 8lb and a 6lb. All on boilie and ground bait. Beautiful place especially the autumnal woods behind. Will defiantly return. Easy parking if that’s your thing and beautiful fish.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub