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In the first 15 minutes of first light, I had a dead bait very large mackerel and had a big hit on my road with a long run and pulled the hook - gutted!

Fished this beat end of last week on Sunday, water level down a foot and a half and had fined down since then, but the water temperature had dropped from 57 deg to 48 deg also. Took a friend who has never fished for barbel. We managed 2 at 7lb and 4lb both to my rod. Both on pellet and small PVA bags of mixed sizes of pellets. Hard fishing but enjoyable, thanks to Don fishery owner with some advise on the day.

River was very high and fast. Eventually found 2 swims which were very difficult to fish but only real options after a 3 hour journey. Fished all day and in to darkness as there is always a chance on the Wye but no fish to report sadly.

Must agree with others, the walk back to the top parking is a killer to say the least, especially after a long wet muddy blank. That's fishing though and we will be back next year for sure.

River high but Legg Meadow fishable on inside line. Caught a big eel estimated 4lb+ on meat and a barbel just under 9lb on pellet. One other barbel lost. Probably should have tried a few more swims.

1 Barbel, 1 Other

River was high, fast and coloured but just about fishable. No fish landed, but one hooked and lost towards the end of the day. This is a lovely beat with lots of wildlife - that and the anticipation of an eternal optimist made it a very enjoyable day.

Got on bank around 12-30, river still high but the muddy colour had eased and you could see vegetation 2ft down. Chose first swim over bridge, pellet/feeder fishing on a hair rig was a real pain to get back, because the flow pushed feeder and hook deep into bank side snags!! Opted for straight lead (4oz) and a paste of ground Elips pellets and a binding agent.

I used a big heavy bait dropper to put in regular small numbers of 10mm pellets, nothing for the first 4hrs !!!
then 2 reasonable Barbel all in the last hour. Quite happy with that bearing in mind it was very cold last night and the barometer was well over 1012. Think I will give the maggot a go next time, may induce a few silver fish to feed ?

2 Barbel

1 Trout

Very difficult conditions indeed. Only 1 fish, 10lb plus.

1 Barbel

River was in full flood, so fishing difficult. 4 chub were taken to 4lb. 5oz feeders were needed to hold bottom & only achievable in selected spots.
Could of been good on a different day, but that's fishing ! Will be back.

Weather - Fine and dry in morning, rain during afternoon.
Although varying methods of fishing tried, once again the fish (all approx 2+lb) were caught using ledger and inflated worm.
During discussion with wardens it appears to have generally been a poor days fishing.

5 Trout