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Really Nice strech of the river, I think we must have caught it on a bad day, bright and sunny with the river a bit low and clear for the barbel, who knows. After a good start with an early 3lb chubb and an 8lb Barbel we struggled throughout the day, fished most of the pegs on the top half of the beat despite a canoe competition held on Carey Islands. Found a few fish in the evening to end up a total of with six quality fish between 7.5lb and 8.5lb. All fish fell to halibut pellet on the feeder with Hemp and Pellet for feed. Parking at the top of the beat is in a ploughed field! With a long walk down through the woods to the river, really tough on the way back up at the end of the day, travel as light as you can. Another Great day on the Wye, pristine fish and countryside, many thanks.
In my opinion this beat does not support four anglers per day, especially when L.Ballingham only allow 2 rods per day.

Caught 3 brown trout up to 11 inches. 20 grayling including x2 16 inches and x1 17 inches. Caught mainly on dries, CDC Quill and PTN. A group of canoeists passed through who, although polite, seemed unaware of the water height restrictions in place.

I had the first coloured fish of the year from Wyebank, about 12lb on an allys shrimp size 10 double at the bottom end of the Wyebank Run, adjacent to the willows on the far bank at 1915 hrs. Saw a couple of fish rise in the Willow Run on Courtfield but couldn't tempt them.

No fish caught at all!! Very disappointing. Used flies, worms and bread!

We walked the stretch and were a little disappointed that the access to the river on the upstream part of the beat was so poor. We counted a maximum number of swims on the stretch at about 6 (including the croy at the very top).
One rod (Paul) fished above the stream that enters at the top of the first field, and i made a fishing spot on a bit of flatish bank halfway up the first field. Fishing was poor during daylight hours and we had no fish to show for our efforts. Paul moved 150 yards below me and once the light started to fade the fish really started to feed for both of us. Between about 5pm and 7-15pm we both caught some lovely conditioned barbel - smallest 6-0 biggest 8-12 total fish caught to 2 rods was 11 barbel, all caught on pellet. We left having enjoyed our day and both felt that the stretch looked like it might produce a big fish

Fished the peg almost opposite the fishermans hut on the crib. It looked fantastic but was very clear and the level appeared to be below normal as the bay on the opposite bank ( point of the small island ) was only a few inches deep. Sat for probably 4 hours without a bite using every method and bait I had with me includung Halibut, elips, pellets, boilies, luncheon meat in all sizes..feeding hemp and barbel bomb (hinders) through a feeder. Was really disappointed so decided to move downstream to a peg on a concrete and stone ledge under a big tree having sat there for another 2 hours I eventually had 2 barbel about 5lb on 8mm pellets.. all in all a disappointing days fishing but loved the location and views. My two mates managed to catch 4 chub and 2 barbel between them. One of the barbel was over 8lb but again not a very impressive day considering all 3 of us are experienced Barbel anglers. We put it down to the condition of the river level. But will be back to give it another go.

Once again river still very low and clear, another hot, bright day, again making fishing difficult. We fished the upper swims, eventually finding some fish in the 'tree' swim. We lost a couple and landed 1 barbel, about 6lbs and 1 chubb, lots of streamer weed making it very snaggy.

This was our last day on the fabulous river Wye before the journey south to Jersey. Again we were met by another bright and sunny day with clear water which made it a very pleasent day. A total of 4 barbel and a couple of chub landed from a late start and early finish.
Thank you for allowing us access to these wonderful stretches of this great river.

Three of us fishing using one fly rod each for two days on a quest to catch grayling at Cefnllysgwynne.
Lovely river with a mixture of gravel runs, deep pools, and rapids but the fishing was not easy which made it all the more pleasureable when we caught. Between the three of us we managed four grayling and three small brown trout on a mixture of flies and these seemed to come mostly in the deeper areas on the lower stretches on the beat which was two or three miles long. We all caught at least one grayling each so got what we came for and enjoyed the challenge.

A cooler and overcast day with hopes high for a better result than on Monday. Although the fish weren't jumping on the hook, we did find the fish in the deeper water again. 8 Barbel caught between us and 3 chub - best barbel at 7.5lb all on either meat or pellet.