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Small trout on gold head hares ear all safely returned

4 Trout

First visit to Wyebank for a couple of years, it didn’t dissapoint, I took my nephew for his first ever visit to the Wye, he had 3 chub & 1 barbel on the feeder, but, topped it off with a barbel on the float, amazing , it took me 2 seasons to do that! All my fish caught trotting, barbel ranging from 3- 9lb +, Chub to 4lb, I’ll be back for another visit soon.

9 Barbel, 28 Chub

1 Trout

Very promising conditions. Nice pace, bit of colour, possibly a little low. Cloudy most of day, with a few sunny intervals.
First fish came after about an hour, and one missed bite. Smashed rod off rest, could only have been a Barbel. Good fight. Fish in superb condition, probably just under 7lb.
Second fish about a hour later. Smaller, but still quite a fight. Probably around 3lb mark. Again, in lovely condition.
Both fish fell to ledgered Halibut pellet.
Angler on beach on opposite bank was very successful, taking lots of Chub on trotted bait, and then ledgering. He had one good Barbel.
Pleased, because recent reports seemed to suggest Barbel were proving very elusive here. Fair to say, they're present now.
Lovely stretch. Will return before Autumn.

2 Barbel

Lovely stretch of water. Pleased to land 3lb Barbel (feeder and Halibut pellet) fought like a tiger. Other anglers on opposite bank catching plenty of Chub. Will definitely return. Rather confused by access further upstream from Fisherman's Hut field. Bank seemed very overgrown, and no obvious path to follow. Does map need updating?

1 Barbel

A red letter day! Not much happening late morning, although there were a few trout taking midges in slack water - caught a few of those by scaling right back to a size 22 midge pattern. Then a trickle of small mayflies started hatching and continued through the afternoon, whick kept the trout interested for the rest of the day - all caught off the top. Superb fishing, I was just thinking towards the the last cast of the day that the only thing it lacked was a big one (athough most fish beforehand were decent, in the 11-16" category) - when fittingly an 18"er turned up (and nearly made it under some willows, but today was obviously my day)! Fantastic fishing, thanks again!

18 Trout

no fish

Day 1 of 2. Far end of the fishery in the shallow water. Overcast with a bit of drizzle and hardly any wind which was perfect for fishing. There was also quite a bit of rain the previous day adding some extra flow which helped spark the Barbel into feeding. We had around 30 Chub between three anglers, 0.5lb - 2.5lb on mainly meat and corn and some on pellet and 8 Barbel 5lb - 9.5lb on mainly pellet.

8 Barbel, 30 Chub

2 Trout

3 Trout