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We caught 10 Barbel to 8lb 3oz & 24 Chub to 5lb 9oz.

10 Barbel, 24 Chub

Weather overcast and mild, and surprisingly good flow and colour, with a 14 degree water temp. However with bright skies in the afternoon we needed to do our best work in the morning. Barbel from 3 to 9.06 caught mostly on bomb and pellet, chub to 4.08 on gb feeder meat or pellet. Sounds like a brill day for two anglers? Problem was I had all the chub (and the eel) and he had all the barbel! With this being our first day on the beat we picked two pairs of swims in the second half of the beat and fished one area each so we could move to where the fish were coming from. By the time I'd fished two areas and could only catch snags and moved above Steve, he had stopped catching barbel and had one in the afternoon during which time I had 6 chub (moral victory? He had one more after I left so a great day for him and I took a right barbel gubbin' but a decent day nevertheless.

Levered cheese and garlic pellet

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Good to see they have properly layered and compacted the access road down to the river. Odds of getting stuck largely reduced!!
This is a lovely beat improved if you’re able to drive its length.
Fish came throughout the day from 2 swims. Most fish taken on meat and a few on dumbbell or boilie with GB feeder. Barbel to 9lb 1oz and chub to 5lb. Two good barbel lost.
Rope access would be of benefit to some in the wetter months.

8 Barbel, 16 Chub

As previous report. Two anglers fished

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel, 16 Chub

River 1.2m at Lydbrook and coloured. Total fish is between two of us and roughly split evenly. Fish came to various hard baits and most came during early afternoon in bright sunshine, the evening saw the bites tail off completely. Two of the Barbel on flaotfished 8mm cubes of meat which was a first combined with a PB Wye chub (over 5lb) and a PB Barbel (10lb 1oz) made this another cracking day. Cant wait to get back on this stretch.

7 Barbel, 16 Chub

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

used luncheon meat on size 10 hook - float fishing.
River slightly higher than Summer lows due to recent rain, river coloured for same reason.
Bright and sunny throughout the day.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub