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Enjoyable day with fish caught on a mix of float and feeder.

4 Barbel, 17 Chub

2 Barbel

Fished from mid morning to 6.15 as I was under orders to be back at the hotel in time for dinner.
Had barbel first at 5lb 6oz and lost another soon after that got snagged in my swim. A 3rd barbel was hooked before my line mysteriously parted , possibly due to damage from earlier snag which I hadn’t detected. The bright sun now was at its fiercest and bites came to a halt , moved to another swim that was partly shaded and had 7 chub , best 4lb 2oz. Enjoyable, but I felt I should’ve done better.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Only 3 fishing. Great day with river dropping but still like chocolate.
11 Chub to 6lb 6oz and 14 Barbel to 11lb 10oz
Variety of baits - meat, pellet and caster being the main ones.

14 Barbel, 11 Chub

The river is dropping quickly but remains high, making it tough to hold bottom. We mainly fished with meat and caught a few eels as well. Our spot was just downstream of the water treatment site.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

River in better condition today with most of the debris restricting itself to the far bank flow. 3 of the barbel came within a 1 hour period around mid day.

5 Barbel

Directions were easy to follow and found the river rising and so choice of swims was limited. However we found a suitable area where 2 of us could fish. Ended up with Barbel to just over 8lb. A superb days fishing.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Rising water, legered meat, red pellets and sweetcorn.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Day 3 of our Wyefest 25, which included 2 non WUF waters.

River conditions were good with the gauge at RoW being about 1m and the river falling. The weather was much as forecast- grey with some showers, but perfectly acceptable.

The directions to the fishery were OK but the W3W location would have been better on the gate to the field and the sign being fixed to the fence. We elected to drive to the downstream car park and had a recce but had difficulty identifying the downstream end of the fishery. A sign would have helped.

We fished the picturesque swim immediately by the downstream car park and were on fish straight away. The best barbel being 9.5Lbs and a chub which must have been very close to 5Lbs.The hot bite only lasted an hour or so but a few more fish were picked up until mid afternoon , when we called it a day.

Another of the party went into our swim for the remainder of the day and was rewarded with a very good 8Lb 3oz barbel.

Most successful bait - Spam, spam , spam. Mix of swimfeeder and straight lead .

4 Barbel, 4 Chub