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Had another great day down the Wye. Conditions were challenging as the river level was low and the weather was very hot. All caught on hair rigged pellet.

1 Barbel, 33 Chub, 1 Other

River low and clear. Started fishing around 8am and netted a barbel around 5lb on my 2nd cast. A busy day then ensued with lots of knocks with the odd strikable bite.

Finished the day with 3 barbel, the biggest felt 10lb plus but I'd left my scales at home, and 17 chub, the biggest around 4lb. Still going strong at 3.30pm when i had to head home. All fish taken on luncheon meat on feeder in the wooded section.

A thoroughly enjoyable day.

3 Barbel, 17 Chub

SG , MH and SM make there annual pilgrimage to Fownhope 5 and boy did it not disappoint! , Probably the best days chub fishing we will ever experience . Perfect weather and good river conditions all set in stunning scenery.
SG finished with 34 chub best 6lb and 6 barbel fishing the 1st swim in the woods , MH finished with 56 chub and 3 eels fishing the first field , But best of all SM finished with an incredible 75 chub, best 6.4lb and 2 barbel, average size of the chub was around the 4lb mark making a conservative 300lb bag of fish !!. This came from the lucky stone peg and most of these fish were caught on the float using red pellets, which complimented the fishes natural diet of cherries from the trees above the river.
All in all a fantastic days fishing for all 3 of us , one which we will never forget thank you wye and Usk.

8 Barbel, 165 Chub, 3 Other

Halibut pellets on hair, barbel ground bait. We found that the ground bait attracted the chub and we caught the barbel at times when we didn’t use the ground bait for a while. We accidentally caught a small eel and also saw another one in the margins. Large fish were jumping throughout our two days on this incredible river.

3 Barbel, 23 Chub, 1 Other

Halibut pellets on hair, barbel ground bait. We found that the ground bait attracted the chub and we caught the barbel at times when we didn’t use the ground bait for a while

8 Barbel, 28 Chub

Caught all chub from the woods on meat.

32 Chub

The day did not look that promising if I'm honest with very bright sunshine from the off. Having read the reports from previous summer anglers, my heart was set on fishing in the wood, so down the path and through the garden and up the hill I went. The hill, whilst steep is really not that bad at all. It is a slightly longer walk than with some beats but this is an outdoor pursuit after all! Once in the wood, I started at about 9.30 in the swim one down from the lucky stone. My first cast was hit by a chub on the second it made contact with the water, and a similar pattern followed with pretty much every other cast! Luncheon meat outscored pellet in terms of how quickly they'd be on it, but the result was always chub. Nothing truly massive - 4lb 4oz was the biggest I weighed... however, I doubt that many of them were under 3lb either.

Once I'd caught 10 in that swim, I decided to move upstream a little to the lucky stone swim. It was snaggier here (I'd not lost a single hook or feeder in the previous swim) and the chub were not quite so voracious. However, they did continue to bite. Sometime around 12, a rather different bite occurred, pulling the rod right round and sure enough, a barbel was hooked. However, somewhat frustratingly the hook pulled out after I'd been playing the fish for a minute or two. Next cast, another barbel bite and again I played it for a bit but then got cut off on rocks. Next cast, barbel - hook pull! Finally, fourth time lucky - I got one in. The interesting thing here being that in an area that had been producing chub after chub, it suddenly turned to barbel after barbel. However, that was it. Next cast produced a chub. And the next one....

There was then a relative lull in proceedings, so I went back over the hill to do a little float fishing in the swim below the hut. Feeding mashed bread, flake on the hook, I took three decent chub in quick succession before the swim completely died on me. I half-heartedly threw a feeder out in the same pool, but with bright sunlight overhead I had a distinct feeling that you'd need to be on the river much later before things picked up again. England's bow in the world cup was calling, that ridiculous unfounded optimism that each new tournament brings... so I called it a day around 6 and headed back to the Green Man - a final tally of 21 decent chub and just the one barbel, that's not a bad day's fishing given the times that I chose to fish.

1 Barbel, 21 Chub

Lots of chub but we couldn't tempt any barbel, apart from a small one, from their usual haunts. Also worth noting that some chub were leaking milt from their vents so possibly still some spawning going on. Tried different sizes of pellet and caught on them all.

1 Barbel, 40 Chub

The river was down about 0.7 m from the previous day but a huge volume of water was still barrelling down. I started off in a swim that was exposed to the rising wind, and this and the current made fishing difficult (and quite uncomfortable). Eventually I moved into the woodland and found some relatively slack water and finished with a couple of chub. No sign of the barbel today.

2 Chub