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Yet another lovely day on the Wye, started in the salmon hut swim and caught 3 chub between 7am and 11am, biggest 3lb. Moved into the lucky stone swim and steadily caught 12 more chub and 3 barbel. Most chub 3 1/2 lb plus with biggest at 4lb 14oz and 2 barbel at 6lb and biggest at 8lb. Also lost 5 fish to mix of hook pulls and snags, one feeling like nice barbel.
Started on boilies and pellets but caught most fish on flavoured corn tipped with rubber bait on hair rig.
Kingfishers were prevalent and I will be back very soon.

3 Barbel, 15 Chub

Excellent days fishing . despite arriving late ( 1pm) I was into the chub immediately from the swim in front of the hut . 4 casts produced 4 chub , probably around the 3 lb mark . i caught chub steadily for the next couple of hours with the occasional smallish barbel ( 6-7 lb ) . then there was a lull of about an hour from 1500 - 16.30 when it went completely dead , nothing , zilch , picked up again and caught more chub and barbel till i packed in at 19.30 hours. most of the chub were in the 3-4 lb range and the barbel were smallish until my last cast when i had a near double figure barbel..strangely none of the barbel were caught on meat but quite a few of the chub were . river was low and fast with floating weed being a problem. all of the barbel were caught using hinders Flatz pellets..

7 Barbel, 15 Chub

Good day. Warm and sunny. River conditions good. All fish caught on pellet.

7 Barbel, 8 Chub

Tough day, but beautiful location and stretch of the River Wye. The river was low and very clear and the fish did not seem to be there. Two of us targeted the Barbel in particular sticking to larger pellet, meat and bollies with the Barbel and larger Chub falling to 12/14mm pellets fished with a feeder.
One of us tried trotting in the afternoon for a few hours which produced some smaller Chub and some nice Dace, mostly on corn and flake. All of us fished the top section from the fishing hut to the boundary of the fishery.
I had a walk through the wooded section and looked downstream and was left thinking this area would have been more productive, but very tough fishing. Something for the more adventurous of you to consider before you start, and be prepared to travel light !

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 10 Other

8 Barbel, 36 Chub

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Low but good by hut????????

9 Barbel

We’ve both fished this area 3 times now, on this session the river was at it’s lowest yet and you could tell by the canoes bottoming out in several areas. Started off slow, trying to find the deeper pockets of water but the stretch soon started to produce! Brilliant session with 16 chub between us

16 Chub

River was very low & slow running with lots of weed All fish caught on meat & pellet with ledger

3 Barbel, 26 Chub

We love Fownhope 5, even if it half kills us getting into the woods. Stu had 3 Barbel, with a beautiful double included. He also had 8 chub too. Simon had 8 chub of all sizes, fishing the lucky stone. This has become a tackle graveyard. I actually lost a tackle shop of feeders and hook links. I am thinking the riverbed has changed recently, maybe after the recent high waters. I have fished this swim for years now, and this is the worst it has ever been. Such is wild fishing. I broke the tip of my rod too, to make my day even better, grrrr. We will be back asap, and we will keep coming back too.
Cheers W&U for allowing us to fish this great stretch.
By the way, two people poaching in the top field, and once again using villagers rights as an excuse.
This seems to happen regularly. Bloomin stinkin hot day, but the river looked great.

3 Barbel, 16 Chub