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7 Chub

An aweful day on the river.

Started in the faster water by the island but moved due to the number of canoeists beaching on the island opposite.

Moved upstream by the steps and again it was impossible to fish, the river looked like the M25 with canoes, it seemed most were on stag weekends judging by the noise and behaviour. We were even treated to some swimmers and paddle boarders thinking it was great fun to fall off in our swims.

Maybe just an unlucky day but very frustrating, the fishing never stood a chance. Both fish caught by the steps

2 Barbel

4 barbel caught throughout the day with a nice small fish of around 2 1/2 to 3lb mark. Again the water colour was odd for the Wye, watery gravy. Which seemed to affect the chub numbers, well of larger chub. 20 small chublettes on corn caught, few inches in size.

4 Barbel, 20 Other

Arrived at the beat around 5pm and made our way towards the bottom end. The river was at a normal summer level but very chocolate colour which seemed strange as we were told it hasn't rained much in the last week.

Fishing was very slow to start with but eventually we managed a couple of chub and a barbel.

We decided to move for the last couple of hours and found a few more fish before the swim went dead. In the past we have found that the last hour can be hectic or dead. Unfortunately this time it was dead but we were happy with our catch considering the catches other people are reporting so far this season.

5 Barbel, 14 Chub

A warm dry day with periods of sun and cloud. Forgot when booking that the bottom field would be unavailable because it is used for caravans for a few weeks in the summer. The chub were very obliging but like the previous 2 days spent on another beat the barbel proved to be very elusive.

WUF Nore : The bottom field is available, just not exclusive as there my be campers also fishing.

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

Hard days fishing 1 barbel 7lb 8oz and 1 chub of around 4lb on small cubes of meat down the edge ..3rd field was unfishable as full of caravans parked up at the rivers edge ...river colour dark brown and decent flow

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was an unattractive brown colour and quite a lot of weed beds now. Weather overcast and warm. Started with feeder and pellet but not a touch so changed to meat. This brought one barbel and (inevitably) a couple of eels. Moved to some faster water and had two more barbel and four smallish chub, again on meat. Barbel were all around the 6lbs mark. The winter floods of about three years ago destroyed access to many swims below the island and the bottom field is infested with campers, so there is now much less readily fishable water.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

We fished with cage feeders and 8mm pellets on the hook close to the near bank, hard work but ended up with 3 barbel to 8lb, once again river slightly high with lots of loose streamer weed making fishing conditions very difficult.

3 Barbel

1 Barbel, 16 Chub, 1 Other

A very hot, sticky and uncomfortable day for fishing, standing in a hot sun all day, without any sign of a breeze. Following the recent floods, the rivers now beginning to fine down to noted summer lower levels, with numerous plume's of streamer weeds now showing. Despite me having doubts on whether the fish would feed, quite surprisingly in part they were there.

Fished 2 x 8mm hair-rigged halibut pellets behind a pellet / hemp / groundbait 50g feeder from 5:00am to 11:30am (6.5hrs), with fish taking from the start, with a lull in feeding through the middle, and then a pickup in action towards the end. On two occasions, a chub took my bait as it hit bottom, and before I got to put the rod on the rest. No photographs or fish weights were taken in that heat. The fish were netted, unhooked, rested in the net, and released promptly each time.

River level at the Ross-on-Wye gauge (Friday 4:00am) - 0.53m; weather - sunny all day, 24C, no breeze at all. Netted 1Nr barbel circa 6.5lb (lost 2Nr others), 18nr chub (lost 3Nr others). NB: A few salmon showing up and down the river.

Tight lines everybody.

1 Barbel, 18 Chub