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A late afternoon session of 3 hours. The chub came to pellet and feeder. Then moved and had a whopper of a barbel at 10lb 5oz, my biggest barbel from the Wye. The first 3 seconds I thought it was a chub but that was just it shaking its head. It then took off down the river and stripped about 70 meters of line. Bent my landing net getting it out. Am over the moon. I’ve had some dire days on the Wye and this has made up for it all! Also lovely to meet my fellow angler who seemed to have had a good day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

For whatever reason the Barbel were in hiding all day, we usually get among a few!
We tried middle of the length and bottom, 5 Chub in total. The middle pegs were pretty snaggy as well, we lost 4 full rigs between us.
Afternoon we went to the top of the stretch, 2 Chub immediately on the tip, so decided on a switch to a big waggler, with us sharing the rod for most of the rest of the session. Feeding plenty of hemp and castors plus small pieces of meat soon had the Chub lining up. We had 29 further Chub between us ranging from 3/4lb to 4lb, mostly on small pieces of meat. It was good fun and something different from sitting watching a tip..........
But where the hech were the Barbel? We fully expected some to turn up over the bed of hemp, castors and meat, but they remained in hiding!!!

36 Chub, 2 Other

Plenty of bites throughout the day. Went quiet into the evening

5 Barbel, 21 Chub

River well up so finding fishable spots a bit tricky. Covered the whole section and managed a few nice fish. The barbel was 8lb 2oz and Chub was 4lb 10oz, the other was 3 large eels which I didn't weigh. Did lose a couple of barbel to hook pulls, one right at the net that looked bigger than the one I caught, which was a bit gutting. Only meat worked today, couldn't get a bite on anything else. Lovely section though, good parking and access.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

We caught 6 Barbel to 7 1/2 lb & 28 Chub to 5lb 4oz.

6 Barbel, 28 Chub

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Difficult day river was well on the rise with all sorts of debris coming down. Found a few hungry fish but could get any consistency. However kept me thinking all day. Enjoyed very much.

5 Chub

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

River looked in great condition, but fishing was still quite hard. All bites came on meat or pellet. Great parking arrangement, easy walk to river and good swims available. 4 Fished.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

2 Barbel, 3 Chub