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Very enjoyable evening rolling meat over shallows. 3lb Barbel, both chub over 4lb and the other 5 were eels, which while nice to see in numbers wouldn’t leave the meat alone! Try again tomorrow.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other

Good to get the barbel/chub ratio going in the right direction.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub, 3 Other

New venue for me, went to scout and fished for couple of hrs this evening. Nice venue, instructions clear on map etc, U-tube video helped. Blank only avoided by eel that picked up flavoured meat at 8pm. But will certainly keep trying.

1 Other

Couple of hours 7ish till dusk baited a few swims as had woods to myself. 3.6m net handle useful allowed me to fish the “flood swims” . One chub was a real lump pushing 6lb. Not sure if one of the eels was a conger!! Over 4’ long - terrifying
I saw a post saying no swims 1st visit and majority are still accessible and cleared.

Given the temperature did better than expected tbh

2 Chub, 2 Other

ALL three of us was disappointed in this beat looking at some videos the work or any work has not
Been carried out over 2yaers or more the three of us have fished many parts of the wye over years and have to be honest
We will not be rushing back and it would be a good idea if someone could put a sign on the gate saying NO PARKING IN FRONT OF GATE most annoying S G NO FISH MH 2 CHUB S M 4 CHUB 1 EEL

6 Chub, 1 Other

Given the hot , windy and sunny conditions with the level at 0.1m at RoW, this was always going to be a challenging day for the 3 of us fishing.

The video on the WUF website overstates how easy it is to fish and most pegs required above average agility. The meadow area does not have many accessible swims. Not much sign of recent bank maintenance. Note the opposite bank appears to be some form of club water with numerous cut out swims. 3 anglers fished opposite and we did not notice them catch anything

Having said that 4 chub were caught on the float , the best going around 5Lbs and the day was made by a very nice 7Lb thickset barbel that went off like a train.

Despite the barbel, this is probably not a fishery we would be returning to .

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Found a couple of spots that the barbel seemed to hold in. Lovely beat but the top half needs some attention and the swims from last year are now not accessible.

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Chub

This was our first trip to the Wye hoping to catch a Barbel. Relatively inexperienced when it comes to rivers but fish alot of still waters so hard to say if our returns were down to inexperience or fishing conditions.

All 4 anglers fished the sheep drink swim as this was the only spot we could all get in. Water level looked low but a few fish showed as we arrived. 3 chub averaging around 3-4 lb were caught on the feeder using pellets and luncheon meat. We also took a bonus pike of around 8lb which took a pellet on the retrieve and somehow stayed on.

3 Chub, 1 Pike

5 chub 1 eel

5 Chub, 1 Other