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Meat on a bomb

13 Chub, 1 Other

Quick look at river so only fishing for an hour. Maybe next time will make a day of it.

An early start at llyn frongoch paid dividends with a half pound brownie and a 1&1/4 lb rainbow (both returned). by lunchtime the fish were locked into hatching dragonflies so I returned home, happy with my visit to mid wales

2 Trout

On arrival we looked at the river levels and walked to the top end spraying s few pellets in swims we fancied. Then we started setting up at the end bend, and got ready for another day on the Wye. We all fished near each other as Andy is a river novice and David isn't as young as he once was (who is) so we thought it best to be on hand for each other. Andy had dug out his Porky Pig mk2 for the occasion got set up and had his first cast into the Wye, within minutes his rod wrapped round and he hooked and landed his first Barbel. 6lb. I hadn't even cast in at this point, but as soon as I did i started getting knocks on the rod. David caught a Barbel at around 5lb soon after which I netted and returned fully recovered. We had action throughout the day catching on meat, pellets and elips small boilies.

The wildlife we saw was fantastic, kingfishers chasing each other, herons, various birds of pray. On the far bank a couple of mink were chasing ducks and a young cormorrant was working further down stream. A great day, it went quiet at between 1 and 5 pm when the sun was at its worst but then came back to life. We left at 7pm as my father in law didn't fancy the walk in the dark but by then we were content.

Baits used hemp and halibut groundbait in 30g feeder
2ft hooklength to either meat or small 8mm pellets. P
The river is low but the fish were in good nick and went back well rested and strong.
Biggest Barbel 8lb all the chub were between 3-5lb
We actually lost count of the chub so I've put 15 as a very conservative estimate. Again a good day on the Wye, I do like this stretch.
Thanks WUF

14 Barbel, 15 Chub

Explored more of the beat. Lovely place.
Had 1 Chub rolling meat. My friend had 2 Barbel.

1 Chub

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

All caught on meat. Barbel c5lb, largest Chubb c4lb. The 'others' were Eels both around 1lb

1 Barbel, 12 Chub, 2 Other

River was still very low and clear, with a lot of weed present. Needs a flush through to clear it up I suspect. A few rises during the day but the evening buzz never materialised. Had one take on a dry but missed it and it seemed to spook everything else! I small trout to a gold head nymph and that was about it. Nice to be back on the river though.

1 Trout

4 Trout

no fish no bites