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A beautiful warm and sunny day but the Wye was in flood, having gone up 6 feet since yesterday- the River level at Mordiford was 3.01 Metres on arrival. Very little choice of swims due to the very high level. We started in two swims at the downstream end fishing very close in but lost a lot of tackle in the bankside snags. One of us, not me, made the sensible decision to move to the downstream end swim and caught several fish. Best barbel 8.0 and 8.3 lbs.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

River well up and coloured but steady. Fished the downstream end in the morning for a Chub and an Eel, before moving to the Upstream limit where I found the Barbel, which seemed to have a brief feeding spell of about an hour at midday. 7 and 9lb respectively. Also lost a Barbel to a hook pull.
Regarding the vehicle access to this beat; it would be stupid to attempt to drop down the track from the farmyard towards the river in anything but a good 4 x 4. The track is a literal river of Cowsh… and the field is a quagmire. I tried to park sensibly in the farmyard then took the short walk down.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Nice stretch with good parking, bit of a walk but good access and banks. River was high so fished slack water close in. Caught an eel on spam, switched to source pellet, had a barbel (3pm) 9lb. Good result for 3 hrs fishing!

1 Barbel, 1 Other

River was up all good but not many fish. One barbel one big chub good temp no rain?

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Warm sunny day for the most part, but river high and coloured.

Hooked several grayling but couldn't get any to the net, did land 3 OOS trout though.

3 Trout

Yellow rain warning and rising river levels so I didn't travel and fish

River up and challenging. We thought with colour and height that the fishing would be slightly better.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

The river was rising quickly. All fish taken from near side slack water.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

Fished from about 1pm - overcast, mild, no wind. 2 chub on meat. Nice beat, good parking and easy access.

2 Chub