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Despite a river with a little colour, being overcast and drizzley we only managed to catch 5 chub between 4 of us.
Conditions looked ideal but the fishing very hard. Dont really understand why we didn't catch!

An evening session trying to float fish for the Barbel low down on the Courtfield stretch after the canoes have departed the pub..

Although the water was above summer level and flowing hard the water was very shallow ,only 4 or 5 ft max in the holes

Not very good at the float so struggled getting snagged and losing floats and halibut pellets regularly

Caught one at around 4lb, boy do they go on light gear with no weight to hinder them in fast water.

Tried the feeder and pellets for the last few hours before dark and it was like shooting fish in barrel,nothing large but a 5lb fish feels massive when caught in very fast streamy water. Lost count, but must have had 10 more or so plus some nice chub. Use heavy line around the feeder or you will be cut off by the sharp rocks.

I think this is the place to fish for barbel with heavy nymphs czech nymphing style, the chub, grayling and occasional big trout might like it too....

Many thanks to Don for putting me on the fish.

I will be back.

An evening session trying to float fish for the Barbel low down on the Courtfield stretch after the canoes have departed the pub..

Although the water was above summer level and flowing hard the water was very shallow ,only 4 or 5 ft max in the holes

Not very good at the float so struggled getting snagged and losing floats and halibut pellets regularly

Caught one at around 4lb, boy do they go on light gear with no weight to hinder them in fast water.

Tried the feeder and pellets for the last few hours before dark and it was like shooting fish in barrel,nothing large but a 5lb fish feels massive when caught in very fast streamy water. Lost count, but must have had 10 more or so plus some nice chub. Use heavy line around the feeder or you will be cut off by the sharp rocks.

I think this is the place to fish for barbel with heavy nymphs czech nymphing style, the chub, grayling and occasional big trout might like it too....

Many thanks to Don for putting me on the fish.

I will be back.

18th - I caught 8 barbel to 7:15 and my friends caught 3 barbel and 2 chub, and 1 barbel and 1 chub respectively.
19th - I had 6 barbel to about 7lb and 3 chub of about 2lb. Others caught 4 barbel to 8:04 and 1 barbel respectively. We fished the Vanstone pool area. It's a fantastic swim but I did feel a little uncomfortable fishing two days for a shoal which is obviously subject to a great deal of angling pressure. This was reinforced when I caught the same fish twice. Are there stretches of the Wye where the barbel are more spread out?
All in all I had 22 barbel over 3 days so was very happy with my first visit to the Wye. Fabulous river and surroundings - we will be back. Thanks to WUF for good service.

Overcast day. 2 trout early in the day on black bibios, nothing for the rest of the day. Lovely setting.

2 anglers, 17 Chub and 2 small Barbel (no larger than 5lb) and whilst not the biggest catch by weight it was a great day's fishing.

4 Anglers had 24 Barbel a few chub and an eel on a variety of baits between us.
Still a little dissappointed that so much of the river here is unfishable due to the dense foliage.

Fished the lower end and had 5 chub to 5lb, 3 on freelined pellet. The river was carrying a lot of weed so conditions slightly tricky. The fish were in excellent condition and fought extremely well. Very impressed.

1 x trout 14 inches, Williams Favourite. Evening started well, with a good breeze kicking up some sediment along the shore and a decent fish taken close in at about 8 PM. But then the wind dropped to a flat calm, the fish moved off-shore out of casting range and a horrendous plague of midges appeared to attack every inch of exposed skin. Seth at the WUF was telling me the same thing happened to him at Llyn Bugeilyn recently. I suppose it's not surprising, given the weather we have had and all the acres of mud and rotting weed exposed by receding water levels. My bottle of insect repellent seemed totally inneffective, so retreated scratching furiously to the car before dark.

The river was in good condition in lovely surroundings. Even though this is a short beat, there are really only 3 or 4 fishable swims with the rapids covering 50% of the fishery. I caught a few chub, and the bird watching was superb. A lovely day despite the lack of fish.