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Day 3 of our annual pilgrimage. Scorching hot and sunny day so always up against it. But we persevered and winkled out a nice 7 1/2 pound barbel late on.
The bottom field was full of caravans and we were told that they had the fishing in that field during July/August - we were made to feel less than welcome. A shame as there are a couple of reasonable swims in that field.

1 Barbel

Poor????

7 Chub

An aweful day on the river.

Started in the faster water by the island but moved due to the number of canoeists beaching on the island opposite.

Moved upstream by the steps and again it was impossible to fish, the river looked like the M25 with canoes, it seemed most were on stag weekends judging by the noise and behaviour. We were even treated to some swimmers and paddle boarders thinking it was great fun to fall off in our swims.

Maybe just an unlucky day but very frustrating, the fishing never stood a chance. Both fish caught by the steps

2 Barbel

4 barbel caught throughout the day with a nice small fish of around 2 1/2 to 3lb mark. Again the water colour was odd for the Wye, watery gravy. Which seemed to affect the chub numbers, well of larger chub. 20 small chublettes on corn caught, few inches in size.

4 Barbel, 20 Other

Arrived at the beat around 5pm and made our way towards the bottom end. The river was at a normal summer level but very chocolate colour which seemed strange as we were told it hasn't rained much in the last week.

Fishing was very slow to start with but eventually we managed a couple of chub and a barbel.

We decided to move for the last couple of hours and found a few more fish before the swim went dead. In the past we have found that the last hour can be hectic or dead. Unfortunately this time it was dead but we were happy with our catch considering the catches other people are reporting so far this season.

5 Barbel, 14 Chub

A warm dry day with periods of sun and cloud. Forgot when booking that the bottom field would be unavailable because it is used for caravans for a few weeks in the summer. The chub were very obliging but like the previous 2 days spent on another beat the barbel proved to be very elusive.

WUF Nore : The bottom field is available, just not exclusive as there my be campers also fishing.

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

Hard days fishing 1 barbel 7lb 8oz and 1 chub of around 4lb on small cubes of meat down the edge ..3rd field was unfishable as full of caravans parked up at the rivers edge ...river colour dark brown and decent flow

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was an unattractive brown colour and quite a lot of weed beds now. Weather overcast and warm. Started with feeder and pellet but not a touch so changed to meat. This brought one barbel and (inevitably) a couple of eels. Moved to some faster water and had two more barbel and four smallish chub, again on meat. Barbel were all around the 6lbs mark. The winter floods of about three years ago destroyed access to many swims below the island and the bottom field is infested with campers, so there is now much less readily fishable water.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

We fished with cage feeders and 8mm pellets on the hook close to the near bank, hard work but ended up with 3 barbel to 8lb, once again river slightly high with lots of loose streamer weed making fishing conditions very difficult.

3 Barbel

1 Barbel, 16 Chub, 1 Other