Feedback & Reports

Very wet ( muddy ) challenging day- couldn't get to the parking areas without a 4 x 4 ! wading through 6-8" of mud through the farmyard. Eventually fished a few hours at the top end, two nice barbel, lost two others & my companion lost one at the net.

2 Barbel

Two nice Barbel, one a double.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Tough day. Roved around to try and find the fish. No bites all day but as soon as the sun went down the rod went round. Just over 7lb.

1 Barbel

A wonderful days sport for two. 10 hard scrapping barbel from 5-9lb.
A full and very descriptive blog on the day available here:

https://timsriparianramblings.blogspot.com/2018/11/somewhere-under-rainbow.html?m=1

10 Barbel

Nothing caught

A return to the first Wye beat we ever fished - 10 years ago. Still a nice beat, glad we went, but the barbel weren’t playing. No sign of them at all. When we arrived there was an otter fishing at the top end - in broad daylight at 11am. Took very little notice of us. Despite that, the salmon were very active and the chub were feeding sporadically. Again, my skilled pal managed 5 chub - all on meat.
The weather was lovely and there was a spectacular sunset followed by a huge full moon rising .
That’ll be it for us this year, I think.

5 Chub

We block booked the beat. The river was about a foot up on normal levels and still had a bit of colour.
5 barbel were caught in the upstream field. 3 from the concrete walkway.
All on the usual pellet and boilie method

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Very hard. No bites until 2.00 and then nothing after 4.00pm. Water perfect but very cold.

3 Barbel

Misty start but the sun soon showed its face and another great day to be on the river. River itself was still dropping slowly from last weekends rain but still coloured. Settled into a swim that looked ideal and I could hold bottom about halfway with a 2oz feeder. No fish so moved after 2hrs and chose a swim 50 yards downstream. Initially fed heavily with groundbait feeder and pellet. First barbel at 2pm then caught steadily throughout the afternoon ending with 6 barbel and one chub. All fish over 6lb with best 9lb 1oz. Finished at 5pm to travel home a very contented angler.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Barbel