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Lovely place, fishing was hard today

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Stunning day and good fishing as always. Fished early until mid afternoon. Plenty of bites early doors and some cracking fish all in great condition.
Always feel privileged to fish this stretch stunning scenery.

13 Barbel, 3 Chub

Other fish was an eel

11 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

I fished a peg around 2/3 down the stretch, starting around 10am on the float. Struggled a bit but had a few small chub on meat, lost a couple into roots in the near bank. Swapped after lunch onto a small lead. Various small and large hook baits, meat, halibut pellet, robin red small boilie with pellets in pva mesh. A few taps but not successful. Switched back to lighter tackle late afternoon, touch ledger with swan shot on a running link and a 10mm carp pellet banded to a size 10 hook. Bites became very frequent, several small chub, another couple of larger ones lost to a snag. x3 lovely barbel in the evening up to 7lb 2oz.

3 Barbel, 10 Chub

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

Managed 4 barbel up to 9.9 we lost a couple as well

all caught on meat

River low and clear.

One big problem!
when arriving at one of our chosen swims an angler who said he paid ££900 per year to the Kingfisher syndicate on the the opposite bank had waded well over the half way point towards the wye & usk bank and was trotting a float about 5 yards from our bank, I explained that one of us had intended to fish in this particular swim ( as we had on previous trip ) but the angler refused to move saying the riparian owner actually owns both sides of the river and he was staying put for as long as he wanted and he did not recognise our rites as wye and usk ticket holders over his.

Although we caught fish in other swims this episode was very upsetting and ruined our day!!

Wye & Usk , please can you explain was this other angler from the other bank within his rites to do and say what he did?

Fishing Passport Note: No, he was not within his rights to act like this and we will be contacting the syndicate to ask them to refrain from this kind of behavior. Walking beyond halfway might technically be lawful if the opposite bank is the riparian owner of the whole river. However, the fishing rights on the left bank are owned by the How Caple Court fishery, so anyone fishing from the Ingestone side should not be casting beyond the halfway point.

4 Barbel

A really lovely stretch of river in beautiful surroundings. This beat would be absolutely ideal with another couple of feet with water as landing any fish caught would be a little easier. The weather was warm and sunny and the river low and clear mostly although the deeper pools seemed to be colouring up a bit. 2 anglers finished on 5 chub and one eel after a very tough days fishing.

5 Chub, 1 Other

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Back on this part of the wye again too found a great lack of oxygenating weed and cover for the fish having said that still a very nice part of the wye too be in especially longhorn cattle in the back ground. as ernest hemingway ones said as men get older they wake early to enjoy a longer day not so in are case if the fish are there we will manage too get a few as SM DID in a magnificent way to produce a wonderful barbell of 10ibs 7oz. SG 7 barbell 6 chub SM 5 barbell 10 chub MH {VERTERAN} 1 barbell 10 chub. will be back .

12 Barbel, 22 Chub

Fished the afternoon onwards. Tried a variety of swims. I like it here and keep trying but I can never get past the 2 barbel only. The barbel do seem a really good size here too. Keep trying

2 Barbel, 1 Chub