Day 3 River Wye - Johns Turn

July 28, 2024

Morning all.

Waking up this morning feeling every bone in my body aching form the last couple of days I decided not to fish but to help John get a barbel on the float.

It had proved more difficult than we both anticipated but having some success the day before we were feeling quietly confident of a hook up.

For this session we were back to the Wye Lea stretch, fishing from a croy as I did the previous day.

The chosen run was further down stream with a lttle more even flow, much easier to run a float through that the previous one the day before.

I borrowed John my set up and he was fishing withing 10 minutes.

John balled in some ground bait and steadily feed pellt with meat on a size 6 hook as bait.

After another 10 minutes Johns float thumped under at the end of the trot. The Harrison SU doubled over in protest. I thought we had cracked it straight way.

After a few more minutes John shook his head and said " Nar. it's a chub mike, a good one, but a chub.

I did the honours and netted the golden flanked Wye chub. A lovely fish but not what John was after.

After a rest John quickly un-hooked her, took a quick picture, rested again then she was off back to her watery home.

"At least I've not blank shouts John" with more than a little irony his voice!!

So, "come on, back to it" said I. I feed the swim while John baited up his hook once more.

We were stood heal to heal at the end if the croy fishing a rod length out on a

6g Barbel Stick Float.

I was feeding while John was fishing. It's a very sociable way to fish if one person is not that bothered about fishing, or, you want to share a rod and swap when a fish is caught. We have done this many times on smaller rivers but never one the size of the Wye.