Last day barbel attempt

Well I havnt bone this for many a year, the last day of the river season and I find myself on the banks of a river, along with Judith and my middle child james, both of whole are really enjoying there fishing and doing really well, I never realised how competitive Judith is, she has a species and size list going between her and me, and it makes for fairly bad reading, it only counts when we are out together, and she is beating me on species by more than a few , and on size in several of those aswell, but Fairplay cos as I've said before, I'm really enjoying the fact she comes along now , whether it's in a supportive capacity to help spot my bites lol, or actually fishing. And as always a big thanks to our daughter Lauren who does the dog sitting duties so we can get out together, x.
Back To Today and after a stop off at the premier inn in gloucester, and after the last couple of Times here which was very nice we were very dissapointed , it was now help yourself and only worthy of a 3.
Left there full, but not happy, 30minutes later, and we were driving up the banks of the river Wye,  at amanstone fishery, run by stan, and at 15 quid , not to bad a price , especially when you consider Judith and James were 12 quid each to fish at shearwater.
With the river several feet up, but dropping I thought it may be ok , and as there were several barbel caught the day before, so we went about 2\3 the way up the first field and found a nice long piece of low bank where all three of us could fish comfortably,
Tactics today were fairly simple , 60/70 grm  cafe feeders with a halibut based groundbait mix, and a various selection of hookbaits, pellets in various sizes , meat , sausage maggots , so hopefully something to entice a fish or two,
 And it started off ok with James having a chub of about 3lb very soon after starting.

But it turned out to be a massive false dawn ,as apart from a couple of missed bites on a maggot feeder by me , which I think we're small fish as there was very little bait damage, it wasn't till late in the afternoon when Jamie struck again , into what was obviously a barbel by the way it was fighting, after a nice fight  our only barbel of the day was netted , and pulled the scales down to a nice weight of 8.5. So well done to him, only two fish and both to him, his best chub to date and his first wild barbel, but we will be back , already making plans for next year as Judith seems to have the barbel bug, and there aren't much better oofr more beautiful places to spend a day than in the wye valley.