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Another red hot day on the Wye. Never been so hot whilst fishing!

We were travelling home today so had little hope of much action. After spotting some chub on the surface we managed 4 off the top of bread, along with a chub and an eel on meat. Had we fished the evening, I'm confident we would have had the odd barbel.

Saw our mates from the canoes at Fownhope yesterday. Fools. One canoe came straight for my line and I had to quickly grab the rod and put the tip under the water. All I got was looked at while I was stupid...

Also had a family swimming in the river near the island. Can't understand why you would want to swim in a river thats full of cow excrement but each to their own. Had they been swimming there in normal conditions I would have been annoyed but with the river been so low fortunately we were not fishing there.

What is the procedure if you find someone swimming on the Wye? Do they have the right to swim or do they have to move? Either way its annoying when we pay 25 pounds a day to fish.

5 Chub, 1 Other

Fished below the steps from 3pm to 6.30pm, caught 1 Barbel 6lb 3oz, 1 Chubb 3lb 14oz and an eel. Once again conditions were hot and the weed pretty heavy, but a very enjoyable afternoon. All fish were caught using a feeder and pellet. Thanks Wye and Usk.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

fished pegs by the steps, started at 3pm with intention of fishing until dark. Better conditions with it cooler and plenty of cloud cover. Caught sporadically through the afternoon but expected sport to improve later - it became slower the later it got. Caught on 8mm pellets on feeder

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

8 Chub

40 Chub, 1 Other

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel hot & low

1 Barbel

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River as expected very low and sluggish; considerable lengths of streamer weed showing. Fished with 2 x 8mm hair-rigged pellets behind a 1.5oz feeder, filled pellet & hemp. First chub no bigger than the length of my finger, couldn't believe it took my bait. Followed shortly afterwards with a 6.5lb barbel (landed quickly before recovering strongly in the net, although it took some time). 3.5lb chub followed an hour later. Sun popped up after 3hrs fishing and ended the session. At this point, I could see my swim clearly, and that I'd caught fish from the only clear spot in my swim. A pre-visit if possible, prior to fishing would've helped. Swim depth of circa 3 - 4ft deep. Lovely stretch. NB; dead salmon (6lb) sadly floating belly-up in the swim.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub