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Low water tough day need rain????fished rapids

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

The river was fairly low but with a slight tinge of colour due to recent rainfall/showers. Access to fishable swims is very poor due to high, steep banks an no cut swims. The only pool which looks good can only be accessed by walking all the way up to the footbridge and back down again due to lack of accessible swims. There are some steps in places but they do not necessarily have a flatish area from which fishing is safe.
This could be a reasonable beat if some basic swim creation was carried out.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

River needs another foot of water in it, and not looking the most healthy at the moment. Bit of silkweed coming down but not too troublesome.
Been some years since I last fished the Creel and access to the water is poor, apart from the obvious swim by the steps in the '1st field'. I'm fit and agile but you need skills of a mountain goat to get down the mud banks on the lower water by the island. I wouldn't risk if this was wet. The top field has some good swims if only you could fish them. Minimum 5 ft drop into 5ft of water at best and having saved myself from this fate once sense took over. I like my rivers wild but this beat would greatly benefit from a few enhancements to enable access down to the water along it's length ( or bring your own rope ladder). Especially on days like the one just fished where the fish weren't in the one popular swim and had to be found.
Did winkle out a few Chub on trotted meat but fishing was hard. Probably will leave the Creel for a few more years again and the Wye till conditions improve.

3 Chub

A day of roving and trying to find safe access to the water in likely looking areas. The only accessible "swims" were to slow moving water and confidence was very low. One bite all day which I somehow managed to miss which summarised a disappointing day with no fish caught by myself. My angling companions faired slightly better but unlikely we would return to this stretch unless some swims were created for safe access.

Chub caught on various methods including 2 on trotted Luncheon meat at top of the Beat, looks wild and not fished
but would be worth looking at if you had suitable tools to clear the stinging nettles.
biggest at 4lb 11oz with 3 between 3lb 9oz and 3lb 15oz. No Barbel showing. 3 others were eels.

11 Chub, 3 Other

2 Barbel, 1 Other

2 Chub, 1 Other

A blistering hot day suitable for sitting beside a pool with the drink of your choice not ideal fishing weather! No shade on this stretch of the Wye so really suffered in the heat. Managed a few out but retired early to the comfort of the air conditioning in the car. One point of note higher up the beat is a great looking peg lower down than Foy Bridge just below the rapids which has wooden steps going down to it but is all over grown. If you go to the trouble of installing steps on a swim that would be ideal in low flow conditions then why not spend the time in the close season maintaining it?

4 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Weed was tripping the leads after five minutes or so making for a very difficult day. Even 5oz's was no match for the combination of blanket weed and flow. One Barbel caught 6am with the remainder coming at dusk. Thankfully, a few obliging Chub in between.

4 Barbel, 17 Chub

WEED and LOTS of it !
Great to be back on the Wye again but wow so much green stuff .
Fishing quite hard as is quite often the case early season. A short feeding spell brought most of the fish and then it went dead just when we thought the fish would have another munch but only 1 more barbel just before dark . Thanks to all at WUF and the owner who popped by for a quick chat.

5 Barbel, 9 Chub