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Not able to fish river too low. Not informed by wye and usk.wasted day

I have fished this spot since 1985 as a child on/off when a salmon syndicate used to lease it. It's always been a great spot for chub on the floating crust. The best water level to fish however is the lower wall level on the weir gardens side. So the recent drought we have is not really perfect. 6 great chub however and a big pike around 10-15lb chasing my sons rapala J11. My biggest pike from here is 27lb on a Roach dead bait. It's great to see salmon pink also in the fast water and trout jumping too. I didn't try barbel as this is a new species in this location. So it was great to bring the family over from ireland to savour my old haunt and the wye usk foundation have done a great job in keeping this fishery in a healthy condition.

6 Chub

A stunning bit of countryside, but on a red hot day the fishing was very poor with just 2 tiny barbel. As we like to travel light and wander about fishing different swims, we were disappointed by the lack of swims on this long beat.

2 Barbel

Again weather seriously too hot and lack of rain. A lot of algae blanket weed sticking to line every time you reeled in to cast. Again one of our group had a single barbel in the woods section about 4 pounds 8 oz. Also way too many canoes.
We will come back one day when the weather is more favourable.

1 Barbel

Again way too hot and lack of rain and a lot of blanket weed and canoes it was always going to be hard fishing only second trip to the Wye, didn't catch this time but will definitely be back though.

Swims a bit awkward not very level and a long way down to the water in the meadow also parking not brilliant.

Unbelievable sport in current weather conditions but cloud cover kept fish feeding all day.

27 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fishing the hottest day of the year was always going to to hard going especially with the river very low and slow.
Small chub landed towards the top end in the evening.

1 Chub

Due to circumstance's I could only managed 2hrs in the evening waste off a day but hey ho. Had a couple off knocks but nothing in the net.

not able to fish river too low .not informed by wye and ask .wasted day

Another sunny day on the Wye. The first swim was a slow water glide and it produced two barbel and 4 chub and a big eel (2lbs) but as the day got hotter sport slowed and I moved to a fast swim where the river rejoins after the Island. Very difficult to fish due to the high bank and overhanging trees but whenever I did manage to cast my free lined luncheon meat was taken, mostly barbel to 6lbs and two small chub and another eel. The numerous canoeists did not seem to effect the fishing except for the delay in waiting for them to clear the swim. Lovely place and good value.