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see return for 1 rod

Very bright and hot, river v low , all fish came on luncheon meat from a fast glide on beat 4. Saw salmon jumping in pools. Very tough going.

12 Chub

Weather hot and sunny,river quite low and clear. One barbel caught just after sunset on pellet.

1 Barbel

6 Barbel

Second day on this beat, tried the hut peg to start with, after an hour with no enquiries, moved round into the wood. Fished the lucky stone in the hope of avoiding the chub, but a repeat of the previous days sport followed.
The problem with this peg being the large rocks on the riverbed, when a barbel was hooked the hook link was invariably cut, seven barbel hooked three landed. The Wye tackle fairy took six of my feeders!
The chub were very prolific, at 7.30pm after 36 chub decided a pint was more appealing than another chub. Thanks WUF 2 great days sport.

3 Barbel, 36 Chub

Baking hot day and the fishing was very hard!

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

No rush to the river today, 26 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. We did a bit of peregrine falcon spotting at Yat Rock and were fortunate to time it just right to see three of them in the air at the same time for quite a while. Pub lunch followed at the Saracens at Symonds Yat East to fuel us for the fishing.

We arrived at the river and started at 4pm til 10pm. Using 10mm pellets straight to a bomb with loose fed pellets. The odd ball of groundbait thrown in if we felt it needed it. No feeders.

Fishing close in so all bites were rod wrenchers as we got them feeding well. 22 nice barbel in the 6lb to 8.5lb range with just one chub to spoil the party.

Birds down the river today, little egret, swallows, swifts, sand martins, house martins, tawny owl to name a few.

Heaven!

22 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was low and the day hot; not ideal conditions for fishing. Started off with a roving approach from first light picking up a couple of decent chub. Spent much of the time later in the day in the swim just upstream from the fishing hut. A few decent fish were holding up there in the faster, deeper water and things looked promising; however they proved difficult to tempt using a variety of approaches (swim feeding pellet, legered meat, float etc). Managed a couple of barbel up to 5lb and a few small chub, however the bigger fish proved illusive. Really enjoyed the day despite the slow fishing. Its a lovely stretch of river with lots of decent fish and interesting swims. We will definitely return another day when conditions are more favourable.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other

It was a tough 3 days. The river was slow, low and clear. It got lower by the day surely not helped by it being drained to irrigate the surrounding fields?

We caught 24 fish over the 3 days (3 anglers) using mainly Halibut, Robin Red pellets and Peperami. The biggest was a 9lb 5oz barbel.

The pegs need some maintenance as they are overgrown with nettles. The access to them is also precarious and 'steps' need to be carved out. Still a very pleasant stretch to fish though.

7 Barbel

8 Barbel, 4 Chub