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Very hot and sunny. River level up slightly following the heavy rain and storms from Saturday but still very low and clear.

2 Chub

Very hot sunny day worked against us. One nice 4lb Chub on bread.

1 Chub

Hard work this time, had heavy rain and thunder until mid afternoon. Not too many canoes however. Plenty of fish showing but not too keen to get their heads down until mid evening as the river rose and coloured up a bit.
Pellet and meat - the river bed still as tackle hungry as ever.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

A very hard days fishing. Started at Lugg Meadow 9am till 4pm in very heavy rain and thunder using all types of baits and methods but just couldn't get any bites. The canoe traffic was very busy and frustrating, most where polite, others were a nightmare when overturning there canoes and swimming through my swim shouting and splashing. A move to bottom end of fishery was decided. Fished the 2 swims at bottom of the steps which was very snaggy and ended up losing quite a bit of tackle. Packed up at 8.30pm to return another day! No fish caught, my first blank on the Wye!

1 x small chub & 6 eels. Excellent stretch of river to but unfortunately very heavy rain and thunderstorms all day made fishing difficult. Eels seemed to like it though.

1 Chub, 6 Other

Conditions were awful. Heavy thundery rain (following 30 degree heat the previous day). River had risen about 6 inches by the end of the day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River very low ahead of the weekend rain. One barbel of 6lb, one chub and one eel, all on pellet. Very tough going, with barbel only coming as light faded.
Why are anglers directed down an overgrown track when the much shorter route through the church is clearly marked as a Public Footpath. Anglers are members of the public too!

WUF note - This has been at the request of the owner.

Blanked. Bright sun, low river levels. Who knows? Will probably fish better now we have had some rain.

Second day of two days. Fished the Boat Pool again and river appeared to have risen a little following an overnight thundery downpour but was dropping. Caught fish throughout the day but had to wait a long time between bites. My father caught a nice 9lb 13oz barbel, using the feeder and a long hook link, very close to his first double on the Wye, maybe next time. I moved up to the wood crib late afternoon and caught a barbel just under double. A very hot humid day and difficult conditions but enjoyable. The access is excellent, a few snags to contend with but will be fishing this stretch again.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

This was a 'wind down day' after fishing the Wye for six days. Checking out of digs and the journey home meant we fished just about five hours. The day turned into a nature watch due to lack of action. A family of swans gave us some entertainment and we saw the usual kingfisher but most interesting was a couple of egrets which are not exactly common in England and aren't those azure blue damsel flies beautiful. Anyway after about three hours I finally got a bite from a nice chub followed by another. Both were about three pounds. PB also caught a couple and so ended another brilliant weeks Wye fishing. We were disappointed not to meet Colin the bailiff as we just dropped into the closest swims and a bit of advice would have been handy! Being registered disabled and 70 plus, I am not very agile and have to pick my spots carefully. Many thanks to the WUF for making the stretches available, we will be back next year.

4 Chub