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Changeable weather conditions with cold rain making it feel very wintery before clearing to bright blue cold skies. River falling but still very fast and coloured with plenty of debris coming down. Kingfishers and an otter working the stretch. Decent amount of pegs some very muddy. Farmer was friendly. Nice stretch but as per other reports can be tough to find the fish.

2 Chub

This report is for 2 anglers CT and AW

CT - 1 Barbel and 3 Chub - the Barbel was caught in the middle of a storm - heavy rain and really high winds ! –there were “white water waves” on the Wye – The Barbel weighed in at 7lb 4oz . One Chub weighing about 3lb mark the other 2 smaller.

AW - Blanked

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel, 20 Chub

With the weather having turned for the colder we knew water temps would be dropping and the chances of a late season barbel would be fairly remote, especially after a couple of frosts, but we decided on a day on this lovely beat anyway. As suspecting the fishing was tough although a few chub succumbed to roving tactics.

5 Chub

Conditions weren’t good, river high and unfortunately we blanked.

CF , Birmingham - Fished meat, river level one metre up, one bite missed , no fish caught , drop in air temperature.

Amazing day for which 5 Grayling does not tell the whole story. I run off between French nymphing, dry fly and float fished maggot was won by the float fishing. All 5 were in the 1 -1/2 to 2lb class, the best estimated to be just over 2lb and one fish was quite dark with signs of historic Comorant damage, the rest all brightly coloured and clearly capable of growing bigger. Looking forward to returning to this beat, focusing on heavy bugs and dry fly next time.

5 Grayling

5 Grayling