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4 chub 2 eel's, very hard going but nice to be back on the river

4 Chub

6 Chub

Not much happening as weather was to hot but still a good day

1 small, very obliging, perfectly conditioned chub saved a blank. Scorching hot, traditionally slow start to the season, hoping for more productive days to come. Lovely to be back on the Wye.

1 Chub

4 Trout

Arrived around midday conditions very hot and sunny. Tried below the bridge at the lower end of the beat, rivers was running a brownish peat colour may have been a release of water from a reservoir somewhere up stream.
Nothing doing at all.

By 16.00 the water cleared a little and for the next 90 or so minutes fish started to move and take off the surface. A size 16 grey wolf and black knat on the dropper attracted plenty of attention. Trout circa 8 to 10 inches, Grayling circa 10 inches. All returned unharmed.

7 Trout, 8 Grayling

It's been a VERY long time since I've fished the first day of the river season as it's normally more miss than hit for me. I'd been rewarded with a beautiful sunrise and an indecisive wild boar on my journey before I'd even seen the river. I fed the bottom pool with some pellet before fishing the run on the float on meat over hemp. 3 nice chub in the first hour before a move to the bottom pool produced 5 chub, 2 eels and a small barbel on bomb and meat over loose feed. Couldn't get a bite on pellets
Another move back up on the run gave me 2 more small barbel on corn and a blackcap feeder/hemp before a last go on the float produced 2 more chub. Left at 1300. Nothing over 3lb but a solid start, enjoyable start to the season on a gorgeous morning.

3 Barbel, 12 Chub, 2 Other

5 decent chub
30 other small chub, perch, etc including 2 eels
No barbel

5 Chub, 30 Other

First day of the season and arrived to find plenty of swims available. River looked okay after the previous weekends heavy rain had washed through, nice height and colour. Weather very hot though and quite slow fishing throughout the day. Changed swims and caught 3 x chubb but no sign of the barbel.

3 Chub

I feared the worse on a hot sunny day at Caradoc and unsurprisingly was not alone with plenty of other people enjoying the river....The fishing was slower than expected but I was entertained with a swimming race...the participants were not quite Olympic standard but I got a good view of the action as they splashed through my swim a couple of times...There are a considerable amount of small Chub in the stretch and I caught about 20 in the 4 to 12 oz bracket...3 Good Chub rounded off a reasonable day in view I packed up before 7.30pm and fished from 10.00am in scorching conditions.

3 Chub, 20 Other