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River still high but dropping. With the warm temperatures we thought the Barbel might make an appearance but it wasn’t to be. 3 nice Chub and despite the water colour a low double Pike couldn’t resist a float fished smelt tight to the inside. Lovely day to be on the river

3 Chub, 1 Pike

Good weather, mild and v light breeze. Good water level and clarity. Peaceful, quiet. No noisy dogs.
A couple of bumps in five hours fishing the beat top to bottom with tungsten and gold head nymphs, ptn's and red tags. If there was a shoal of grayling on the Skenfrith stretch, they kept themselves very well concealed.
Maybe the four wild swimmers I chatted to in the car park before fishing had spooked them.

I hoped that the rise in water temperature might bring the barbel on to the feed, but they were not in evidence. To add to my disappointment the chub were laughing at me, with numerous snatches and rattles on the rod tip but only a half-dozen decent bites, two of which I missed, three hooked fish managed to escape, leaving me with a solitary chub of about a pound and a half. Not my best day on the Wye, but good to be out, just the same.

1 Chub

The unseasonally mild weather tempted me into another 'last' trip to MHC. I woke to a 10 degree temperature reading in the car and arrived to find the river at 2.25m and dropping with nice colour to it. Despite the time of year and a number of recent frosts I felt optimistic (a condition I do suffer with).
This had drained out of me after the second swim at the top of the fishery without a bite. A move to the bottom produced a chub pushing 4lb. No further bites but a blank avoided at least.
I moved back up the top to a swim I'd not fished before and had the worm bitten off on the first cast. 2 casts later a proper bite and after hard but short fight a pristine 4lb barbel was on the mat. Not the munter of my dreams but great reward for having a go.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time on this beat. Following the weekend's rain the river hadn't fallen back as mutch as I had anticipated when I booked - it was still at 0.73 on the Byton guage. I explored the whole stretch, but It was a struggle to find any decent swims for trotting where the river wasn't pushing through. Nothing caught, but it's a nice spot and I'll come back when conditions are more favourable.

Tough days fishing. We managed 2 x nice size Chub in the deeper section.

2 Chub

nothing caught

River 3m up not a great section as only one possible slack to fish. But a day out on the Wye is always a good day

3 Chub

River flooded so no grayling to report unfortunately.

Tough day.

Temperature rise and in some places over a metre up in depth maybe more compared to last week, one fish caught. Euro nymped for the majority of the day, on reflection should have dry flied with a nymph more as well as indicator fishing which I did catch on. Not the best of times.

1 Grayling