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2 Trout

To hot ...blanked

Day cut short by nasty head injury sustained when I tripped going down the bank and a small tree that I grabbed for support snapped. Fortunately my wife was with me and got me to Brecon hospital. Very grateful for a good pair of sunglasses which survived the impact of my head with the bedrock and probably saved one eye. Other than that had some good sport with a DHE on the lower beat despite the heat and had just walked to the upper beat to get away from the many swimmers. Lovely beat which I hope to fish again in better circumstances.

4 Trout

1 Trout

Very hard fishing and water low, temp 30 degrees so hardly surprising we struggled between 3 of us to catch anything . Swims were difficult to get to, and there has been a fair bit of bank erosion making it dangerous in places now with under cut banks. The more accessible swims in the second field were not possible as the field has been booked out to the Caravan and Camping association.
Canoists a persistent problem, and some totally unaware of any code of conduct re pushing across to the other bank.
Hoping this will calm down later in the season and fish stocks haven't been affected.

1 Barbel

The hottest day I've ever fished the Wye, expecting a bit of a struggle we arrived around 2.00pm and had a good walk along the whole of the beat to try to make decent swim selections, then fished from around 3.30pm. My long-time fishing friend opted for a nice comfortable swim near the car (he has had two knee replacements so I'll excuse him), whilst I opted for a swim that was barely accessible down a steep slope but obviously contained fish. The barbel decided to rip up the rule book and feed voraciously in the blazing sunshine - caught six in six casts between 3.30pm and 6.30pm. After that they backed off a bit but had another two before packing up at 8.30pm. It would have been possible to catch more but in the conditions the barbel needed a really good rest in the landing net before going home (and to be honest I was knackered too). By contrast, a blank for Mr. No-Knees in the comfy swim. I felt bad for him, but he did catch a double -figure barbel on my rod in my swim on our previous trip so I guess that's karma.

8 Barbel

1 Chub

3 Trout

A hot sunny day and the river was very low. No salmon seen, possible barbel take on a Salmon fly.

River looked great had Chubb 3 1/2 lb straight away on moving meat.
Lots of small stuff in the day. Two more Chubb on boilie towards dark biggest about 4 lb.
Plenty of walking on this venue so travel light .

3 Chub, 25 Other