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Another tough day on a painfully low River Wye! Nevertheless a pleasure to Fish such a beautiful and well maintained beat.

15 Chub

Good day return one water very low

5 Trout

Fished from first light until 11am chub first cast then pretty much relentless until about 10-30 no fish under 2lb and two of 5lb 9oz and 6lb 3oz ,fished the wooded section using various baits trying to locate the barbel but to no avail the chub intercepted them straight away.I planned to return in the evening but scaling heart attack hill twice in a day deterred me.

34 Chub

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

As a angler with health problems I struggled here today where the normal angler won’t have. Besides that I found a nice swim with a gully that gave up some nice perfectly formed barbel and chub plus a eel of 3+lb

4 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Wow the water level is low. So I wasn’t really counting how many I actually caught but I lost more grayling than I got to the net, and I caught quite a lot. I caught one really good one and lost 4 better ones, the best probably after 3 or 4 minutes of playing it and I never even saw it!
I euro nymphed in the morning and clink and dinked from 4 till just before dark. Only one fish rose to the dry.
There were significantly more single fish rising early morning than evening. I didn’t catch a trout all day. Plenty of salmon par, again I lost count of how many.
Tried a bit of indicator fishing in the top section and will give it a proper go in a couple of days time when I do it all again. This is the first place I really fished in wales and I feel quite sentimental when I come back. Where have the trout gone though?

15 Grayling, 5 Other

Nil Trout
2 - Perch

Always a challenging beat to fish, with some very difficult wading situations but it's well worth the effort – take great care on the slippery rock! Such a pretty place though, the fishing hut is great, there's so much water to cover and it holds a really good head of grayling. With such low water and bright sunshine, all but one were caught nymphing. Parking is interesting off the A470 – reversing down the rough track is advised!

8 Trout, 8 Grayling

Surprised to catch in sunny hot conditions looked for the deeper water. Stunning location.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Barbel, 30 Chub