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A good day on one of my favourite beats. The river level was quite low but the grayling were shoaled up in the faster runs. All the fish came to Euro nymphing tactics. The most successful jig was a red tag.

What has happened to the “new footbridge” ? I searched but couldn’t find it.

14 Grayling

Very light wind and generally overcast, @12°C
Good conditions. All fish caught in the morning on size 14 silver bead hare's ear nymph, not a single tug in the afternoon. Significant fallen trees on upper half of beat. Lovely to be here again.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Only 2 anglers fished. We ended up with 4 barbel and 3 chub. A few barbel lost too. Really nice stretch with easy access.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lovely day out on the Wye tried lots of swims in woods and in the field but for some reason fish were just not feeding. One 2lb chub at 5.15pm saved the blank.

1 Chub

2 trout caught, 1 returned (high efficency release as i tried to net it....).

Lots of evide of anglers using power batis, scattered pots, used baits ect includign within the fly only section . Lot of mess left by anglers around the lake.

2 Trout

Another great day on this beautiful venue. The Barbel were showing more interest today, but the Chub were a bit shy. The river conditions and the weather were spot on and we were happy with our results for a shorter session today.
Thanks to St Mary's in Foy for allowing convenient parking. Will make a donation to support the upkeep of this lovely building.

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished from the croys. Unfortunately blanked.

2 Barbel

Lovely conditions.
Pike on spicy sausage pellet !!!!

10 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Pike

This was our first visit to Upper Breinton. Arriving at the gate into the field we found that the combination padlock was broken and hanging loose. The gate was partly secured together with some string and elasticated rope.

The drive down to the river was straightforward and we could park at the rivers edge. This is a small beat with only 6 or 7 fishable swims but enough choice for the two of us.

My fishing buddy John fished from a nice comfortable swim in the first field and I chose the first swim just into the small wooded area. Mine was a lovely looking swim which could have been so much easier to fish with a bit of maintenance of cutting back branches both above me, to aid casting, and also to remove benches growing out of the bank in front of me.

All the fish we caught came early into late afternoon, Barbel up to 8lb and the best Chub was 4lb, all fish coming to meat.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub