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1 Chub

Perfect day. All taken on a dry

3 Trout

Caught 12 in total but only 6 were a reasonable size. The rest were "tiddlers". Bright and sunny day with a swirling wind making casting difficult. 4 decent fish caught on the north bank on the eastern side in and around the rocks after the shallows and into the deeper area. Traditional wets - Bibio, Machair claret and claret cruncher took the fish on a 3 fly set up about 18ft leader. Wind changed and got fed up hauling into wind so switched to southern bank. Had the rest of the fish on the move down the bank up to the power station pump house. Mostly around the rocks retrieving back over the drop off. Good hard fighting fish and a good afternoon out.

12 Trout

Lovely 4 days fishing plenty of bites on nymphs river very low on last day and hot

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 Barbel

No fish caught as I spent my time receiving casting instruction rather than attempting to catch trout. I did however see some trout rising for the yellow mayflies that were emerging.

First time on this beat, a hard day but it worth the visit, good swim clearance which was good.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

River was low and slow and fishing was similar. One barbel to 8lbs for 3 anglers with odd chub in 4lbs bracket. Weather conditions overcast but warm with a light wind.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

5 barbel to 1 of 3 anglers in the party. All barbel were small in the 1 to 1 and half pound bracket. Chub also up to 4lbs or so and an eel. River low and slow

5 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Great to be back on the beautiful River Wye. Fished from dawn til dusk for (insert made up number here) fish, mainly chub with one barbel.

Oh, I did catch an eel. It was bright green.

Bizarrely, started the day off with "Macarana" as an earworm and despite trying to sing every song I know from The Jam it would not go away. And now you have it. You're welcome.

Anyway, camped out at first light on the famous "Steps" peg and after getting over the disappointment of not seeing a picture of H, soon settled into a groove. I hoodwinked Chub of various sizes with my tactical nous, including one warrior who I may have caught more than once. I say that as we exchanged a knowing glance as he slid into the net for the second, maybe third, time and by the fourth time we were at that "kuh, what are the chances?" stage of embarrassing encounters.

All fish were in good nick, except one who looked like he'd just come off the set of the River Wye reboot of Rocky. I called him Chubby Balbao.

"Heyyyy Macarana.... ay ay"

Baits used were pellets, meat, corn and mouldy boilies I found in the shed whereas I had a Tesco Meal Deal, Ginsters Buffet Bar and an entire multipack of Monster Munch.

River was low and slow, and bank erosion in the bottom field meant access was only ok if you had rock climbing gear or a jetpack.

The first field has zero access to the river - I mean like none. Zilch. The entire bank is like Terry Waites allotment.

Note to WTF Foundation - buy some strimmers.

I left a happy man as I headed off in the dark past the graveyard. I'm sure that's where they filmed the Thriller video...

1 Barbel, 17 Chub, 1 Other