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Two wbt and one salmon parr, best wbt about pound and a half. Fishing spiders with gold head hares ear on point. All fish on the gold head hares ear.

2 Trout

Lovely stretch, it was probably too hot for the barbel but when it cooled down a bit later I managed a scrappy 5lber and lost two others.

1 Barbel

Another hot day on the river. River still very low and still suffering from algae bloom. Amazingly we had three barbel in the heat of the day and another two towards dusk. Floating weed still a problem but we overcame this in part by using backleads. An otter surfaced two rod lengths out from my peg, it was eating a small fish.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

A great day on the Wye but a busy one. I have developed a new found fondness for the boating community in light of the swimmers who walk through your peg. First week of the school hols and 30 degrees guess I should have thought about that. I still really enjoyed it but found fishing tricky with the sheer volume of boats.
1 Big Eel

6 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Amazing evenings fishing, three barbel in last 90 minutes.

3 Barbel

A hot, but overcast (off and on) day. Part of a dry spell. Though overnight rain had helped the levels a little the water was still relatively low and clear. Couple of fish taken on small dry flies but most came to a small lightly weighted nymph fished upstream. Twelve fish to hand - not counting the minnow. Couple might have been Salmon Parr but we weren't sure. Mostly six inches or so but one good fish of perhaps 3/4 of a pound. 2 rods and modesty prevents my colleague declaring a win, 9 to 3. Doooh!

12 Trout

Thunder storms night previous, hence stream was fast and coloured. No fish caught.

1 Barbel

Short evening session. Expected slow going in the low conditions with 2 eels and 2 small chublets taken on maggots/worms. Two 3ft twitches at last knockings one missed one connected . Hardly any canoe traffic

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

Managed to catch a couple of barbel each in the evening, best 9lb 4oz and 8lb 4oz . Both of us also caught several chub. The others were 3 eels caught from 1 peg . Fish came to feeder and pellet/boilie tactics

4 Barbel, 8 Chub, 3 Other