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A wet showery day with little wind.Had 11 fish including 6 grayling and 5 browns upto 12 inches on nymphs and cdc dries between two anglers

5 Trout, 6 Grayling

No action at all. Clear water but couldn't see anything. Nothing. Not even minnows!

Spent 5 hours on this lovely beat. Saw a few fish, but after one cast they were gone so very spooky. Nothing I could throw at them would tempt them so gave up late afternoon. Lots of potential in this beat but seems to be sparse of fish at the moment

4 nice Grayling 12 to 15 inches from the slower water at the bottom of the beat. All fish took a size 16 Black magic nymph on a french leader and 10 foot rod.

4 Grayling

A few things notched off the bucket list today, fishing the Wye, catching a Barbel and catching a good sized Chubb. Fantastic epic venue.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished early morning through to late afternoon for 1 Eel and 1 lost Barbel that cut off on mid river snag. Beat looked great but just wasn't our day as even trotting wouldn't throw up a fish. Overnight rain had meant track down to river would be tricky unless in 4x4 and were advised by farmer to park in farmyard and walk down to river, glad we did as further rain during day would have meant a struggle to get back up.
At lunchtime couple of 'locals' joined us who claimed farmer allowed them to fish if beat not fully booked, they were polite and asked if we minded but shame they dropped onto the croy from which I had been trotting when talking to them and had fed earlier in the hope of a Barbel, especially as they claimed only after pike and seemed to be fishing for the Barbel!
Did spot a couple of otters patrolling the far bank but not sure we can blame them for what was a disappointing day for us.

1 Other

The river was as low as we had ever seen and, sadly, our two favourite swims had received severe pruning back of the trees bordering the swims removing refuge places for the fish. We tried three different swims but not a touch all day. Two barbel and a chub in the last hour. A difficult day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Weather very changeable alternating between showers and sunshine. Caught a dozen fish the best being an 11" WBT. Succeeded with a mixture of a small dry caddis and a Jon Barnes (Onstreamguide) rainbow beaded flash back caddis nymph. Water was very low but enough to entertain. Lower end of beat before the rocks was best. Used a 5wt 9' rod.

7 Trout, 5 Grayling

Low clouds and some long awaited rain coincided with our visit to the Creel and we arrived with some hope on this lovely venue.Fishing was steady all day and much to our delight we bagged a few hard fighting Barbel a couple of which were just over 9lb...Packing up at dusk we also had the pleasure to meet the owner of the beat who is a really nice accommodating fellow..Needless to say but we thanked him profoundly on behalf of all WUF anglers for allowing us to fish this fantastic beat and was a pleasing end to a great day..!!

11 Barbel, 2 Chub