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Beautiful frosty morning on this lovely section of the Wye. My favourite venue by far with the WUF. Clear blue sky, low river and cold clear water, not the best recipe for fishing but perseverance and patience was the order of the day. Didn't have a bite on the feeder during first hour. Switched to waggler. Caught a couple of Grayling trotting maggot then a clonking Brownie over 2lbs. Then I had a little walk down the river, to warm up a bit. Later in the day it clouded over and then I started catching Chub upto 4lb 12oz and even managed a 6lb Barbel, all on the feeder. All fish were in pristine condition. A fabulous day off on a cold day.

One sad note. On walking the bank. One particular peg, the steps, had rubbish all over it , even tucked into the steps - Krill pellet bags, plastic sandwich tubs, Quaver crisp packets, bounty wrapper, plastic Coke bottles etc etc. These were not here on the 24th October when I fished last time, so this was the past week, 25th to the 30th. Shameful behavior. Don't worry I took your rubbish home!

Booking Office Note: Thank you for clearing up after other people. Often its the few that spoil it for the many.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 7 Chub

same as day before , except not a bite to be had, all methods put into practice

No fish caught!! Heavy frost and bright conditions and low river level

8 x grayling 12-16 inches, Grayling Steel Blue, Red Tag, Sturdy's Fancy. Another very cold day for October, in fact minus 3 and a hard white frost when I arrived, so I went to the cafe for a second breakfast and came back when the sun had warmed things up slightly. River very low and clear. A few grayling were now rising and large dark olives in evidence after lunch so dry flies could be used. By 3 the temperature was rapidly falling again and no more surface action , so in a sense it was like a March day in reverse. What a pleasure to fish a well-maintained beat with stiles all in good order and benches overlooking every pool!

8 Grayling

No fish , no sign of fish , Waste of Time and money !!!!

First visit to the Wye. River running low and clear making conditions very tough. Used pellets, meat and maggots. Just 1 pull towards the end of the day resulting in a Chub of 3 lb 10 oz. Delightful stretch. Lovely scenery. Colin, the bailiff, was helpful but on this day conditions came out on top.

We stayed at Falcon House at How Caple. Excellent B&B. We dined at The Moon in Mordiford - good quality, down to earth, food.

1 Chub

When we arrived c.9:30 it was minus 4 celsius with a stunningly beautiful hard frost. The river was low and clear. The fish were elusive. Late morning MT had three good sized Grayling up to 1.5lb towards the top of Abernant Stream fishing spiders with a weighted nymph on the point. He picked up several more Grayling further down stream during the early afternoon.

We were both fishing the lower end of Lady Alexander's Catch at 3:30 feeling very cold and contemplating an early finish when things took an expected and quite inexplicable twist. Twenty seven fish were caught in the space of an hour. All but one were out of season trout ranging from .5 to 1.5lbs. At one point we seemed to be making contact with a fish on every cast as we put lines across to the trees and allowing the flies to drift down and across the main stream. The weighted nymphs accounted for most of the fish with a Jon Barnes, barbless 'Black Magic Nymph' proving to be almost irresistible. Quite why remains something of a mystery. We saw the occasional fish feeding sub-surface but nothing spectacular and there had been nothing of a hatch all day. Perhaps there was a concentration of terrestrials washing through on fallen leaves.

Boy it was cold!

24 Trout, 8 Grayling