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X3 rods here today & X 2 chub caught. Not the best day. Conditions looked ideal on the Wye this week with most fish feeding, except the barbel! Water temp. 46, high and dropping, nice colour. This beat usually produces so not sure why the whiskers weren't interested!

2 Chub

2 Barbel

6 Chub

River falling and colour dropping out, looked ideal, but very slippery banks made fishing, especially landing fish, difficult. All fish, bar one small chub, taken on pellet, the other on caster. Finished early to watch rugby ;-)

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

First outing of the season and what a great day it was. Started about 9am, temp was at 10c and rising, light wind and overcast. Water at a good height and running clear. Started off with upstream nymphs, cased caddis on point and small ptn on dropper and within the first hour I had taken three lovely 12 to 14" feisty fish. A few missed and dropped fish over the next hr or so before a trickle hatch of LDO started to come off. As I was deciding on my next approach, "Bang!" rod doubles over and reel starts to scream as a fish ran hard upstream. As it leaped out the water I could see it was around the 4lb mark. 10 to 15 mins later I finally got it to net and what a lump it was measuring approx 23,24" and in perfect condition. After a short break and to catch my breath I changed over to dry olive pattern and took another 3 lovely fish. As the hatch finished about 1pm I decided to call it a day on a high. Picture of fish sent to Facebook page.

7 Trout

8 Trout

Lovely day back on this fantastic beat. The water was fairly high with a little colour. Weather was overcast and some light drizzle but often bright too. One smashing little brownie of around a pound taken under the bridge on a gold headed hare's ear.

1 Trout

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Trout

After hard and successful yards the previous day at Ashford, a couple of late morning hours witnessed the first magical rise of the season for me of trout to olive. 2.5 fish caught on olive emerger.

2 Trout