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Only had four hours to wet a line on the lovely Court of Noke beat , again warm when I turned up at eight , although not as hot as a few days ago . . . . Only about 23 positively cold !!!!

Did rig up the six foot two weight with a small Parachute Adams , but no real interest to be honest , and after a couple of pools and likely runs , went for a single tungsten pan which seemed to be more favourable and picked up a fish quickly prospecting the little nymph in likely trouts places !!!

One fish was on for a while and gave me a right run around , good strong fish , must have been fifteen inches , he did clear the water twice , half way up the beat in that deep pool that meanders to the left , absolute cracker , but with the barbless hook was off after a twenty second tussle , oh well nice little scrap though . . . .

All the fish today were very healthy and the usual Arrow stamp between five and twelve inches , was nice just mooching upstream slowly , I did not go right up to the start of the beat , three quarters perhaps . I did , on two occasions swap the nymph for a dry CDC , but couldn't get any interest , which was a shame . . So back on with the nymph to cover the last two hundred yards , were I picked up another two fish both again tubby and displaying the lovely Arrow colouration , a fun three and a half hours sport , five beauties caught and released , water clarity is absolutely clear as gin , and again like the Kington beat very very low , roll on a bit of rain . . .
May possibly have some this week , and thunderstorms so they say , that will be a blessing , back soon to this varied fun beat , happy days . . . . . . . . . . . .

5 Trout

Didn’t fish today after three frustrating days on the wye. Think we need to wait for some rain.

A nice short walk to the river found it low and clear. Fished from 6 til 3, taking all the fish on centre pin trotted corn and luncheon meat alternating between 2 swims. All the fish were in good condition, bar for a few lice which were removed. A couple of the barbel were around the 1lb mark, the rest were between 5 and 7lb. Thank you Wye and Usk for a fabulous day on the river.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other

River very low, clear and weedy. 10 hours fishing for a few small fish to show between 2 of us. Fortunately not many canoea which made a nice change..Nice day out though none the less.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Great evenings fishing approx. 6:30pm. Water very low and warm. Waded across to access beat. All dry fly/ para Adams, caddis Caught one within first half hour and then nothing until evening rise came on around 10pm. Biggest fish shy of 2lbs. A lot of dog walkers/ disturbed nicest riffle which was a shame.

8 Trout

Only fished the top stretch for a couple of hours due to there being an England football match on, which we did even win!!

3 Chub

Another dour day with low water and blanketweed and very little activity except for canoes. Only one bite at dusk produced a barbel for Rich. Its a lovely stretch that can produce surprises but is also moody and badly needs a bit of rain. We only ventured out early and late and can recommend the Royal Spring invention Lane for lunch. Any barbel caught need very careful handling in these conditions and sadly some evidence that anglers upstream hadn't got this concept which is a pity. Perhaps a cessation of all fishing until water temperature drops WUF? I understand salmon fishing has already ceased out of concern for fish.

1 Barbel

River very very low and bright sunshine only fish for 3 hours tried trotting and the feeder

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another good days fishing for the conditions.

2 Barbel, 25 Chub

Pegs on this stretch had to be cleared of vegetation before we could fish. Access to pegs is difficult and in wet weather would be dangerous . We also came across peg s full of litter but realise this is problem caused by anglers.We felt that the price paid to fish this section of the Wye was very poor value. This fishing was poor with 3 anglers all blanking but this due to hot weather spell