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First time on this beat, so not sure what to expect. Beautiful location, easy to find, great to be able to park mid way. Low water, with a few deeper sections. But looking at the height of the banks the river obviously gets a lot deeper! Water was clear, but it was such a dark and overcast day that it was very difficult to see anything. And the weather! The rain came early. Really heavy rain. I was totally drenched by about noon. I was thinking of packing it in, but just carried on... and I'm glad I did.
I found the lower half up to the bridge to be tricky to fish, with lots of slower water, and not many features. I felt a bit lost here. It was only the last 50m up to the half way bridge that the water sped up and had some movement. One out of season WBT here. Note: this small section is part of a small caravan camping ground (empty now) that might be busy during the summer months.
From the bridge upstream was much better fishing. You still had to find the spots, but there were some interesting features. Missed a few and then some more WBT, and eventually a couple of Grayling. Fished a nymph off a Klinkhammer indicator.
The upper weir section was big and looked interesting. I did fish it a bit, but I was wet and ready to go by then!
It is a nice beat, but there are a lot of fallen trees blocking sections and making casting really tricky. I lost a lot of nymphs stuck up trees, a six foot rod would have been more suitable than my 8'.

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

River Level Low. Raining all day. Only fised about 3 hours.

5 Barbel

First time on the beautiful Whitney Court stretch with such varied water, so spent as much time on foot as with rod and line . Once fishing, first of pre-baited swims produced a chub after 20 minutes on two 10mm spicy shrimp boilies, this initial success and overcast skies suggesting more to come. But this is the enigmatic Wye and fishing, if predictable, as we know is not fishing. So I will definitely be back, if only for an alfresco picnic at those handily placed bench tables beside the Stable Block, looking over the river and dreaming of Barbus maximus!

1 Chub

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

temperture dropping seemed to put the fish off
not a bite packed up at 12 o clock the noise of the water pump spoils the fishing

3 trout caught, with toby spinners..

3 Trout

We caught 19 Barbel to just under 8lbs & 14 Chub to 4 1/2lbs.

19 Barbel, 14 Chub

22 Grayling