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Second day on the same stretch, much tougher today, bright sunshine and the fish were few and far between, still a beautiful stretch of river, well managed, and plenty of swims to choose from, all in all an excellent weekend!

2 Chub

Struggled to get a bite for most of the day in the bright sunshine. Roved around quite a bit to no avail so decided to settle into a swim, get some bait out, and hope they started feeding in the evening. They did and for the last hour it was a bite a chuck. Biggest barbel was 9.5lb and the chub was over 4lb. Nice stretch, plenty of swims can be a bit noisy with the pump etc. and you do get fisherman on the other bank. One of my favourite stretches though and will definitely be returning.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Very hard day on our favourite stretch of river, up until lunch thought we were going to have our first blank ever there, river was high, coloured and rose during the day, Lucky Stone (our favourite swim) was virtually submerged. The weed is still prevalent but is at a stage where you can pull out of it. Whoever goes next they can thank us for dredging the river for them !
Anyway, a fin perfect barbel and chub saved our blushes.
One phenomenon we did witness for the first time in nearly forty years of fishing was somebody actually swimming along the Wye, she was very pleasant and said hello but I can think of better things to do on a Sunday !

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 anglers. It is really a beautiful beat. 6 +40cm graylings and a superb 53cm trout.

7 Trout, 21 Grayling

Lovely water on the lower beat where I spent all day. Doing a reccy for potential fishing next year and would like to return. Caught one small sea trout.

1 Sea Trout

Did not fish, water in Barle so headed south.

4 Barbel

2 Chub

Fantastic day in great surrounding. Weather and water conditions were perfect. Plenty of fly life from mid morning onwards. bwo and various types of caddis with the large cinnamon sedge being the most prominent. 20+ grayling caught, but to be honest it could've been double this as I just stopped counting at 20. A good dozen of them on heavy nymphs and remainder on a reddish brown size 12 parachute. I believe I hooked either a very large trout or a small salmon at the tail of a deep pool. It was on for about 2/3 mind before it throw the hook. Tail looked too sharp for a trout, but I will never know. Great fun on a 3wt rod. Great day thank you.

1 Trout, 20 Grayling

1 Barbel, 2 Chub