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6 Barbel

Second day on this beat, tried the hut peg to start with, after an hour with no enquiries, moved round into the wood. Fished the lucky stone in the hope of avoiding the chub, but a repeat of the previous days sport followed.
The problem with this peg being the large rocks on the riverbed, when a barbel was hooked the hook link was invariably cut, seven barbel hooked three landed. The Wye tackle fairy took six of my feeders!
The chub were very prolific, at 7.30pm after 36 chub decided a pint was more appealing than another chub. Thanks WUF 2 great days sport.

3 Barbel, 36 Chub

Very hot. River low. Beautiful day wading in the river.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Baking hot day and the fishing was very hard!

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

I fished this lovely pool but caught nothing. After about 2 hrs I felt like a Kentucky fried chicken. No cloud, hot Sun, but the plus side was that I saw 3 Salmon rising on the far bank outside of my casting range. No excuses, if fish are in the pool they can be caught. (But not by me on this occasion )
To whom it may concern - rain please.

Few dry takes, but all caught on nymph and released safe without removing from the water. very low water and clear. Access to the river has been made easier, thanks

3 Trout

Being regretfully time poor for fishing at his time of year I grabbed the opportunity today of a few hours on the water. Not an ideal day to be fishing , hot ( at last ) low water ( a pity ) and a late start 11.30 did not promise much. Hard going ,although fish were feeding on the surface they were very spooky and selective . Summer growth on the banks is at the max and getting a fly to the shady spots is a challenge. All the fish I saw were feeding in very shallow water at the heads of the pools and I had no success prospecting the bottom with nymphs. 1 x 12 ½ " trout to a size 18 para Adams.....finished at 3.30pm.

1 Trout

No rush to the river today, 26 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. We did a bit of peregrine falcon spotting at Yat Rock and were fortunate to time it just right to see three of them in the air at the same time for quite a while. Pub lunch followed at the Saracens at Symonds Yat East to fuel us for the fishing.

We arrived at the river and started at 4pm til 10pm. Using 10mm pellets straight to a bomb with loose fed pellets. The odd ball of groundbait thrown in if we felt it needed it. No feeders.

Fishing close in so all bites were rod wrenchers as we got them feeding well. 22 nice barbel in the 6lb to 8.5lb range with just one chub to spoil the party.

Birds down the river today, little egret, swallows, swifts, sand martins, house martins, tawny owl to name a few.

Heaven!

22 Barbel, 1 Chub

I tend not to fish Lyepole until later in the year but, with low rivers and indifferent fishing all around, I was fast running out of ideas. Arrived de bonne heure, to be greeted by painfully low river with little flow and, unless you count algae, no colour. Not that the fish appeared to mind; while I cannot quite claim the 51 that our friend from June 29th landed (can I even count up to 51?), I was not far short. Let's call it 40 shall we.

Upstream to a deafening silence, punctuated only by birdsong and the murmuring of the river, in the morning; with fish in just about every run that I covered. Surprised to find the Grayling shoaled up so early in the season but, two of the glides (and anyone who knows their Lyepole will surely work out which two) each produced double figures ; for the most part, peas in pod - so much so that I could have been forgiven for thinking I was catching the same fish over and over again. Less productive downstream in the afternoon. Mind you, it was very hot by then (28C). A few straggler Mayfly hatching; but very little surface activity, with all of my fish coming on weighted nymphs.

Most of the Grayling were in the 7 to 8 inch bracket, with half a dozen or so bigger fish - including two at around 14 inches (that's nearly 2lb in old money). Trout from 6 inches to 10 inches.

A summers day at Lyepole, and all's well with the world ...

10 Trout, 30 Grayling

River was low and the day hot; not ideal conditions for fishing. Started off with a roving approach from first light picking up a couple of decent chub. Spent much of the time later in the day in the swim just upstream from the fishing hut. A few decent fish were holding up there in the faster, deeper water and things looked promising; however they proved difficult to tempt using a variety of approaches (swim feeding pellet, legered meat, float etc). Managed a couple of barbel up to 5lb and a few small chub, however the bigger fish proved illusive. Really enjoyed the day despite the slow fishing. Its a lovely stretch of river with lots of decent fish and interesting swims. We will definitely return another day when conditions are more favourable.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 1 Other