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All fish returned ... Another wonderful afternoon .... Slightly spoiled by the huge pile of burnt tyres on the road towards the lake.

8 Trout

Barbless flies used. One trout caught and released.

1 Trout

Beautiful Day on a stunning beat. Colemans in the morning with lots of fish showing, but I am sure most have seen the contents of many a fly box, so hard going. Worked my way down to Station Stream and got a very gentle take about 30yards down from the steam off the far bank on a size 10 cascade. Decent sized fish, but lost after about a minute, as it was starting to wake up and get grumpy!
Concentrated on Viaduct and Little Oaks in the afternoon, without any joy or signs of fish. Monsoon rainfall ended the day at 7pm.
Many thanks to Joe for sage advice..... can't wait for another visit.

No signs of fish activity. River low.

A lovely day fishing again, just 2 nice barbel 6/7 lbs.

2 Barbel

Fly fishing for salmon. Very little flow to move fly properly. 3 salmon seen, but nothing moved to fly.

3 Trout

I roved the whole stretch after baiting a few swims with cheesepaste, while my mate fished groundbait and pellets in a couple of swims, hoping for barbel.
There was very heavy rain as we arrived mid-morning, and this was enough to make the river rise a couple of inches during the afternoon. The river did fine down again later, but another downpour halted our day at 5.45.
I managed to sneak out a nice chub of 4lb+ on my first cast in the first swim I returned to after baiting-up. After each fish, I moved immediately, and also had a 2lber in the third swim. My tactic was freelining cheesepaste under nearside bushes. Later on, I had 3 more chub, 1 of 12 oz and the other 2 around 4 oz.
My mate only managed 2 small chub, both less than 1lb, and no sightings or bites from barbel.
Interestingly, despite lots of stories about chub taking floating crust, I have never experienced this before, but on Sunday there were fish all along slurping it down. Sadly, they were all deep in snaggy swims. next time I would have to go with chest waders to fish from the river rather than just bank fishing. I think some fantastic chub sport could be on the cards to this approach in the next couple of weeks.

8 Chub

No fish caught, I counted about 22 people fishing and no one as I watched all day caught any fish. The roads are full of pot holes round the reservoir making it harder to drive. Been going here for over 30 years, but not any more.

A very enjoyable 2 days on the river Wye on a very nice beat that is well looked after by Colin who came down to see us a very nice and helpful guy. We did well to catch 44 fish over 2 days considering it was pouring heavy rain most of the day on the Sunday and blue sky brilliant sunshine and very hot on the Monday, can't wait for our next visit.

10 Barbel, 34 Chub

Plenty of fish seen but nothing caught. Heavy canoe traffic after 10.30 until 4.00 only to be expected at this time of year. We'll try again sometime soon.