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Dropping quite quickly and quite coloured but fishable. Some of the bankside growth "escaping" especially Signal Pool and below on this extremely pretty piece of water

First time on this stretch and it was pushing through following the earlier rain and very coloured. We wandered the stretch trying to locate some fish, but to now avail. Loved the stretch and will return at some stage.

Fished from 11 till 430 when river started to rise quickly.Most fish caught in wood section.

7 Barbel, 9 Chub, 5 Other

Caught 1 Shad

1 Chub, 1 Other

A tough day. River was very high and half a forest was washing down it. Most spots were inaccessible and was only able to fish in the margins out of any flow at all. First 6 hours were fruitless but around 1 pm a small knock resulted in the water erupting more than it already was. A fantastic fight ended in a perfectly conditioned exact 9lb Barbel - a Wye PB. No further knocks or runs until 6pm when managed a 4lb chub. Not seen the river this high before - it certainly changes quickly, as through the course of the day it had dropped over 2ft

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Had an excellent day at this gem of a lake, was a fairly strong wind when I turned up about midday, with intermittent rain, fished the roadside shore, in two various locations, and managed to catch two cracking brownies, both about twelve inches in length. One took my home tied clan chief variant, the other my Bibio variant, good solid takes, and superb fish, both released back into the lake. Did have a few nervous plucks on the flies in the latter part of the day, but due to the incoming heavy rain, called it a day about sevenish. Superb location, shall be back very soon, hoping that we get some kind of a summer, and I can fish some dry fly patterns.

2 Trout

Unfortunately the amount of rain from the day before made the river unfishable. The beat does look good, but with an 18 inch rise in the river over a short time period there was no way even to spin

3wbt to 9" all on gold bead GRHE

3 Trout

A few fish at the start of the day, then 5 foot of rising flood water made things difficult!

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Got there about 6ish in the morning and the river looked good, but about 2 hours later there was about 4 foot of extra water running through with a lot of debris coming down. As this stretch is on the outside of the bend it was fairly dangerous as my friend nearly got hit by a massive tree that was was flowing through (i wouldn't even try going into the wooded area as you'll either collapse climbing the hill to go round it or you'll fall in when in there are there are no pegs on this stretch that are really accessible). I was informed by a local who was walking their dog that the other side of this stretch was day ticket for £7 and had pegs cut out to fish, and then about half an hour later 4 really loud brummies turned up and then that was the perfect time to call it a day as I couldn't bear listening to them shout to eat other from peg to peg. I don't think I'll be paying a visit to this stretch again and if i do I'll be paying the £7 to fish the other bank as it has better swims. Think the swim could produce a good days fishing if there was no flood water running through and also if no one else was fishing the other bank.

1 Chub