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A hard but enjoyable day on a lovely stretch of the Wye best barbel was 6 04

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Sliding ledger

Due to a problem at work me fishing mate was called in. I found the river very low and clear as expected. The first frost of the year didn't help along with a bright day. Fished most of the stretch not a bite. That said a very enjoyable day out.

A rather better day than expected after we arrived to find the water so dark, was it the colour of the water or the light this time of year? It certainly didn't look like I remember from a previous visit. The silver beaded black and red nymph was the fly of choice for those caught, ignoring any shrimp pattern teamed with it fished CZ style. All grayling in 11 - 14 inch class, a small but Irfon beautiful oos brownie to hand. All returned with love.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

14 x grayling to 15 inches, 2 x out of season trout to 12 inches. Rained all morning, but sunshine came through about 3 in the afternoon. Pretty hard work, really, still on a very low stream with the bottom covered with slime. Many of the runs too shallow to fish, so worked on the deeper pools. All on heavy nymphs, except for a last fish on the dry fly (Grayling Steel Blue) before finishing.

14 Grayling

1st time on this beat, nice easy access and plenty of swims although when the river is this low we could only find a bit of depth in the 1st field. CH had 4 and I 1 all on the usual pellet feeder method. Would certainly return here with a few more feet of water on. Fish were 5 to just under 8lb.

5 Barbel

The river was low but with some colour the temperature was about 10 C. with a hazy sky. Fished bottom half of this delightful stretch, osbt taking ginger hackled dry fly willingly, but no sign of grayling

4 Trout

2 Trout

No fish caught

Fished all day by the hut in first field but could not get a bite on pellet or meat using feeder... Trotted a float in the afternoon for a couple small Chublets and a 7/8 inches rainbow. Saw 1 Barbel come out to another angler in top field... with no Barbel or decent chub that's my second blank on the Wye this year.. frustrating.... very alarming to see the residents from the house by the hut all afternoon disposing of all their huge cut down tree branches into the river... the rapids down stream where catching all the branches and that lot will play havoc with fishing down stream when they are carried along in higher water..

2 Other