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On a low clear Wye after just a couple of fish on a day ticket water the day before, we were prepared for a hard day. This is a beautiful stretch and a nice drive to the river bank parking. We spread along the beat in the morning from the van stone pool to the Rope pool and mainly fished pellet and hemp through block end feeders and had nothing on pellet at all. One good chub to float fished maggot was all we had to show for our efforts up till about 1.30. Pete was fishing the downstream stretch and had persevered in the same swim all day when he eventually had a good barbel on blockend with maggot, after spending most of the morning on pellet. The rest of us followed suit in our own swims and what followed was truly great fishing. Before packing up at 5 pm we had 19 barbel to just under 8lb and another 3 good chub. The fish were in excellent condition and fought well , especially in the swims rife with streamer weed. Pete also had a 1lb trout in his bag of 9 barbel. Perhaps the fish just came on at that time and we would have caught on pellet but we were happy to catch on maggot.
An earlier entry stated that few swims were available. Apart from Luggsmouth where the whole bank is walkable I would say this stretch has got more than enough swims (with the added bonus of no far bank anglers)and we tried most of them

1 Trout, 19 Barbel, 4 Chub

12 lb Cock fish from beat 3, taken on the smallest fly in his box. Well done Jim

1 Salmon

River low and clear , R Thomas had 1 barbel 8lb 2 and a perch around a pound in the slow water third field down from bend, enjoyable day fantastic wildlife; pellet / sweet corn used, triple corn hookbait caught barbel, worm for perch as we left at 7 pm a few barbel started topping, and flashing opposite the building with scaffold on it would be worth staying a bit later and fishing there, unfortunately 7 pm was the latest Mr Richards would pick us up and didn't fancy the walk back to the car park area!

1 Barbel, 1 Other

5lbs and coloured. On a red Ally's Shrimp.

1 Salmon

River low and clear with floating weed and fallen leaves a bit of a nuisance. Started in Boys Rocks at 1.00 pm but had not a touch until 4.00 pm when I moved to a swim downstream until dusk. Same result! Neither barbel nor chub interested in pellet or meat. Some maggots might have been useful. Oh well, I guess we all have a bad day now and then!

Seven and a half pound fish to Peter Gibbon from the Corner Gutter.

1 Salmon

Several fish showing but failed to tempt anything.

Fly cone head Garry Dog 8lbs

1 Salmon

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All on fly. Gold head damsel fly.

6 Trout