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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

No fish, river extremely low, could see the bottom in most places!

All grayling came to Czech nymphs fished duo. Rained heavy a.m, once it stopped the fish became active. All grayling between 9-14 inches and one oos trout at 14 inches.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling

Water low and clear fish caught near rocks on pellet

4 Barbel

Water level very low and very clear, fished for 2 days for 1 bite. barbel of 71/2lb. We put it down to water conditions rather than our abilities as we have had some very good days on this beat before. on the plus side we stayed at the local Old Court hotel which we would recommend, the prices, the service and the food all excellent.

1 Barbel

Arrived geared up to try for the barbel - but conditions were not promising; river very low and extremely clear. Managed to sight chub between the streamer weed runs and touch legered cheese paste; with some stealth and perseverance managed to bag a couple.

2 Chub

I had been looking forward to trying this beat for the first time, always excited by previous catch returns from other anglers but then again this is the Wye and have too often been left frustrated by this beautiful river. And so I was again with AB to witness on his second trip up here to try for the Grayling. One brown trout took a pink shrimp and the Grayling preferred a silver beaded black and red nymph( this was to prove the fly of the weekend) fished as a pair up stream. Also lost a clunker in shallow water before the first fall at the top of the beat leaving ripples of water at the scene in the aftermath that could be seen for some time. There are some fish people catch that have their photograph taken, I think if I'd netted whatever this fish was I would have had it painted in oils! Gutted.

Lovely stretch of river but no fish unfortunately. River was very low and clear.

Two fish caught on worm with popup.

2 Trout