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Weather overcast with showers with a warm South Westerly breeze, river in good condition. Moderate canoe traffic, all respectful of my presence. Fished from mid-day in to the evening. After seven hours of intense concentration, three eels!!!!

3 Other

1 Trout

Lovely here but water very low. Not much insect life and only a few trout rising. Fish very easily spooked.

Rivers conditions were good. Fished from 10:00 until and dusk. Great day. Always good to fish the Wye.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Fly, river low, two very small fish (less than 1lb) caught in the evening.

2 Trout

Another memorable day.

18 Barbel, 8 Chub

This has to be the most beautiful river I have ever seen. The flow was very good, and wading a bit tricky, but of the entire beat, I think I only fished 400 yds. I started downstream of the caravan park. The day was overcast, with a little wind and very light spat of drizzle. I caught fish between 12 and 16 inches beside the browns that were around 7 or 8 inches. Browns were sitting at the tails of the main flow and the Grayling at the head just after the riffle. I have never caught Grayling before so I had such a treat. Hatches happening the whole day and I fished brown, dun and tan parachutes on 6x. Most of the fish took the dry but a few on HE nymph and black emerges. This river is worth travelling 10,000km for, no question.

2 Trout, 24 Grayling

Similar results to last week on the same beat (I did submit a return but for some reason not posted). River very slightly tinged and just above summer level.
Most fish taken on weighted nymphs, some under an indicator to allow for change of depth, and some New Zealand Style. Later in the day fish started to pick off my Brown Elk Hair Segde with real vigour.
Average size of grayling good, around 12 inches with a few up to 17 inches. Few trout showing but managed 3, including one beautifully marked fish at 16 inches. Excellent day's sport, all returned.

3 Trout, 35 Grayling

Afternoon into evening fishing session - 3.00 pm -8.30 pm. Usual spot didn't produce much, so had to try several swims. Water quite stained, so hard to see weedbeds and features. CT 4 barbel to 9lb and 5 chub. LR 2 barbel and 1 chub. Unusually fishing didn't switch as it got dark.

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

River conditions were good, running about a constant 12" over on the gauge. Not an easy start to the day, we commenced fishing about 6:45am opposite the mouth of the Lugg and after two and a half hours we hadn't even had a tremble on the rod tops so we moved further upstream and during the rest of the day my fishing buddy caught two barbel and two bonus chub from the slower, deeper water by the hut. Meanwhile I tried various swims up and down the beat until eventually, late into the afternoon I located a good barbel holding area in some faster water running along the opposite bank. From there I caught an additional chub to complement the two I had caught from elsewhere on the beat, plus what I had really been after, six barbel.
Of the fish that we caught between the two of us, the five chub we caught weighed in at around 2.1/2 to 3.1/2 lbs each and the barbel all weighed from about 4 lbs. to just under 8 lbs. each.
This was a lovely stretch that we enjoyed fishing very much. Getting the car down to the river-side was no problem as long as you take it steady. As regards the fishing, you can access the whole of the stretch from the well maintained, east to fish bank-side.
Many thanks to WUF.......We will be back next month!..

8 Barbel, 5 Chub