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Not a salmon in sight.

Great end to the season, good weather, good fishing had three barbel best 7ib 12oz and a trout on halibut pellet from midday until last light.

1 Trout, 3 Barbel

The wind from the previous day had disappeared (thankfully) but brilliant blue skies and bright sunshine lead me to a late start thinking that dusk would be the time. Took a leisurely stroll along the whole stretch and being able to see the surface and read the water we found a nice looking spot towards the top (pretty long hike). Cast out about 13:00 just to get some bait in but caught consistently until 17:00 when we thanked the river for it's generosity and walked away happy but beaten up (up and down very steep banks, heavy and absolutely turbocharged Barbel). Proper fishing that only the Wye can provide. Magic.

15 Barbel, 3 Chub

Nice looking stretch with plenty of variety. Fishing was very poor today, only a few bites to the 2 of us, 1 chub caught, barbel lost as light faded. Would fish this stretch again.

1 Chub

Only 2 of us fished today due to work problems for the other 2 booked in. 4 barbel caught by one of us, blank for the second rod.

4 Barbel

2 x trout 15 inches and 19 inches, Waterhen Bloa. Many thanks to owner Barry Paraskevas for inviting me to try for a salmon. However, this was not to be, although I did get a long slow pull in the Rock pool. Still, the casting practice was good and this beat has an interesting variety of pools to try. After lunch, the LDOs showed up, so I dug out the trout rod and got a lovely brace of fish on spiders which made my day. A pleasantly warm afternoon, with no wind for a change.

2 Trout

Beautiful stretch of the Wye, fast water but quite shallow below the bridge giving an ideal spot to chest wade and present the fly in the water.
You can fish this beat in less than 2 hours. I combined this with my day at Backney to supplement my day.
Thank you.

Afternoon on the river on a glorious spring day, no salmon seen but river looked good. Hearing of all the action in Hereford it shouldn't be long before they will offer them selves up anywhere on the river.
Message to self, put the trout rod in next time, lunchtime was alive with trout rising to a half decent hatch of olives, 14:30 onwards till 16:00. Spring is here today but possibly gone tomorrrow.

3 barbel to 7lb ish. Great beat, fish in top condition. Back on June 16th!

3 Barbel

4 stock trout in fine condition all caught on worm on warm sunny day on the Usk reservoir!

4 Trout