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Second day of two day trip. River still very low and clear. Trotting with maggots produced some nice dace and some reasonably sized chub. All the barbel were relatively small, although a larger fish was lost just as I packed up. All the barbel were caught on the feeder with long hook links with pellets as bait.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub, 20 Other

Lovely beat, good water. Easier fishing down the bottom of the beat, less trees. Don't agree it is OK for waders. I only fished an hour and then I suffered a cut at the back of the ankle in my waders (had them 40 odd years with never a leak) and it is too deep in a lot of pools for them anyway, so I will definitely use chest waders next time with my studded boots on. Plenty of fish rising but couldn't tempt one with a small klinkhammer, no good Czech nymphing either.

4 on bubble and worm, 2 on spinner.

6 Trout

Guests ticket oap, 6 fish !!!!!!!!!! All on spinner.

6 Trout

Blank for salmon. A surprise from a chub of a good 5 pounds which saw fit to take a small Bann Shrimp. Resident fish were showing in Dog Hole and Upper Lines, as you might expect. An interesting chat to Mick Sutton, who gillies here and who has done some useful access work, which is much appreciated. At this water level, today was a very long shot. However, I had a wash-off from the first week of the season so I thought I would use it rather than lose it. And it's always interesting to fish through pools at low levels. Easy to ford the river on tail of Windmill on this occasion.

3rd day of a 3 day visit to the Wye, first 2 days on How Caple Court were difficult. 1st time on this venue and what an introduction. Perfect weather, heavy cloud most of the day. Started 1st thing on the far bank 2nd swim and had a 6lb barbel first cast, nothing further for the next 2 hours so moved to the road side bank and fished the last swim below the rapids. Caught chub and barbel consistently for the rest of the day.
Finished up with 5 barbel (best of 8lb 12ozs) and 8 chub (best fish of 4lb 4ozs). All fish caught on feeder tactics with pellets. Fantastic days fishing.

5 Barbel, 8 Chub

Hard day as expected with river low. Fed hemp and caster. Managed two decent chub and lost one barbel to a hook pull. Not many fish showing really either.
A bit of a gripe... I removed a few bits of angling origin litter up the top end, including a discarded barbed hook. One of my chub was gut hooked with someone else's line coming out of it..I ended up cutting the line. Meanwhile my barbless hook had fallen out in the net. I didn't get my ticket checked and I'd be happy to have my gear checked to ensure compliance.
Canoe traffic was light but a party in the afternoon made up for it. I always make myself visible when I see them coming and in the past have had polite canoeists go right over the other side to minimise inconvenience. No such luck. These decided to come towards me a third of the way across. Rising above it I wound in to avoid my line being touched and was ignoring them as they came right in front saying something about "Mr Fisherman" so I suggested they could have gone over the other side. This prompted a comment I didn't hear which was met with laughter before they carried on splashing around, shouting and hooting on top of about 10 quids worth of bait. I assume they had hired them as they looked the canoeing equivalent of "noddies" and hope the hire company can better instill good practice in customers in future. I am sure some canoeists are just oblivious and mean no particular harm but the "we don't care" attitude of this group was frustrating.

2 Chub

River low, all caught in fast runs on weighted nymphs. No joy or interest on the dry. All fish 5-12 inch. Pleasant days fishing.

5 Trout, 8 Grayling

Arrived about 9 am, same hot sunny conditions as at Lower Carrots yesterday. It wasn't until mid/late afternoon that we were rewarded with 3 Barbel - 9.5 lb,10 lb,and 11 lb plus 1 eel. All caught on meat, fish weren't interested in pellets.

3 Barbel, 1 Other

It will be good to see the rain this weekend!

5 Barbel, 7 Chub