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Another tough day, the river here is really low with very little flow, not helped by three abstraction pumps doing there best to empty the river. We only fished the morning and thought the storm in the night may have freshened things up a little, not to be. We struggled to get any interest in baits at all and the four chaps on the opposite bank had nothing either, and they were using maggots, I thought they weren't allowed until September 16th??? Although the fishing was tough, we all had a great time and thanks go to the Wye & Usk for opening up these fantastic places to fish.

WUF note - Maggots, pupae or non-aquatic larvae can only be used between 15th September and 14th March (inclusive). No fish roe or crayfish baits.

1 Chub

Caught chub to 1lb, dace and bleak steadily all afternoon on the waggler. Expected the barbel fishing to be hard and was proved right by a biteless couple of hours in the evening.

35 Chub, 20 Other

One chub to trotted pellet.

1 Chub

Hoped I would see some more water in the river after the lightning storms we had in Worcestershire the day before, but the level was still very low and the cloud cover quickly burnt off to produce another hot, bright day. Sporadic rises from fish through the beat, but tough to find a consistent riser during the day. Picked up a couple of little brownies on leaded nymphs in the deeper pools but struggled with the dry fly until dusk. Fish started rising properly as the light faded and had another 4 fish best about 1/2 pound on a small klinkhammer fished in a couple of the faster glides at the top of the beat.
Saw two of the fattest Kingfishers I have ever seen which are obviously feasting on the large numbers of Parr in the shallows. Unfortunately the beat was disturbed by illegal canoeists who despite my explaining the situation, did not leave, but were at least polite and apologetic.

6 Trout

40cm in length.

1 Chub

Fished the woods from 7am to 5pm. Barbel remained elusive on this trip but managed to get 5 chub, best 5lb 6oz.

5 Chub

VL - who had booked the fishing couldn't come so only 1 rod fishing. River very low, but there was some cloud today which helped. Caught barbel to 8lbs by dropping in here and there.

8 Barbel

Largest fish was chub of 4lbs. Grayling to 1.5lbs. Trout to 1.25lbs. River very low but fish shoaled in streamier well oxygenated runs.

8 Trout, 12 Grayling, 1 Chub, 22 Other

10 chub between us in 9 hours on pellet and meat. River was drastically low. Only managed to find 2 accessible swims after nearly 2 hours searching because of surface weed and overgrown bankside. Very disappointed with the venue. Wont be going back.

10 Chub

River very low and gin clear, weather extremely hot. Hottest day of the year apparently. 1 barbel taken on the quivertip from behind the island. 2 chub lost on the stick trying to bully them out from a nearside snag. Very hard work. A couple of nice carp with their backs out of the water off the island. Nice stretch of river but like all rivers at the minute in desperate need of water.

1 Barbel