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14 x trout 6-9 inches on a size 16 Rusty Klinkhammer. Started at 7pm in the evening after a very hot day and just about reached the top of the beat by 10pm. Confidence rather needed restoring this evening after waking up from a singularly unsuccessful night's sewin fishing and a long drive home this morning. Plenty of the little fellows were rising (blue winged olives were the main interest but nothing more technical than a reddish brown klinkhammer was needed to get takes). Altogether a delightful evening during which a kingfisher flew under the rod. There was even time, after casting at the last few rises heard rather than seen in darkness, to make it to the Rising Sun for last orders.

14 Trout

What a lovely stretch of water. When we got to the water the sun was up and it was really hot, fishing was going to be hard for us we thought. We took a look round first before fishing and found that the river was running low. My mate P fished the top end and I decided to fish the very last swim on the beat, road side. I did find it hard to find a swim with a bit of depth in it as the river was running low. The bottom had a few snags in it, large rocks and due to this I lost a bit of tackle. I moved to the middle stretch, to try my hand at a bit of long trotting and ended up with three nice chub of about 4lb. P fished about 100 yards down from the bridge, road side. He had two barbel of about 5 and 7lb with about 9+ chub. All of Paul's fish were caught using the barbel bomb with pellet hook bait. There was not so many snags in P's swim. Considering the weather conditions we didn't do too bad. Parking and access is good. We had a great day many thanks.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub

Not many accessible fishing spots and we struggled in the heat and went up the pub!

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Early start, 2 eels, one very large from the Pumping Station. Later in the day fished what we think was Henrys pool, 5 chub, biggest around 5 pounds and 1 barbel. This is a fantastic looking stretch but needs to be a sign indicating beat start and end. Word of warning the canoes started at around 9.30am and did not stop until 5pm. After fishing the Wye for a long time I feel the canoes are starting to have a negative effect on the fishing. Too many for too long. Having said that will be back again for some of the best chub the UK has to offer.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 2 Other

Only able to fish until 12.00 - No fish caught. Trout rising at 08.00 but not taking on any flies presented. Dry, wet (nymphs etc.) or lures. Wind picked up and expected takes but none forthcoming. Bit disappointing but that's fly fishing!

Conditions were totally against us - hot, bright sunshine and many canoeists. Still, first time fishing Goodrich and sure it would be a lovely beat in the right conditions. Saw a couple of resident fish show in the Vanstone but that was it.

The last part of the beat just 100 metres before the pedestrian bridge has a really big fish.
It jumped just in front of me, one that shout be 40cm.
but I didn't catch that one. Catch and release both fish.

2 Trout

The river was very low and very clear but beautiful none the less. Every pool was dominated by Salmon Parr which beat the trout to the fly every time and left us a little frustrated. I suspect we would have seen more decent trout if we had been around in the evening. In the end we caught five Salmon Parr despite trying not to! Good news for Salmon stocks that there are so many parr in the river, but not so good for trying to catch Trout.

5 Other

Amazing stretch that is not for the weak of limb! Only had a couple of small brownies in the low clear water on dry flies but enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. This deep gorge has a prehistoric feel to it with many fallen trees and a million beautiful ferns. We saw native white claw crayfish in the pools and an interesting variety of bird life. Was slightly concerned to find two guys panning for gold in one of the bigger pools as they seemed to be creating a fair old bit of upheaval. Still they were friendly and polite.

2 Trout

As we were fly fishing we headed for beats at the upstream end of the fishery. However being one of the hottest days of the year so far and being a weekend, we were certainly not alone on the river. Started casting some flies at Biblins crib only to be invaded by a large group of people swimming and generally thrashing about. Too many to confront. Moved down to Cobs cross which was a delight to fish but again interrupted by an amarda of canoes who seemed to gravitate to our lines. No fish seen all day. It was also very bright.