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I have never seen the river so low - there was so little water most of the canoes that came through ran aground at some point. Caught chub throughout the day, but barbel in fits and starts. Chub from 4lb to just under 6lb with most barbel in the 7 to 8lb range and one double. All the chub were caught on small ellipse pellets glued to the hair with a small open ended feeder filled with ground bait and micro pellets. Most of the barbel fell to 2 x 12ml pellets on the hair and micro pellets in a closed end feeder. Half were fished from the bank, but I eventually got half way across the river and trotted pellets with a small ledger and small pva mesh bags to find the fish. Used my 2 hardy marksman rods alternately - feeder and Avon with 12lb main line, 20lb micro braid hook links and size 10 hooks. As well as being low the water was warm enough to take a bath in - and more weed coming through than I can remember. A very tough day but still one of my favorite Wye and Usk beats.

13 Barbel, 16 Chub

Fished from afternoon until evening for carp using s/corn , l/meat, floating crust, without any luck. Casting to bubblers and to surface fish but they just weren't interested. Lots of fish showing on surface but only saw 1 fish take 1 of the many free offerings. Better luck next time maybe. Thanks to WUF for the easy booking service and for opening up venues such as this one.

Fishing abandoned after 2 hours heavy rain.

What a difference a day makes from full sun to howling storm. The river had lots of visitors from double kayak six man racing teams to a swimmer who swam up and down the river!
Caught three barbel to seven and a half pounds as I had the day before and two chub. All caught late in the day on pellet.
In the middle and lower sections of this stretch there is a need for some additional access to the water.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Day 2 of 4 on WUF. River low. Fished the bottom two pegs from 7am to 11:30am, without a touch on either rod. Torrential rain all morning, which continued throughout the day. When we left at 11:30am, the banks were getting very slippery. Intended to return for an evening session, but the rain continued and we decided that the banks were too dangerous. Disappointing to be beaten by the weather.

The steep banks and recent rain made access to the top end of the beat pretty difficult, although we were clearly informed of this in the description of the beat. Saw a number of salmon jumping but unfortunately failed to tempt a take. Lots of coarse anglers fishing statically in the middle of the beat, so was unable to fish there sadly.

The rain arrived earlier than forecast so we spent long periods cowering under the brollies. River still low. A slightly tougher day than normal but still a pleasure and we managed to catch a few. Most Barbel caught wading / touch ledgering, which I really enjoyed, although the practicalities of netting them whilst most of your body is under water were challenging.

14 Barbel, 9 Chub

My first visit to this beautiful stretch of the river, but no fish today.

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Then the furry poacher, and finally later in the morning a long stream of bubbles crossed the pool I was fishing.

1 Trout

No Salmon Caught or Seen but the river had a slight rise during the day