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Evening session at Wyebank, first time on this stretch access really good. River really low and boy was it hot.

Unfortunately no Barbel, Managed to winkle out 6 chub up to 3 1/2lb though mostly on corn.

6 Chub

Just too hot! Nothing caught at all.

Another scorcher of a day so didn't start till 4pm and managed to winkle out a few barbs early on then went very quiet with just the chub nibbling. Fished off the rocks bit and lady in house said we should use a different footpath - not exactly obvious and would appear to involve wading rather than rock hopping!

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Too hot, one nice chub for a lot of effort.

Fished for 2 hours. Low water levels and very bright sunshine, with only a few rises noted, no fish caught.

All were caught using worm fished deep. Weather was very hot.

6 Trout

The fishing was hard going as expected in the sweltering heat and low river levels. We ended up with 11 chub to 3lbs and plenty of dace and chublets on feeder and waggler before retiring early to the pub. This is a lovely beat set in peaceful surroundings with good parking next to the bridge.

Not as productive as Monday but still landed and returned 7 fish, best 12oz, with 5 taken on pheasant tail nymph with lureflash tail, and 2 late on on dry wulff including the largest which smashed the wulff when tweaked across the current below rock. Some good trout come up the streamy bit out of the Chine late on but they are very wary and difficult to get them to take.
Water 19 deg and 0.4m

7 Trout

The Wye was still high, but a day when the dry fly seemed to work better than spiders. A mixed bag of 17 mostly small fish to various patterns. Some modest trout and a few chub which were chasing minnows in a shallow. Pride of place went to three female grayling, each 15 inches and alike as peas in a pod, which in one spot took respectively a Klinkhammer, Orange Otter and a Grayling Steel Blue, all size 16. Every time a fish was caught and returned, the shoal underneath rightly suspected deception and treachery at the surface and would not rise again until the pattern was changed.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling, 5 Chub

What a scorcher! River low, clear and slow but some reward for tolerating the heat.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub