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0 fish. Water high and very coloured

Rising and cloured river with floating debris made fishing difficult but two rods caught 12 barbel to 8lbs on pellet baits.

Nil return. Water rising and colouring very quickly and waterproofs failing so called it a day after an hour. Beautiful location and with a little less water a good opportunity but beaten by the weather yet again!

A nil return. Between 9am and 2pm continual and heavy rain caused the river to rise dramatically, and so wading became dodgy. Continued to fish, but brown water bashing through meant I called it a day at 2pm. Better luck next time.

1 barbel and 1 chub.

Total catch was 14 Barbel and 4 Chub all caught on pellets from a coloured falling river.
This was our first visit to the Wye and we were very impressed - the fishing was great and the countryside beautiful.

This was a new stretch for us so upon arrival we parked up and walked the beat. The section looked good and for the Wye we felt the access was no worse than we had found anywhere else. Having struggled slightly the day before on a section a few miles up stream we felt that the fishing could be difficult. Thankfully we both managed to land a barbel each within the first hour but as the weather deteriorated the bites slowed. At times it was hard to believe it was August as I sat under my umbrella watching waves with white tops break as a strong up stream wind blow and the rain lashed down. K B's chosen swim of the telegraphs proved to be very snaggy and a lot of feeders were lost although the rewards were a nice catch of several lovely barbel on a miserable day. Would love to see this stretch in Summer trim but not sure when that maybe !!

2 Rainbow Trout caught using worm as bait.

5 Rainbow Trout, 4 caught using worm as bait and 1 on spinning rod.

40+ trout nymphing with the best getting on for 2lb :) Tricky wading, will take a wading staff with me next time.

Cheers Dai / WUF.

WUF note - Wading is tricky in places but predominantly this is one of the easier beats over all to wade.