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River up six feet over night and rising. Having never visited this stretch before it made swim selection diffficult as they were all under water. Tons of weed and rubbish coming down. Settled on the only slackwater available. One Barbel of 7lb caught on pellet and one lost.

2 browns to 9" + 12" Grayling. 1 salmon parr 5" approx.

4 WBT to ¾lb

4 barbel to 7lb. Just 1 chub

Arrived early full of anticipation for our first trip to the Wye this year ,only to find the river up by about 3 foot and pushing through. So the next stage was to find 4 fishable swims, so having walked the beat we all settled into the middle section. So out with the bait dropper and in with the hemp followed by the pellets. The fishing was very slow to start, but as ever with barbel fishing when you are not paying attention to your rod you are at risk of losing it (pouring a cup of tea), the rod was hooping over and I was quickly greeted by my first wye barbel for the year in pristine condition and weighing between 6-7lbs. By the end of the day I managed 11 barbel and numerous chub, best fish went 8-14 with 3 others over 8 as well. I do believe the volume of hemp put in helped keep the fish in the swim and the hook bait was nothing larger than 8mm .

9 x trout 6 - 9 inches, on a small Humpy. After a wet night, and after some scurrying about, the only brook I could find running clear was the one on my doorstep! Forest streams don't flood readily.

12 barbel to 7lbs and 7 chub to 3lbs between the three of us. Rising river after overnight rain.

6 x Brown Trout caught ranging from 8oz to 1lb 2oz. 4 returned safely all ranging from 8oz to 1lb, 2 x taken - 1 x 1lb 2oz, 1 x 1lb. Fish all caught on Dry Fly, 4 caught on Klinkhammer, 2 caught on small damsel fly.

River increasingly fast running due to heavy rains day before but generally v good fishing. Area to south of bridge hard to access and most fishing done to the north of road bridge.

What a wonderful length. Quite a long stretch but you can drive along and park at the river side in good conditions. Some scary looking bulls but didn't cause a problem. Weather was good and caught steadily through the day.
Finished with 10 barbel, most around the 5lb mark but did have a 7 5 and a 9 1.

The swims with some flow seemed to produce fish. I was expecting more canoe traffic and the ones I saw were very well meaning. Love to come back.

Fishing Saturday the 25th we found the river up and colored but settled in to swims that have produced for us in previous seasons. The fishing proved to be quite challenging almost as much as some of the canoe parties that passed by. Making subtle changes to location and presentation did pay off and the barbel were begrudgingly coming to our nets. Finishing Saturday with around a dozen barbel, a chub and some eels for good measure between two rods. Returning on Sunday 26th our concern was on the forecast for bright sunshine and temperatures close to 30 but this was before we saw that the river had come up over night by a good 3ft and was transporting large trees out to sea! My previous swim was now in the river and hopes of fish were slim. We stuck it out and some how did manage to land the odd barbel, the biggest just shy of 9lb, at times in mad fishing conditions.