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Another wonderful venue, 2 Monsoon's couldnt dampen our enjoyment. Again plenty of Chub, to mid 4lbs. 7 Barbel to 9lb 6oz, all caught on either pellett or meat. All fish in the best of condition, testament to their wonderful habitat. Again thanks W&U for your help.

A quiet but enjoyable start to a few days on the Wye. Just two barbel (approx 5lb and 6lb - ish) and several chub to about 4lb.

33 x grayling 7-14 inches, 25 x trout 6-13 inches, 1 x small chub. Fishing ahead of predicted heavy rain, this was a rather drizzly cold day with not much rising, and spiders were working much better than dry fly. Although I know very well there are plenty of 16 inch plus grayling on this beat, it was the junior class around 10-12 inches which were mostly putting in an appearance this time. Very acceptable, but not quite needing the net! A couple of heavy trout were lost during the morning. Plus there was an interesting experience on what was literally planned to be the last cast of the day. Using a weighted nymph, I hooked a modest trout from a piece of pocket water, only to have it immediately attacked by what is certainly the largest predatory brown trout I have seen in the Wye. I got a very good view, and there was no doubt about the sinister intentions; the big fellow wasn't just stalking the fish being played, but made three or four attempts to disable it by biting from the tail end as it went back and forth in front of me. When the agressor finally gave up, I got the "prey fish" into the net and measured it as 13 inches exactly.

In marked contrast to the previous day's report I only managed to hook 2 samll Brownies (having used every technique known to man) on PTNs. Perhaps the sultry conditions were playing a part?

Despite the length of the stretch there are very few swims to choose from, however I chose the obvious one and landed 7 barbel to 9lb 6ozs which is my second best from the Wye.
Pellets were the successful bait.

**WUF note** This is a new beat and has not been open to coarse fishing before now - access and swims due to be improved this Autumn.

Grey,overcast morning with showers. Rain cleared through after lunch, with a cool breeze. Very occasional fish showing - three of which we managed to tempt on a size 18 Parachute Adams. We caught five further fish on size 16 tungsten headed PTNs the best of which was just under 3 lbs - the others ranged from 1/2-1lb.
This beat is always a delight to fish with so many varied pools and runs. Most success was from the faster water at the head of the runs.

Arrived to find to river low and clear. We had to work hard for the fish and ended up roving to catch 1 or 2 from each swim before moving. I ended up with 5 barbel upto 6lb and 8 chub all around the 3lb mark, my partner had 4 barbel and 2 chub one of which weighed 5lb 10 so made his day.

Poor result for my first visit, only caught 4 chub biggest about 4 pounds, and one dace. Chub taken on meat, will be booking again but further upstream.

Fish were not really on the feed but managed 8 barbel and 4 chub between us over the 2 days(3 rods in total). Non english speaking poacher found holed out in one of the more overgrown swims. Banks somewhat treacherous with the rain -careful.

A new venue for us all, the barbel didnt show in the numbers previous catch reports had indicated, perhaps we should have concentrated more on the angling than the hearty breakfast prepared by RH on the banks of this lovely spot. Anyway BIG lessons learnt I think for the next time. We will be back! Our returns for day quite a few chub, mostly to pellets, 4lb 10z a PB for its captor one of many in the 1lb - 4lb range. Last but not least the barbel, only 2 landed 4lb & 5lbs, and one of the lessons the writer of this report will take away, don't turn you back on your rod even for a second whilst engaged in this hobby we all love, the 4lb barbel had it in the river in seconds to be precise. Thanks to T for retrieving it. Finally to all you wonderfully patient and understanding people at the W&U Foundation, especially Adam, my apologies for stalking you all weekend, 1st Class service as usual, a real credit to your organisation.