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1.30 p.m. 3rd July. Fresh run silver hen fish 8lbs. on a fly

1 Salmon

9 Trout

Barbel all small about 3lbs

16 Barbel, 23 Chub

6 Barbel, 26 Chub

A first visit to this beat. Low clear water, cool and some drizzle. The fishing was promising to start with, trout taking freely in the rocky glides and channels at the top of the beat but petered out a bit early afternoon. Trout were mainly 7”-10” with a couple of bigger fish caught in the tail of the Edw pool late on. A small hen salmon showed a few times at the top of the beat but she was very coloured and given the conditions, I wouldn’t have cast for her even if I wasn’t on a trout only ticket. The Stone catch fished well but there were quite a few chub around. Lady Alexander’s catch was a little disappointing in the low water conditions but I would definitely return with higher water to fish it for salmon.

Overall, a pleasant day on a very pretty beat but the takes today were lightning fast and I was too slow to convert all the offers that I had to a variety of patterns.

16 Trout, 6 Chub

Fished with some friends in two sessions, catch return is for my fish only. Nasty and chill downstream breeze for much of the day seemed to keep the fish down. Very little steady surface activity. We returned later in the evening and still not much happening on the top. Took some fish searching the far bank with dries and nymphs which produced some fish. Very late in the evening, close to 9.30 onwards the wind dropped some of the time and there were a reasonable number of rising fish, although feeding wasn't sustained and difficult to target. Took a few on dries cast to rising fish in the last of the evening, close to in the dark.

7 Trout

Poor conditions, enjoyable trek in to the llyn.

Well this turned out to be my best ever session on the Wye over the last 5 years. Pretty much non stop all day particularly in the first two hours. All fish to pellet and hemp in the feeder and paste wrapped boilies as hookbait with a few of the chub on floatfished meat. Some real clonking Chub up to 5lb and Barbel up to 9lb. River low and clear but found the fish in the deeper sections.

5 Barbel, 16 Chub

1 Trout

Mixed cloud and sunny. Water level low and warm.
Highlights 3 Perch between 1.2lb and 2.2 lb.
One Eel 1lb
22 Chub biggest 2.5 lb
18 Chublets
Tactics meat . Ledgered. Feeder.

22 Chub, 4 Other