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Enjoyable but fish-less day on the lake. Saw approximately half a dozen trout rise all day. My wife lost a nice fish in the river mouth and I had a few takes but nothing stuck. Water temperature was warm but conditions were perfect. Some really large lake olives hatching off. Lack of fish didn't spoil what was a very enjoyable day in beautiful scenery.

2 Grayling caught and returned - 1 (about 1 lb) early in the day and 2 (bigger fish - nearer 2 lbs) late in the day. Both on small nymphs - 1 olive and 1 pheasant tail.
Conditions were very good. Water level was ok. Nice warm day with light cloud. Lovely stretch of water.

2 Grayling

always use fly weather conditions not to good but still had a good day

1 Trout

Brown trout and Pike to Marcin Binczewski.

1 Trout, 1 Pike

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

River was very low and in need of the rain that came the days after. Locating the barbel was fairly difficult but we managed one each and several chub. One chub was over 6lb and resulted in a PB. Barbel were 8.5lb and 9lb. Used to seeing more small barbel (3-5lb)and often have over 5 in a day on the wye but I should think they were in deeper areas and waiting for a bit of colour/flow back in the water. Quality of the fish was amazing as always. Lots of canoes but traffic decreased around dinner time and fishing switched on more.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub

Came home after 1hr. Disgusting amount of litter everywhere, people shouting and screaming on banks, if there were fish within bank range they were soon driven to the middle. Utter waste of money

2 Chub

River in good condition with some insect life including a few mayfly. Only one rise seen during a full morning. Otherwise no fish visible. Tried both dries and nymphs to no avail. There is new fencing along much of the beat with stiles to ease access. However, bankside vegetation is rampant, there are many fallen trees and much of the water is overhung with branches making casting challenging even when wading. It would not require a huge effort to cut back the vegetation and trim a proportion of the lower branches. The benefit to anglers would be enormous.

2 Trout