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Fishing quiet slow at the beginning of the day but improved when the sun went down.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Did plan on giving the Llynfi , Pontithel , a bash today , but saw last night got pipped at the post , never mind , back up plan was to head to Abbey Dore . . . . . . .

Turned up at the lovely Abbey Dore beat just before ten , tackled up the usual six foot rod , as it's a bit tight under the canopy , and bimbled down to the beat start , initially trying heavy nymphs , with one good follow from a cracking grayling , a couple of rises seen at half passed ten , so swapped nymphs for a tan klinkhammer , and immediate response , although an OOS brownie , was still a cracking fish and quickly slipped back in , perhaps twelve inches . . . .

The morning went like that with some cracking sport , albeit brownies , smashing the klinkhammer , water still pretty deep in places , and still a bit coloured , with a good flow too it !!!!!

The three hours were great fun , was hoping to locate the grayling , swapped dry for a heavy nymph on three occasions , but no joy , seemed like it was just the trout looking up for a good feed today , and the brownies are not yet in their " pulling attire " , and the seven I had today ranged from fourteen to seven inches , and some real puff in them too . Three of the fish gave me a right run around on the two weight rod .

All in all a really fun three hours , no ladies caught , but still nice to be on the Dore , shall maybe give it another bash in a few days , after a hectic weeks work , that was just the ticket !!!!!!

7 Trout

Looked good at 1pm when arrived , opted first swim over bridge , bit too confined with that height of water , moved down and hit chub first cast ,after a little corn loose fed , took 4 in a 45min session float fishing ,then it seemed to shut down ,straight led with 3oz struggled to hold where I wanted it and constant leaves , weed and debris, meant I was bringing in kit every 10 mins . lost 3 Barbel and landed 3 up to 6lbs+ all on golf ball sizes of Aldi chopped ham with pork , in that flow bites were savage , another great day on the Wye , thank you all concerned....

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Tried luncheon meat for four hours without success. Then switched to maggots with swim feeder. Two barbel were caught straight away on consecutive casts, one about 6lbs and one about 8lbs. had to pack up then to go home. Wish we had started using maggots earlier. River conditions ideal, weather sunny and warm. Will go back again and fish differently. lovely section of the wye!!

2 Barbel

The banks were quite treacherous and the river was still recovering from the weekend floods. All fish taken on luncheon meat at the last downstream swim. All barbel were monsters, 9lb, 9lb 1oz and the biggest at 10lb 8oz. Lost 1 more when hook pulled out and also lost half a dozen chub in the nearbank snags, they certainly know exactly where they are!!!

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

22 Barbel, 8 Chub

Definitely fewer fish present than other stretches we’ve fished this week. Perseverance paid off late in the day. 1 barbel early and 4 really late on.

5 Barbel

3 Barbel

A difficult day. The water was a lot higher and flowing faster than expected from the image on the Lugg webcam. This was the third time visiting Lyepole and some of the pools and likely fishing spots had disappeared under the increased water flow. The fish caught fell to a variety of heavily weighted nymphs fished at relatively short range on long leaders.

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

5 Trout