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First time on the lovely Wye with logistics made easy by excellent WUF. Fish to 8lb on legered meat. Three cormorants sighted.

6 Barbel

Most of river inaccessible from land. River was encased in tunnel of trees with no room for overhead casting, luckily I had small travelling fly rod 7 and a half feet in length. Found gap in trees where bank not too steep and waded up and down most of the stretch. Spotted few trout around 1lb mark especially near undercut banks by deeper water. Landed small black flies / nymphs on nose of fish but uninterested. Spotted a tightly packed huge shoal of small trout no bigger than 2 inches - guestimate of well over 300!

First time on this beat. First tried the upper access near the footbridge but found it very difficult to access the water further than about 100m downstream of the bridge. After an hour of bushwhacking I drove down the lower access by the mill. No bushwacking necessary here. Made my way up from the bottom of the beat as far as I could go. Condition seemed perfect. Not a sausage.

Fished for 2 days and had around 13 barbel and 8 chub between us. River looked great but fishing was quite hard. Lost loads of gear fishing in the swims in the woods, so much so it became impossible. Spent most of the second day in the first field, less snags but less fish.

13 Barbel, 8 Chub

Could only manage a late afternoon/evening session and was able to winkle out a few fish with nymphs from the faster water. I was hoping for some dry fly action in the evening but the fish never really got settled into a proper feeding pattern and were easily spooked.

5 Trout

The river was looking a little fresher after a small lift last week but still needs more, as they all do around here. All quiet as far as any fly coming off or falling in so prospected with the old workhorse of a fly, black klinkhammer .
Only worked up to the house below the fish farm today as was quite a windy day and with it coming in from all directions too!
Picking off trout here and there in the 6 to 8 inch bracket, none of the bigger chaps wanted to play today but still great fun but the highlight was a 14inch cock grayling, never had any grayling out of here before, lovely! Am certain there was another decent one in the same pool too as fluffed a couple of the those 'blipping' grayling type rises !

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

River up to a foot dropped back to 6 inches perfect, plan to nymph pocket water for couple hours and dry fly fish in evening. Started well with 3 quick fish, then went into missing take after take, often hooking for a second, then losing fish. Just not sure what happened really tentative takes. Dry prooved no easier with few rises demanding excellent prersentation. A win for the end of season trout. Loved it.

5 Trout

Fished for several hours, one trout landed, one lost, and a few other takes. Strong on shore breeze throughout the day. Generally dry and sunny.

1 Trout

Did not start till 12 and both fished the bottom pool with feeder and pellet tactics. We were into fish straight away, I had 10 barbel in the first 10 casts, though the fish were mainly small they ranged from 12oz.to 8lb. I finished the day with 31 barbel and 3 chub while Steve had 17 barbel, 1 chub and 1 dace. A brilliant day on the Wye again.

50 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

First visit to this stretch and have to say I was a bit surprised by the lack of fishable swims and the poor maintenance of the access steps at the top end given the day ticket price. However, the river looked the part and I rotated 3 of the swims at the top and caught fairly regularly throughout the day, although I did take a long lunch break from midday until 3.30pm. 5 barbel to 9.01 and a couple of decent chub made it all worthwhile.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub