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Conditions overhead good, conditions under foot not so good. Low, gin clear water made for a difficult day. Steady mixed hatch, managed 5 wbt off the top, 4 of which were plump 10"-12"'ers. All safely returned to pass on their genes in the coming months.
At this time of year this beat is hard yards, and far too many of them for me.

5 Trout

One barbel about 6lb caught at 7.00 as the light was fading.

1 Barbel

A late afternoons visit to a new venue for me, down what seemed a long and narrow winding road, and the sound of running water on a lovely day, just makes you think sometimes!
Oh yes, the fishing, I wandered down to the start of the beat, and as normal managed to catch a few trees with my eagerness, and started to think about what I was doing and then got into the groove. Lots of fishy looking swims, but not many rising, so I started on weighted flies, but alas, no joy.
I stopped at the bridge and had a think, and in the distance there was a couple of rises, I couldnt tempt these two guys so kept wading upstream, I was just negotiating a fallen tree, and spotted anoter rise the other side of the tree, now that was not an easy place to cast to. On went the home tied dry fly with a nice hackle, one cast and nicely positioned, and YES one 7" trout hooked, what a delight. Can it get any better, worked hard for that one, one my own fly, perfect rise and take.
It's not how many for me, it's the pleasure of being out and about in such amazing places. WUF, thanks for the maintanance done on this beat, it made things really easy to negotiate.

1 Trout

Mag, feeder, 4' fluorocarbon, small hook, river low, hot, cloudy spells. Barbel up to 8lbs.

3 Barbel

This beat is well looked after by Colin. Only had a few hours on the float, all fish taken on corn towards the end of the beat. A very good day in a wonderful part of the world will return next year, many thanks.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub, 4 Other

Bright sunshine, water very low with hardly any pace to the river so not ideal conditions, only one Barbel of medium size caught mid river using the feeder method with pellets.

1 Barbel

River low, bright, sunny, cloudy spells and brisk wind pm. Feeder, mag. both had barbel up to 8lbs bracket. Some silvers.

3 Barbel

Good to be on the river even though its looking a bit sorry for itself. Saw a single resident in the Vanstone, nothing else.
Surprised to see so many canoes during the week, some behaved like idiots with little respect for others. Lots of rain would be a good idea right now, we are running out of time.

I located the fastest section of flow I could find on beat 4 and with the aid of a dog spike and rope gained access to fish it. After two hours without a bite I opted to wade across the shallows to the deep run opposite and using luncheon meat instead of pellets I immediately caught a chub. At last, the essence of Wye fishing, wading the river close up and personal to the quarry using balanced tackle. Some four hours of excellent sport completely justified the cost and effort of driving from London. Four hard fighting chub, lost fish and missed bites all components of a memorable session. I then returned to trying to tempt the barbel in a section of deep water for four hours without reward.
Next trip I will take more care to investigate river conditions to optimize the possibility of catching barbel but the chub are a pretty good consolation.

4 Chub

A most frustrating day. Plenty of fish rising but not to anything I could offer, and I offered pretty much everything over the space of 4-5 hours. Still, always a pleasure to fish this lovely stretch of water. Will be back.