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Another blank day on this lovely looking stretch of water. Lots of insect activity but no sign of any fish.

Tricky conditions to start with - lots of weed coming down made fishing difficult. It was my first time on this beat so was fishing somewhat blind. I later found some barbel and caught well catching 8 barbel between 3 and 8 lbs - all on pellet. Fished between 3pm and 8pm.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

River unfishable downstream on previoulsy booked beat so a quick stop at the WUF office got us a day at Dolgau. Immaculately maintained beat with some lovely salmon pools. Very kind and helpful owner. No sign of any fish and water began to colour up as we arrived.

The bottom half of this stretch is nice to fish, the top half with a bit of rain, take a lifejacket.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Day 3 of 4 the WUF. Started fishing at around 10:30am on what looked like a perfect river. 6 chub, 1 barbel and 2 lost barbel in the first half hour (all on pellet) suggested a bumper day, but then the river started to rise rapidly. Managed another 3 barbel in the next hour before the amount of weed in the faster water made the swims unfishable and forced us to move. Again another day of heavy rain. Moved to the top of the stretch and managed 1 further barbel late in the evening, but the weed made life difficult.

5 Barbel, 7 Chub

Fished from 8am to 9pm. River was carrying about 6inchs of water but not a lot of colour. We were both feeder fishing and it was hard going during day; after rain in afternoon river rose about 8inches and had a bit of colour, after which the barbel switched on and the bites started to come ending with me having 5 barbel around the 8lb mark and 1 x 3lb chub. My mate had 1 small chub and a large eel. Many thanks to the Foundation and hope to be on the Wye again soon.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

We originally booked Perryhill but a combination of heavy rain, access issues and dodgy knees meant we chickened out and booked Wyastone Leys instead. This was the first time I'd seen this beat in the summer, having only previously fished there in March. We fished the faster swims at the top end of the beat - a bit of a struggle really, possibly because the river was just starting to rise after the heavy rain. However we managed to eke out a Barbel and 3 Chub. One of the Chub was a absolute clonker at 5lbs 10oz. Finished early at around 6pm.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Much needed rain graced my day, all day. A fine chub from the lower stretch on float fished breadflake and a good eel of about 4lb late on from the last swim of the stretch next to Vanstone pool. Warning This peg is extremely snaggy.

1 Chub, 1 Other

Started at 9.00am then the torrential rain started river rose rapidly so left, will be back another day.
Nothing caught.

4 Barbel from the first swim you can get to and 3 chub from the shallow fast water. Tried the top croy but not a touch. Left early because of the rain.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub