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Didn't catch anything, didn't see anybody else catching, no fish rising, very sunny day though.

A beautiful Autumnal day, very cool to start but pleasantly warm and sunny through the day. Several trout spotted near the bridge and a few through the run after the salmon pool. There was not one salmon however. I could see the bottom of the pools and runs and there were none. I didn't catch anything!

We caught 4 Barbel ,8lbs 8oz, 7lbs 2oz, 7lbs 8oz and 6lbs 2oz. We fished the double swim just down from the weir pool.

Whilst fishing the lower Wall Pool on Saturday morning my specialist barbel rod and 35 year old beloved Mitchell 300 has wrenched into the river within seconds of casting out! It flew off the rod rest and raced out across the pool and sank out of sight. 2 hours in the boat with a heavy spinner failed to find it. 5 hours later my 12 year old daughter was spinning for trout with micro gear and a tiny mepps in the top of the Wall Pool. She snagged the bottom and I went to help. The bottom moved and we suspected a salmon! After a great tussle in came a foul hooked 11lb Barbel. When I netted it it seemed to be snaaged - and YES there was my hook and line in its lower lip. We bought the boat up the pool and I went out gently handlining and up came my feeder, rod and reel!!! 50 meters UPSTREAM of where it went in. These Wye barbel are truly wild, strong fish!! We totalled 8 barbel over the trip all in double figures!

Fished from 2pm until 7pm in very bright sunshine and gin clear summer level water. So not ideal barbel catching conditions. As the light faded, managed to winkle out two decent barbel circa 7lbs and my son lost a decent fish.
Nice looking stretch with lots of potential in perhaps more favourable conditions.

7 barbel to 9lb 4oz a 5lb chub. The beat boundary line indication on the W&U map clearly shows the bottom boundary being the centre of the Old Bridge. This is misleading as the boundary is actualy the upstream fence line. This was CLEARLY explained to me by the keeper when he turned up and asked me to move back over the fence when I had just set up to fish off the peg between the bridge and the fence. The W&U need to make the beat boundary specific to prevent any future anglers suffering the same embassment as I did.

A quite disappointing day. The beat was over roded with 6 rods from 3 differing parties, meant that we were always on top of one another. Plus rods fishing the upper section on the opposite bank.
I was told the week before that the beat was limited to 3 unless the party was all together. A great shame, I had invited a friend down who had travelled nearly 300 miles to come fishing on what we thought would be exclusive water not sure they will be back.

3 barbel to 8lbs and 3 chub to 5lbs 10oz. All fish caught on pellet.

River low and clear. Fished hard with no sign of Salmon all day. Good sport with Grayling; caught over 10 in 2hrs on a single dry fly I found in the boot of my car. Hey, why bother with other thousand flies left home if this one works?!

1 small trout caught on a small black gold head emerger pattern and returned to river. Good fishing and no adverse comments.