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Inexperienced kayakers spooked fish

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Trout

A tough session today on one of mh favourites !!! The little Duhonw is like a Lilliputian brook at the moment, clear, mega low and the trout are ultra spooky !!!
I fished half ten till half three ... Ninja stealth mode was fully activated !!! Lots of six inches fish pinballing round the pools ... With lots of eyes on the look out, it only needed one spooked trout to alert the rest in that pool ...
Hard earned fish today . Nothing big and all taken fair and square on tiny dries . There were dome upwings on parade by midday. Hot too, today 22 degrees !!! Hotter into the week too ....
Four brownies were tricked with my offering, and three salmon parr also. Fish all between six and eight inches.
This little stream really needs another six inches on it to be really good fun !! That said, I do love a challenge !!! She was bloody tricky today, so, in fairness was pleased with my result... Time to get back to "The Ponderosa" and a very,very, well deserved, cold can of Inchs Cider is waiting for me ..... happy days !!!!! A lovely day in Paradise ........

4 Trout, 3 Other

Far too many idiots in kayaks ruining the angling unfortunately so gave up and left early unfortunately

1 Chub

First time on the upper Wye and Craig Lyn did not disappoint, river still low and clear but managed to take a few on dry fly from 8:30 to 9:30, after that it was nymphs as the dry fly fishing switched off. Met the owner who was very friendly and knowledgeable on the beat, shame it was at the end of the day, I’m sure his pointers would have been useful earlier! Will definitely be back.

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

Another hard day with low water, bright sunshine and minimal fly life. Managed to winkle out 3 small trout from the streamier sections on nymphs (black perdigon & the ever faithful copper john) and a chublet on dry fly.

3 Trout, 1 Chub

This morning, the weather was perfect for fishing – sunny and calm, with no wind – but unfortunately, the trout refused to bite actively today, and between the two of us we caught only one trout (after paying for twelve ????).

1 Trout

Nice little stream with good water levels for this time of year. It goes past a sewage treatment works which you can smell, but it's OK - seems like it's operating correctly. Two decent trout to the net, one 10" on a #20 Klinkhammer, one on 8" a #20 weighted nymph.

2 Trout

Very little water, with very few fishable stretches. No sign of any fish.

Quite a surprising day. First surprise was a couple of days ahead of fishing when i saw that Fownhope 5 had no-one booked on for the Sunday. So made plans with the wife to head there for a pub lunch followed by an afternoon on the river. Next surprise was getting the bill in the New Inn at Fownhope for the excellent Sunday lunch we had there, very reasonable (especially compared to the place next door!). After lunch we headed the long way round the woods. Given recent catch reports i fully expected to find the opposite bank fully loaded with HDAA anglers, so third surprise was finding Lucky Stone pool completely deserted. Fishing in to the obviously faster water, another surprise came my way in that despite it being the middle of a very sunny day, the fish were exceptionally obliging! Chub and barbel came regularly though some bites were missed (probably chub) and a couple of fish threw the hook at the net (definitely chub!). Predominantly I fished the feeder with usual groundbait/ pellet combo and either meat or pellet as hookbait. I also waded across the very shallow section so i could trot the middle of the river with sweetcorn but it wasn't as effective as a static bait (though i did manage a decent chub on the float which was great fun!). Total of 6 decent chub and 4 barbel, biggest of which i weighed very quickly at 8.13. That was a somewhat surprising return given the conditions and the fact that we were only there for about 4 and a half hours. Last surprise was the canoes - or lack of them! In the time i was there i saw less than 10, plus a group of 3 paddle boarders... all immaculately behaved, went through quickly with a wave and a hello from me which was politely returned. Could have stayed longer and would definitely have caught more but with the walk over the hill and the drive home looming I was very content with my day. Superb!! Thanks to all at WUF and landowner for making it possible.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub