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A tough day on a low and clear river. Tried but failed to spot any fish so fished "blind". Caught a couple of small chub (ounces) in a few swims and a 3lber and a 4lber in one of them. All on trotting tactics. They seemed to switch off very quickly though. We were mullered by small fish (dace mostly) on any bait other than meat and had not so much as a sniff on feeder tactics despite fishing most of the available swims.
Upper half is typical Wye water with gravel runs, pools and faster water. Lower half is more like the Severn with deeper, slower water.
As others have said, a beautiful beat with great access. As long as you don't mind the "spectators" at the Weir Garden watching you then then it's a lovely place to be but we were surprised how hard the fishing was.
Again, as others have said, the corner swim is a snag pit but trotting there was ok.
Would return but only when the level is up as, looking at the catch returns, it seems a difficult stretch when the river is low.

10 Chub

Nothing caught or spotted

We caught 6 Barbel best 11lb 3oz & 10 Chub to 4lb, the other was an Eel.

6 Barbel, 10 Chub, 1 Other

The river looked in good condition but it turned out to be a tough day.

Spent the morning trotting a stick float at the top of the stretch. Caught two chub the biggest about 1.5lb. Moved further downstream and caught 1 more chub on the stick and one on the feeder. Biggest fish of the day was 2lb 9oz, the bait used was meat.

4 Chub

With the river level dropping and becoming clear it was a tough day. However a nearly 2 lb perch in perfect condition thought it was a barbel and took a pellet on the retrieve! Just one barbel caught along with 4 chub. Lots of end tackle lost to snags.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Our last day for this year on this tranquill setting
2 pristine bars of gold
Barbel 7lb 4oz
Barbel 7 13oz
4 chub to 3lb 9oz....

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

A beautiful setting.
The river had about 1ft to 2ft of water extra and was a perfect flow and colour..
The water temp was spot on especialy for mid october!!!
The weather was a bonus, lovely sunshine and calm wind...
A big plus there were no canoes!!!!
The barbel were in pristine condition up to 6lb 3oz..
So were the chub in pristine condition up to 4lb 5oz...

1 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

A very enjoyable day to celebrate a friends birthday. the catch return above is at least what we caught a huge shoal of small chub was present

Highlight of the day was a 11oz dace

80 Chub, 80 Other

5 Barbel, 8 Chub