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A very bright sunny but cold day along with a river that was relatively low and clear, meant we knew we were going to have a tough day's fishing. Sure enough that was the case with a trout about 1.5lb being the only action of the day, that said it was lovely to be out in such beautiful countryside.

1 Trout

The river was down to around a metre on the Ross gauge and the weather was mild so I decided to give the fishing a try. After over three hours in two swims without a touch I caught a smallish chub late in the afternoon, followed by two more. Then on the last cast, as darkness fell, I had a barbel. Only around the 5lb mark, but a good end to a hard day. All the fish on halibut pellet.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

arrived at 8.30am to a river up and rising,gale force winds and heavy showers.cooked a lovely breakfast then decided to cut our losses and start our 4hr journey home at 11.trips like this make the good days after 8hr round trip even sweeter!

Like yesterday, unfortunately not a bite to be had despite trying different methods/swims. At this time of year, hardly surprising but a lovely day out none the less. Same moan; more rafts of freshly cut branches dumped in the river and
forcing line to be hastily wound in . I would have thought there should be some sort of restriction on dumping this sort of waste in the river ?

Whilst it was a cold day, thought I might be able to winkle out a chub or two on paste/meat/maggot, fishing in the deeper margins , but to no avail. Not a touch, but a lovely day out. I would like to have a moan; there was obviously some kind of clearance work going on further upstream , fishery work perhaps and annoyingly large rafts of freshly cut branches came down stream all day clearly showing freshly cut saw marks. Surely this sort of waste can be easily put on the bank and burned / disposed of, instead of using this beautiful river as a dustbin ? Perhaps W+UF could use their influence to prevent this kind of behaviour.

No bites all day tried various swims, baits and presentations ie straight lead and feeder but not even a chub to show for my efforts. It was cold and the river was pushing through with plenty of water in it. That’s why they call it fishing not catching.

No bites a blank day

Obviously some ' bank work ' being carried out upstream as both yesterday and today was being inundated with debris for 2/3 hours from 10 A.M. onwards. Now on a river like the Wye you expect to encounter debris especially at this time of the year but this was not natural as the large 'passing' branches and 'rafts' had clearly been cut. Basically, somewhere upstream you've got a fishery owner or angling club who are too lazy to get this debris onto the bank and dispose of it properly so instead dump it in the 'oggin' not giving a toss about who or what it affects downstream...

2 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub