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Only one chub at 2lbs. Unusually for a Sunday there were no canoes at all and only one angler on the opposite bank.

1 Chub

Fishing slow to start but picked up later, river low and clear, weather sunny. As for comments previously regarding the opposite bank, we saw very few anglers, so this did not cause us any problems (surprising as it was a Sunday!).

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Fished below the footbridge and managed a few fish. The scenery and the birdlife are nearly as good as the fishing. Fabulous stretch.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Roger Smithson, Bridge fly stream 7lbs, ally srimp fly, netted by Jerry the gillie.
Roger Brown Hut fly stream 9lbs 9 lbs silver stoat fly netted by Jerry.
NINE other fish seen covered but no takers. A good day out, no canoes and no anglers on the opposite bank.

2 Salmon

A day of light cloud and a little early morning drizzle. Arrived at midday had a walk along the beat and pre baited a couple of swims. Had the place to myself and the first Barbel of 7 1/2lb arrived after about an hour. Caught the second Barbel about hour and a half later weighing in at 5 1/2lb. Had a quiet spell then had a Chub of 3lb 5oz. Started to rain at about 5pm when I had the final Barbel of 7lb 5oz. It then lashed down so I packed in and headed back to the holiday cottage. Great day thanks WUF.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished top section between the gate and fishing hut, 2 chub early on, but besides numerous salmon leaping in the pools, nothing else doing.

2 Chub

10-12lbs cock salmon home made fly, silver and yellow size 12 hook at 1.30 pm Fish returned safely.

1 Salmon

Sorry to say this is the last time I will be visiting this venue. Too expensive to share your swim with half the population of Birmingham. They descend from the Black Country and line the far bank like an ivading Army. This is not what I come to the Wye for. Not a single bite.

As other posts have stated the far bank is lined with angers from Birmingham AA and while we understand WUF cannot guarantee exclusivity it does get frustrating having paid double the going rate to find a large proportion of the opposite bank full, even midweek.
A man walking his dog told us that the landowner of the opposite bank was not too happy with the opposite bank being very busy with some anglers fishing into darkness.
Moan over.
Similar weather to the previous 2 days did not help the fishing and the 3 of us struggled aside from the 4 fish in total we caught. Picturesque the venue maybe but the change of use of the far bank will ensure we will not be booking this length again.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Due to the bright sunny weather, cold nights and falling water temperature, I started fishing at 2pm. Between 3pm and 6-30pm caught 4 barbel up to 6lb on pellets. Sadly, 2 of these fish had badly broken dorsal fin spines, and also missing upper parts of the tail fin. I have not seen serious damage like this in the 4 previous years of fishing this stretch. It looks like the result of fish being retained in keepnets, or use of crude, inadequate landing nets. Top of the list of suspects are the club fishing the opposite bank, which has resulted in a big increase in fishing pressure this year.

4 Barbel