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Caught 12 Perch 0 trout (lost two close in on the fly rod) other people catching so it must be me
Bayliffs were pleasant as always and good to chat to. A lot of people fishing the Bay Area out of the elements

12 Other

Lovely morning's fishing on a beautiful river. 0.50m was showing on the gauge higher up the river, after fairly heavy rain, which made things challenging and I was happy to have gotten a take, sadly didn't land it. Using a 10ft rod made things interesting as well, but the length is actually quite useful. You can normally present a fly, you just have to think about how you're going to do it. There is a lot of tree cover, but I quite like that, really makes you feel like your hidden from the world.

A very enjoyable days fishing river high and coloured impossible to hold bottom in main flow so fished near bank slacks, feeder and pellet for barbel luncheon meat for chub. I would like to make a point regarding some of the comments in relation to amount of swims and access, even though the river was high, I had no problem finding and fishing eight swims during the day in the first field alone. If I had ventured into the wooded section there would probably have been more and I expect if the river was at normal level there would have been even more swim choice. There is a gravel track down to the river it is not full of potholes the only problem being if it Was very wet I think you would need a 4x4 but in dry conditions it is fine, the Wye is a wild river do not expect manicured pegs and easy access.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Really windy but good result

4 Trout

Really windy water was choppy but very happy with result

3 Trout

Difficult conditions. A very high and pacy river with not much slacker water to go at on this stretch. Lots of leaves and sticks coming down after the recent storm, constantly catching the line.

Just one bite out of the blue mid afternoon resulting in a 7.8 barbel.

An angler fishing from the opposite bank, where a fallen tree had caused a large slack, caught several fish throughout the day.

1 Barbel

River high due to rain over last couple of day’s. Fished slack water in front of end peg with no results. Not much slack water on the beat.

River conditions were terrible, fast high dirty water, however decided to try a swim at the lower end of the beat where a big eddy had formed. To my surprise first cast produced a Barbel of 6lb 1oz, this was followed by six other fish to 8lb 2oz. Three eels were also taken during the day

7 Barbel, 3 Other

All trout caught on fly and all returned safely.

14 Trout

Water was high, fast and red after Storm Francis so couldn't access most of the beat. No sign of any fish though the water cleared up as the day went on - I'm sure they were there. Also a small hatch of spinners around midday but nothing rising.