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Water high and pushing through all the debris from yesterday’s storm. Virtually impossible fishing conditions, all manner of trees branches logs etc coming down river dragging the line, huge numbers of leaves. So despite me walking my gear downstream as far as i could to get out of the worst flow I abandon fishing after 2 hrs. Usually i say a bad days fishing is better than a good day in the office but today challenged that statement.

river was up several feet from yesterday, so abandoned the prospect of fishing, licking our wounds, drove home after a
fruitless couple of days..

another one down to experience, had quite a few of those unfortunately on the wye, going to ask for a wash off for the second day, see how we get on..

gales just like our last visit must be cursed, tried fishing behind cover, very difficult to present a bait..no bites all day..

Beautiful sunny winters day, two Barbel falling to bollie and pellet set ups.

2 Barbel

Lovely day to be out on the river, tried several swims but could not get a bite, river was up & pushing through fast. Found a nice slack just above the island which l thought would contain fish but proved fruitless. Always nice to be on the Wye will return when conditions are more favourable.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

5x Grayling 10-16ins & 1x oos wbt long trotting red maggot.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

River still high limiting number of fishable swims. 2 Chub of 4 and 4.5 lb and four trout all taken long trotting.
Tried boilies, meat and corn with feeder, but nothing doing

4 Trout, 2 Chub

No fish and no sign of fish still enjoyed the trip and nice water

First time fishing Pontithel. The stream was much bigger than other wild streams I have fished. Started off with 6ft 3wt and soon realised I needed a longer rod. Good thing was the car park was next to the river. So a quick trip back to the car to change to 8ft6.

Had 1 grayling and 4 out-of-season brown, all taking deep pheasant tail nymp.

Could not fish all the way to the beat-end. About 3/4 up the beat, it became too deep to wade. Tried to go around but the left bank had barbed wire and the right bank had thick thorn bushes. Barbed wire was definitely a no. After successfully climbed the steep bank and used the wading stick to make my way through the bushes, ran into another barbed wire. So called it a day and painfully made my way back through the bushed to the river.

Overall, still enjoyed it. Oos browns were quite large for wild brown standard.

Ps > the grayling didn't make it way to the camera as it slipped out before the shot was taken

4 Trout, 1 Grayling