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A cloudy day to start with but cleared by mid afternoon. The margins of the river are full of slime where there is little flow… not good to see. A good few sedges around but only a few upwings… there was an egg laying mayfly spinner doing her best to change that!

Rising Fish seemed to be localised. Plenty of trout around including a very healthy number of small fish - we did have 3 around 17 inches though. Also one which looked nothing like a typical spotty Wye fish … this one just had a few large black spots. All trout carrying argulus lice.

Extending my casting to cover a fish rising towards the far bank I thought I had just better cover the water near a protruding rock. The flu disappeared in to a tiny blip and all hell broke loose as a very large trout breached the surface … and threw the hook! Ah well I know where he is for the next time

21 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 Chub

Fished 6am to 1pm the middle to lower part of the stretch. Very slow morning with only 3 bites.
The one barbel was around 7lb, caught on pellet.
Not fished this stretch for a number of years and was disappointed to see that many over hanging trees have been taken out. More, easier access pegs, but lacking a lot of the original character.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Morning session for barbel. River low and clear, no bites. Spent late morning free lining luncheon meat for chub. Good fun, largest 3lb+.

1 Trout, 25 Chub

5 Chub

Fished below the bridge as I had limited time. Water level good and allowed easy wading . Fished the Foam line with a selection of dries, hooked five and missed many more. A very enjoyable couple of hours.

5 Trout

5 Barbel, 16 Chub

Water was clear and weather slightly windy and overcast. I had two takes on the Nymph landed one.

1 Trout

A bit of a disaster for me this beat had to walk down to the beat because a notice on the gate said only 4 wheel drives allowed down until further notice so walked the length of the beat with everything but the kitchen sink found a suitable swim got my rod out but couldn't find my reel I had left it in the car it must be about a mile to where I walked so to go back to the car to get my reel then come back again was not going to happen so decided to Lugg all my gear back a mile up the hill of doom and went home.

Fishing Passport Note : There is a pop up notice altering anglers to information on the track and the need for a 4x4 prior to booking. Apologies if you missed this.