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A great day on the Wye but a busy one. I have developed a new found fondness for the boating community in light of the swimmers who walk through your peg. First week of the school hols and 30 degrees guess I should have thought about that. I still really enjoyed it but found fishing tricky with the sheer volume of boats.
1 Big Eel

6 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Amazing evenings fishing, three barbel in last 90 minutes.

3 Barbel

A hot, but overcast (off and on) day. Part of a dry spell. Though overnight rain had helped the levels a little the water was still relatively low and clear. Couple of fish taken on small dry flies but most came to a small lightly weighted nymph fished upstream. Twelve fish to hand - not counting the minnow. Couple might have been Salmon Parr but we weren't sure. Mostly six inches or so but one good fish of perhaps 3/4 of a pound. 2 rods and modesty prevents my colleague declaring a win, 9 to 3. Doooh!

12 Trout

Thunder storms night previous, hence stream was fast and coloured. No fish caught.

1 Barbel

Short evening session. Expected slow going in the low conditions with 2 eels and 2 small chublets taken on maggots/worms. Two 3ft twitches at last knockings one missed one connected . Hardly any canoe traffic

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

Managed to catch a couple of barbel each in the evening, best 9lb 4oz and 8lb 4oz . Both of us also caught several chub. The others were 3 eels caught from 1 peg . Fish came to feeder and pellet/boilie tactics

4 Barbel, 8 Chub, 3 Other

Water temp at around 18C so opted to not fish but have a good close look at the river.

Good Barbel fishing but some accessibility issues - hard work getting to and into the few fishable swims and older and/or less physically capable anglers should be made aware of this.

6 Barbel

Only got 40 mins night fishing in before the lightning chased me away.