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No fishing. No fish. River completely burst it's banks and was flowing across the fields. Courtesy of Storm Bert.

Storm Bert! Fishing started late morning because Bert was dumping a mass of rain and blowing gusts of 45 plus mph. River was at 4.5 metres and rising. Unable to hold bottom with 6oz in most slacks. Fished to dusk. No fish.

Water temperature 5.5C. Water level increasing over the day to 1.7mtrs. Heavy rain all day. Heavy leaf debris catching line. No indications all day. Fish came around dusk.

3 Chub

Pike fishing for half a day top end of the stretch yielded just one 12lb pike

2 Chub, 1 Pike

.51on the Byton gauge, 3 degrees on arrival with 3inches of lying snow. Wonderful days fishing on an idilic stretch of river

4 Trout, 21 Grayling

Water temperature at 5.5C. No indications all day, fish came at dusk.

2 Chub

12 Trout, 10 Grayling

Thought I'd reacquaint myself with this beat after a long absence. Lovely bright winter day with snow on the ground and slippery. So, I decided not to fish but recce the beat. A few promising spots but much electric fencing and where there were access points there was also much vegetation along the bank side of the fence making further walking difficult. Had a good lunch at the Corners Inn, Kingsland. Grateful to the owners for a lovely spot.

The beauty of booking in advance! I did intend for a late season barbel session as temperatures seemed mild. Fast forward a few weeks and the "arctic blast" certainly had something to say about that. The river was up 5ft on arrival and slowly dropped as the day went on. This really is a beautiful stretch of the Wye and during the mornings snowstorm it looked magical. I opted to spend most of my time targeting pike close in at the bottom end of the stretch. A few hours were spent trying to tempt a barbel by giving different pegs 20 mins but to no avail. Late afternoon I started to get pestered by eels who shredded my Deadbait within 20 minutes of it entering the water and the one other was a small 1lb eel. It saved the blank.

Not the outcome I was after but the conditions were stacked against me. A very beautiful stretch that I'll certainly try again and hopefully I'll do better then!

1 Other

4 barbel caught throughout the day ranging from 3lbs to 7.5lbs. . All on halibut pellets.

4 Barbel