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Fished a relaxed afternoon session in low clear water. Leaves starting to drop but the weather was still quite warm. No fish seen other than a lively trout. I wish the salmon well over the next few weeks and here's to continued recovery in 2016.

1 Trout

Worm

6 Trout

Very nice beat, 2 barbel landed to 8lb an 2 nice barbel lost.

2 Barbel

All returned of course, no salmon seen.

2 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

Best grayling was the first at about 12" and never managed to get into a shoal but an enjoyable day nevertheless.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Water in perfect condition. Beautiful and secluded landscape. Beautiful day with no rain. Very limited number of grayling caught/seen. Very little activity with nymphs and most captures on dry olive ephemeras 18 hook.

12 Trout, 1 Grayling

Hi, whilst we enjoyed our day a lot, I would have the following comments to make. The fishing pegs are very very limited. Not having fished the stretch ever before I decided to walk it from top to bottom. I counted probaly 8 pegs in total that could be fished but 3 of these were really really awkward to fish and in fact most anglers wouldnt have even contemplated looking at them. 2 others at the lower end were in extremely shallow fast water and not really an option. With any water on then one of these would have been a no no so in reality there were about 4 pegs. I believe 4 anglers are allowed on it so possibly okay but then no options to move at all. We were lucky enough to be the only 2 anglers so we could move a bit but at £22 each we thought its very very expensive for the options available. With a little bank work the difficult pegs could be made better and a couple more created at the upper end. I suppose the question would be, would I return? The answer is only possibly if I knew we were the only 2 on there as 4 is to many for the stretch as it is.(from an angler thats seen a lot of river over many years). Thanks.
WUF note: Wyastone Leys, like many Passport fisheries, is a 2 person beat with an option of a party of 3 or 4 to book. 2 groups of 2 or 4 individuals would not be permitted.

1 Barbel, 1 Pike

Sliding ledger.

8 Trout

No fish caught but lots of fish showing in the afternoon.

Arrived relatively late, around 2.30pm. PH set up in the first swim on the opposite side from the road, JC headed to the last swim on the road side. PH struggled to find any fish during the short session - JC on the other hand had a couple of chub relatively quickly, then things went quiet.... Then at around 5pm, the bottom pool seemed to come alive as JC took a chub almost every cast, finishing with 8 in total. Biggest was a touch over 5lb.
This proved to be the last fish JC would see for the next two days, as both anglers would join friends to fish Lower Canon Bridge (Monday) and Middle Hill Court (Tuesday). PH managed to reverse the trend and do much better.
Stayed at the Greenman in Fownhope. A bit pricey but very pleasant indeed. Thanks to all at WUF, booking, directions, service - all spot on!

8 Chub