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Beautiful conditions.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

We were only able to fish for a few hours in the morning. There were lots of young canoeists who were impeccably behaved. This was in marked contrast to the 50 year old we encountered the previous day, trailing a spinner through every salmon pool, who seemed determined to re-enact "Deliverance". If the canoe companies want to avoid unpleasant conflicts they should tell canoeists that they must not take fishing rods with them. The occasional EA checks on whether canoeists with fishing rods actually have licences wouldn't go amiss either.
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2 Barbel, 6 Chub

River was low and fairly slow flowing, we fished a ground bait feeder with 1 foot hook length all fish fell to luncheon meat. The largest fish was 3lb 9oz.

8 Chub

With the main river very low I decided to try a wild stream. What fun. the level was a bit low so searching out the pockets of deeper water was the key with a stealthy approach. I used a 7'6" 3wt rod with single dry flies, which was perfect apart from the odd bit of blustery wind. 100m up the stream I came across a fresh dead WBT which must have weighed over 3lb. That might have been a challenge on a 3wt. Worked my way to the top and ended up walking back down through the stream as no obvious path or route to the road. Wading stick essential.

4 Trout

Thrashed out a couple of swims in the jungle at top end of beat. Fish weren't really on it all day - a bit of action after 4pm but generally slow. River low.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Nice day, nice beat. No salmon caught.

River very low and a strong downstream wind made life difficult. Did catch mainly on dries in the faster water or under cover of trees. Best fish about a pound.

14 Trout

Fished Wye for the first time. River low and very clear, weather was hot with some cloud at times through the day. Fished from 7.30 a.m to 3 p.m. but I could not get a bite all day on the lower part of the beat opposite the white & yellow house on far bank. The swim looked ok with a few feet depth of water in front of me. Used feeder with pellet bait & tried luncheon meat on the hook also. Moved to upper section just above the orchard and started to get bites off far bank to luncheon meat from about 5 p.m. but still no bites or proper takes. Very disapointing and I hope the Creel gives up some fish to me tomorrow.

Started off trotting luncheon through fast water by the side of the island and had three chub in half hour all about 3lb. Then the canoes came, one after the other for 5 hours so switched to feeder and picked up 5 more with the biggest two 5lb. Moved to top of beat for last knocks and picked up a lovely barbel nudging 10lb. Lovely beat if you can tolerate the canoes and the huge amount of weed that follows them. Saw a few huge carp in the slower water late on. Also two eels the one about 3lb, the other about 1.5lb.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub, 2 Other

6 Trout