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Fished from 7am on an overcast day with a downstream breeze. I decided to head for the woods after the clearance work. I vowed that I would tavel lighter after last facing the coronary inducing hill but alas it still presents a challenge when carrying armfuls of tackle and a hefty rucksack. Entering through the bottom of the woods there is a black bike lock on the metal gate so you need to climb over (not sure if I was given the code on my booking and missed it?) but thats ok because access through the woods after the clearance work is brilliant and opens up a number of other swims that were previously unfishable, you still need a bit of "mountain goat" in you to get to the swims but it's worth it. I opted to fish the Lucky Stone swim with feeder and Halibut pellets and it really was a bite a cast, only my inability to hit them kept me from catching more. I ended the day with four barbel (to 8lb) and five chub. I lost two further barbel.
Be aware the rocks here are sharp and you'll need a good supply of hooks as they are easily blunted and sturdy tackle, my 2lb barbel rod was bent double at times.
A fantastic days fishing. Cheers WUF.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Oops, please see catch report for the 13th for the total catch over both days.
Barbel weighed from 1lb to a best of 9lb and a good few fish in the 7-8lb range.

My first time on the beat. Not a good beat for a man who drives a Hairdresser's car - with the turning around of said car in the parking area being a spectacle deserving of a wider audience. A pleasant day on a low clear river. Like other correspondents, I can confirm the Gromain beat is full of small fish; with the faster water at the bottom of the beat producing all but a fish a cast throughout the morning. Mostly small Trout and Salmon Parr. Some of these fish were seriously small - I must have caught bigger Minnows on South Newington brook as a boy. Concentrating on the deeper water above the hut produced a some better Grayling in the afternoon. In spite of a sunny afternoon, next to nothing on the top - with everything falling to a tungsten nymph.

20 Trout, 6 Grayling, 10 Other

2 x trout 10-14 inches. A tough evening, warm and close, with a few trout smutting in very low water. A small Grey Duster accounted for a couple...and one got away. Stale salmon breaching in the Chine (as usual) and also Upper Rocks.

2 Trout

Having not seen this beat before, we were quick to discover two deeper pools on the left hand side. I decided to drop in the first run and my friend dropped in the last swim which had a big deeper slack on the inside after the rapids.
I started on a small dumpy waggler fishing down the middle with corn and feeding pellets and had the odd chub to 3.8lb then a small barbel of about 2lbs, nice on the float...
I ended up with six chub and two barbel the other being three pounds and one dace.
My friend had six chub and a welcome barbel of 8lb 12oz a PB. All caught on feeder tactics and meat.
The river was low and clear with bright sunshine so we felt we had done well. I recomend the WUF to anybody who has a passion for angling and the countryside. Look out for the kingfishers, not often you see three fishing together. We'll be back.

3 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

Low water level.

The river conditions were not ideal as it was low and clear, but with overcast conditions hopes were high. Fishing from 7am till dark on beat 4 & 3. The action kicked off straight away with a 6lb 8oz barbel first chuck for me, and a 7lb 4oz for J.P. I then followed that with a 7lb 14oz 2 hours later, when it started to brighten up as the cloud cover dispersed. A few chub were caught, the best being 4lb 12oz by S.P. The afternoon was very slow with 2 bites had but no fish. I lost a large fish about an hour before dark, and few more chub bites were had but no more fish landed. We all fished halibut and hemp though the groundbait feeder. A great day out in gorgeous surroundings. Will definitely be back.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

River very low and clear. 4 x fish caught. 1 x 12", 3 smaller. Mostly on drys in lower pool. Nice day out!

4 Trout

The anglers on the far bank, opposite the beach, packed up after a couple of hours and that probably should have been our cue too. However, we stuck it out, but for little reward. The noisy pump is a constant reminder of how abstraction continues even when the Wye is rock bottom low.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

With the river very low, never going to be easy but steadily caught trout and grayling to 10 inches throughout the day.

8 Trout, 12 Grayling