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Fished for a couple of hours with the fly rod, no fish seen. Also coarse fished for a few hours with my son who lost one Barbel. No contact with any other fish.

First time on the beat, struggled to find fish in the morning. Moved a few times then we located a few fish. We had 7 barbel between us, 1 chub, 1 salmon par and 1 dace. The river was low and clear. We will be back and thanks for the Wye and Usk Foundation for their information on the stretch.

7 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

River level and flow ok. Few light showers and quite windy.
Fished with pellet on hair rig and feeder with pellet. Blanked not even a bite. Foundation's booking office very helpful on choosing a beat.

10am to 12.30pm. Trotting maggots to see if the grayling that took sweetcorn in June still resident. Wading in bottom pool, 1 cock grayling of around 6oz, 4 out season brown trout 6oz to around 1.5lb and 3 chub of 2 to 3lb. Moved to shallows below entry and fished edge of main flow, another small brown trout, 1 chub of around 4lb, 1 barbel of 6lb size and what I think was a sea trout of around 3lb, an all over silver fish with few dark spots that could have passed as a small salmon but looked more of a trout, a very strong fish! All fish in excellent colour and condition released in water.
The problem with trotting on the Wye is if a true trotting rod is used its not strong enough for the barbel and big chub hooked in the current but a 1.5lb test curve is a bit of a broom handle for majoriy of fish hooked. The use of a centre pin however adds to the enjoyment and direct contact with the hooked fish.
Several summer fly rods questioned the presence of trout in this area of the Wye, 5 trout plus a sea trout in 2.5hrs is good by any estimation. A pair of constant passing kingfishers and a raven soaring then corkscrew tumbling in the wind completed an excellent morning, then it rained!

5 Trout, 1 Sea Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 4 Chub

J.JEFFERY 11 lbs hen fish caught in the Carrots stream,
Ally shrimp size 12, fish in good condition and netted by guest Edward after a good fight. A good lunch was enjoyed
by all in the Carrots pub.

1 Salmon

A nine pound coloured male salmon from the neck of the Rectory pool on a size 10 Ally shrimp.

1 Salmon

10lb coloured hen fish caught on a snaelda.

1 Salmon

3pm to 6.30pm, rain ceased. Wading and trotting maggot on Lower Courtfield just below little willow. 3 chub in the 2 to 3lb range and at dusk a further chub weighed at 5lb 10oz. Thats 3 chub this season from that swim just short of my target 6lb. Disturbed a smelly dog fox with one of this years release of pheasant in its jaws that hampered its flight up the steel steps. With black mink in area I will put back the electric on fence around our chickens and ducks!

4 Chub

Cold and gusty north-easterly. River around 1 ft and decent visibility. Bright to start with but clouded over in the late morning. Lost a small red fish in the Stones in the afternoon, then landed a coloured 14 lb fish in the Island.
No fish seen all day. Mink hunting the far bank at the Vanstone.

1 Salmon

Blank. A big blustery downstream wind, rain after lunch and just over a foot on the gauge. Conditions looked OK, but fished hard until dusk without a take (but I see another rod was successful at the top end)