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Roving: sink and draw, clear water, sunny and calm; 1 x 8 1/4lb pike, returned.

1 Pike

Where did the water go? Where did the fish go? Fished from dawn to 10am and then from 2.30pm - 5.30pm. Tried 5 spots, worm on bottom, float, spinner all to no avail. Saw one fish jump. Windy and cold weather. Spoke to a fellow angler fly fishing who said that others on the ticket office side were catching on the bottom. First blank in 4 visits here.

A very hard day with the river woefully low. Both of us blanked despite trying just about everything.
Fantastic stretch and our thanks to Terry for the very warm welcome, tea, and lift down to the river.
We will definitely return when we have had some rain.

Very low water but 3 WBT to 10 inches were coaxed from the deeper pools.

3 Trout

Very low water level left fish with few places to lie.
Caught 3 WBT on nymphs.

3 Trout

Two WBT to 10 inches caught by SP on dry fly patterns fished upstream.

2 Trout

The river was low and crystal clear, could not tempt a fish although saw plenty topping. Unable to see what they were taking as the small amount of flies drifting on the water appeared to be ignored.

Quite a slow days fishing in reasonable conditions. Grayling difficult to locate, except when they were rising, which was not very often. Two of us managed 4 grayling between 12" and 14", 7 smaller trout to 11" and one cracker of a trout of 15", caught on a heavy nymph fished deep and slow through one of the deep pools. The bull is quite a large one and is free roaming between fields 4, 5 and 6. During the morning, the lambs in the field on the other bank got quite excited. One of them jumped into the water, closely followed by two labradors. The lamb was swimming around the pool, with the dogs trying to grab it by the back of the neck. I chased the dogs away, and the lamb climbed out on the wrong bank. Coincidently, there were two recently drowned lambs further down the beat. With the army sounding like they were prepating for WW3, it was an eventful morning.

7 Trout, 7 Grayling

Two small trout, one 9" & one 7" on bibio type fly and a small dark brown muddler.

2 Trout

Another brill day on the Wye. Had to work hard to find the fish, but there was no stopping them once I had.
Had five fish 4.14, 4.14, 4.15, 5.8 and 6.14. Also lost a huge Barbel, it slipped the hook whilst trying to bully it away from the over hanging trees. Why is it always the big ones that get away!!

5 Barbel