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Still very low despite some rain of the previous day and night. Managed to tempt a couple of fish but only fished for an hour in the end. Still a magic place to go fishing.

2 Trout

Caught absolutely nothing.

Low water level. 7lb and 5lb on corn over hemp.

2 Barbel

The river looked very promising with a good steady section of running water although very clear. We started relatively late in the morning with overcast weather which deteriorated into prolonged heavy rain early afternoon which obviously caused the river to rise. We caught 3 small barbel. Thanks to Don for his advice.

3 Barbel

Three trout, best of which was a surprise 14". Also lost a much bigger fish above the weir to an inexplicable hook pull, think it was a chub.

3 Trout

The river was quite low but perfect for trout and a warm day. Had plenty of takes, landed 5 fish between 2 rods, beautiful Grayling to 14 inches. Various methods of Fly but best on day was a small nymph under dry fly indicator.
Four fish returned to water, one brown trout kept.
Wading on the day was good on gravel with low water but beware of slippery boulders!
Thanks for a great day first time here, well organised.
" Tight lines "

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Caught 4 beautiful trout on an olive pattern.

4 Trout

Very impressive beat in good condition and well maintained, although water a little low, nice surroundings with easy access, overall very enjoyable. Lower beat best for the agile. Lost one of the largest grayling I have ever seen. Even the owner of the beats stopped to give advice. This is definitely a place to return to.

1 Grayling

Lots of fish seen but I found it very difficult to avoid spooking them with the very low water. 2 trout caught on tungsten bead PTN and 1 on a cdc dry fly.

3 Trout

We arrived at around 9.30am to find river very low and clear, as expected and knew it was going to be hard going in the bright sunshine. Tactics for the day were to start off rolling meat, we started at the bottom of the nearside bank and worked our way up. No touches at all on the meat so we switched to ledgering meat and pellet feeder with pellet hookbait until lunch. Still not even a nibble up until 1pm. In the afternoon I chose to fish the bottom pool and N fished half way up the nearside also in some deeper water where we thought the fish may be hiding. We started to get some knocks from Chub but no fish on the bank until about 3.30pm. Adding an imitation red maggot as a hair stop brought instant results with Neil landing 2 successive chub. It wasn't until 5.30pm when the bottom pool 'came to life' and my rod tip was motionless no more. First fish for me was a welcome 6 1/2lb Barbel followed by several chub. This was our first trip to the Wye and even though the fishing was slow the environment made up for it. We will be back :-)

1 Barbel, 6 Chub