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5 rainbow trout caught using worm as bait.

6 rainbow trout caught using worm as bait.

One Rudd fell to sweetcorn early on and a lot of missed bites followed from many more small rudd. Tried every bait possible but to no avail. A couple of carp could be seen swimming around towards the end of the day but were frustratingly impossible to tempt. Lovely location though, all in all, a very pleasant but sadly fishless day.

Top pool completely clogged with weed and totally un-fishable, bottom pool very low with a film of oily residue on the surface.
Have reported to WUF and am still awaiting a response and refund.

10 WBT in total, nice evening, plenty of fly life but no action on the surface.

18.30hrs, had seen grilse jumping below island last few days from our home. River low enough (just!) to wade out to island. Had one grise of 5 or 6lbs on small flying c with single hook and Wye weight above to hold it down.
19.30hrs, bottom pool of beat, only 15ft from bank in shallow eddy, 3 barbel largest weighed at 9lb 10oz on 20mm halibut pellet and loose fed sweetcorn in area.
21.00hrs saw salmon jump by Wharf Pool on edge of flow so put small flying c back on and similar size fish to first caught, this one was deeper in body and jumped clear several times.
All salmonoids released in water unharmed. Mixed evening !

Saw and touched nothing all day. Water dropping and clearing, should be good for weekend. Not sure how one fishes the right bank when water that high? Too high for me to risk on my own.
I lied, I lost one. A canoe about 11.10am, gave a good fight until the hook came free LOL

None seen, none caught.
Thankyou

River only 2 foot above normal level but still pushing through with colour dropping out and some weed visable a third way accross and bottom in the side.
I fished the middle to lower stretch and found the Chub feeding in great numbers following recent spawning and some even still in spawn. The Barbel were either slower to the bait or not so hungry as I finished the day with 27 Chub to 4lb 8oz and 12 Barbel to 8lb 5oz.
It was good to see numbers of fry have survived the floods even if they were small.
Excellent information from Colin Richardson and customer service from Wye and Usk.

Last day and a bit more cloud cover. I've had an enjoyable day catching 20 Chub over 2lbs with the two biggest at 4lbs 12ozs and 5lbs, plus 3 Barbel to 8lbs. P has fished the waterworks end of the meadow for a 6lb Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 2ozs. A has caught 2 Barbel to 7lbs 14ozs sharing the last swim on the meadow with J who had 3 Barbel to 7lbs 3ozs. Bait and tactics the same. Canoe traffic very heavy today, 99.9% are fine but one or two today were a pain, it's incredible how such well spoken people can be so bad mannered!! All in all we've throughly enjoyed ourselves. Restrictions on our accomodation meant we were fishing at the least productive times of the day but we still all caught Barbel every day we fished. Many thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation and particularly Don who was his usual helpful and accomodating self, a true gent!