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No grayling spotted but 5 out of season trout caught whilst euro nymphing, 3 other fish lost. Beautiful bit of water but access is difficult in places and could do with a trim.

5 Trout

I had a great days fishing on this wonderful beat. Biggest grayling was 16" ... all caught on trotted maggots.
Good parking and great access to the river. Many thanks to the landowner and W&UF.

3 Trout, 9 Grayling

Great to be finally back on the Wye. Thoroughly enjoyable day.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 8 Chub

Barbel of 7lb 4oz Barbel and a 4lb Chub on meat.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Was a hard day for me this time only manged a chub and was just as sun was going down

1 Chub

Apart from gusty winds in the afternoon (which were forecast) conditions were pretty perfect. The river wasn't as high as I had expected, you could still wade across it in several places, but it did have a good strong flow. Slight colouring to the water, air temp around 10-12 degrees. Disappointingly no Grayling, only two very healthy looking OOS WBT caught on nymph. Lovely first day of the year (for me) on the river.

2 Trout

Lovely day on the river very mild for February, no fish for me today. My mate had a decent Barble and a good size Chub.

Fished the end swim opposite the castle. The flow was very strong so fished the near side, it was a beautiful day and location. Fished a cage feeder with mixed size pellet and curry flavoured meat on size 8 barbless with a medium length hair rig then changed to krill boilie using a 3 foot hook link.

Catch Details:
Chub 3lb @ 10:45
Chub 2.5lb @ 12:32
**Bait change**
Barbel 8lb @ 13:10
Chub 5lb @ 13:20

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Two of us fishing. A first visit to this impressive venue. Fairly low level of water, fining down but still carrying a f colour. Conditions seemed very favourable. Quickly became apparent that water was moving through deceptively quickly, and at least 3oz were required to hold, even in less pacey stretches. Pellet, meat, bread all used with feeder, but to no avail. A good three hours spent mixing things up, the first fish, a Chub of about 3.5lb was banked shortly after mid-day. An hour or so later, another Chub was taken, a bigger fish around 4lb. Both fell to cheese paste.
Hard going. A fairly strong breeze may not have helped with bite detection, but this bright, mild day seemed to promise so much more. An angler on the opposite bank, using the water in front of the cabin, also appeared to be struggling. Just one of those days I suppose.

2 Chub

Lovely day on the river trotting with mixed maggots. Caught 8 Grayling and 1 OOS Brown. Next time will try Euro Nymphing.

1 Trout, 8 Grayling