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Thought I'd reacquaint myself with this beat after a long absence. Lovely bright winter day with snow on the ground and slippery. So, I decided not to fish but recce the beat. A few promising spots but much electric fencing and where there were access points there was also much vegetation along the bank side of the fence making further walking difficult. Had a good lunch at the Corners Inn, Kingsland. Grateful to the owners for a lovely spot.

The beauty of booking in advance! I did intend for a late season barbel session as temperatures seemed mild. Fast forward a few weeks and the "arctic blast" certainly had something to say about that. The river was up 5ft on arrival and slowly dropped as the day went on. This really is a beautiful stretch of the Wye and during the mornings snowstorm it looked magical. I opted to spend most of my time targeting pike close in at the bottom end of the stretch. A few hours were spent trying to tempt a barbel by giving different pegs 20 mins but to no avail. Late afternoon I started to get pestered by eels who shredded my Deadbait within 20 minutes of it entering the water and the one other was a small 1lb eel. It saved the blank.

Not the outcome I was after but the conditions were stacked against me. A very beautiful stretch that I'll certainly try again and hopefully I'll do better then!

1 Other

4 barbel caught throughout the day ranging from 3lbs to 7.5lbs. . All on halibut pellets.

4 Barbel

Looked perfect. 0.675 cilmery and a hint of colour (previous day 0.338). Spent the day trotting the lower pools but not even a bite all day.

Pike caught today

1 Pike

3 Grayling

2 rods, both fly fishing. 5 grayling and 1 brown trout caught towards bottom of beat. All on nymphs fished under an indicator. These were re-booked wash off days from September. River now very clear and lowish. Party of about 10 canoes launched late morning from the burn mouth on the other side.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

One rod, fly fishing. 7 grayling between 8" and 12" caught in the morning towards bottom of beat. All on nymphs, either fished under a dry or straight lined. Tried fished the deeper gutters and glides on the upper half of the beat in the afternoon without success.

7 Grayling

2 Grayling

A tough days fishing mainly due to the river being extremely low and access is difficult on the bottom half of the fishery.
A lovely day on a very peaceful and quiet stretch of river.
Biggest grayling around 12"
Many thanks WUF and the landowner.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling