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No salmon seen or caught.

Bit of a disappointing day with no salmon caught although they were definitely in the beat around the Vanstone and Maddox, saw several.
With the heat in the middle of the day I adopted an early and late approach going home once the first canoes arrived and coming back to fish in the evening.
My beef is with the state of the banks and the river inaccessibility at the upper end, Pylons, Doghole, the V, etc.
Having parked the car as far up the beat as possible I spent 45 minutes walking up the river to try and access the beats top end.I found it was impossible and in fact in a lot of places I couldn't even see the river.It was clear to me that no one had been there in quite some time and that would include a man with a strimmer. So my early start was a waste of time because by the time I'd found my way back to the Maddox and Vanstone a hour and a half has past without me wetting a line.
I feel the Foundation should comment on these factors when anglers book a beat. I know bankside vegetation grows in the summer but it would be great if access points could be cut to the riverside at the least.

WUF note - After not being fished for several weeks due to high water, the banks had become overgrown but strimming work and clearance work has subsequently been carried out with further work planned for the near future.

Nil bites. 18 inches down from Tuesday, clear, and I fished widely on beat 3 in a few hours evening session. Without the extensive weed this year I dont feel the food source is there and neither were the fish on this day.

3 Rainbow trout between 1.25lbs and 1.5lbs, caught on worm.

A beatiful stretch of river, although it would be good to have a few more swims made. Caught 3 Barbel and 2 Chub.

24 trout taken up to 1lbs 5oz.

First time at How Caple Court, 4 anglers in two cars, did look at parking both cars at the downstram end but decided to use the middle access track which was fine as the ground was dry and hard, not sure what it would have been like wet? In total we managed 22 barbel and 14 chub between us. One angler netting 9 barbel and 3 chub with the next best catch being 6 barbel to over 9lbs on ledgered pellet as well as 10 chub taken on float fished sweetcorn on what was another very hot day. Not too may swims to go at as we do enjoy roving around but all in all another fantastic day on the Wye.

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.