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All were caught using worm fished deep. Weather was very hot.

6 Trout

The fishing was hard going as expected in the sweltering heat and low river levels. We ended up with 11 chub to 3lbs and plenty of dace and chublets on feeder and waggler before retiring early to the pub. This is a lovely beat set in peaceful surroundings with good parking next to the bridge.

Not as productive as Monday but still landed and returned 7 fish, best 12oz, with 5 taken on pheasant tail nymph with lureflash tail, and 2 late on on dry wulff including the largest which smashed the wulff when tweaked across the current below rock. Some good trout come up the streamy bit out of the Chine late on but they are very wary and difficult to get them to take.
Water 19 deg and 0.4m

7 Trout

The Wye was still high, but a day when the dry fly seemed to work better than spiders. A mixed bag of 17 mostly small fish to various patterns. Some modest trout and a few chub which were chasing minnows in a shallow. Pride of place went to three female grayling, each 15 inches and alike as peas in a pod, which in one spot took respectively a Klinkhammer, Orange Otter and a Grayling Steel Blue, all size 16. Every time a fish was caught and returned, the shoal underneath rightly suspected deception and treachery at the surface and would not rise again until the pattern was changed.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling, 5 Chub

What a scorcher! River low, clear and slow but some reward for tolerating the heat.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Feeder fished with Richworth Xtracta ground bait, pellet and boilies. Ledger fished over Hinders Elipse pellets. River conditions low. Largest barbel 6lb 7oz.

5 Barbel

Nothing caught.

River very low and weather boiling hot, no fish moving or to be seen anywhere on the lower stretch of the fishery. A poor days fishing after excellent experiences in previous year. I can only put it down to river levels and heat, however I will be back to try again it is still a wonderful venue.

1 Chub

Day two - Conditions the same, low and clear very hot. D had three barbel, first about 5lb, the other's both about 7lb had two more on but lost them in snag. These were in about a one hour period between one and two in the afternoon, then nothing. Again caught on elipse pellet.

3 Barbel

Fished for 1.5 hours before breakfast and caught 4 small trout on F fly.

4 Trout