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5-30 am start due to hot weather fished swim on tail end of island 4 chub in first 2 hours then just a solitary chub in next 2 hours groundbait feeder with hemp and pellets with meat on the hook accounted for all fish,unfortunately no sign of any barbel.Left early as a mindless idiot in a kayak decided to paddle upstream and walk through my swim towing his kayak,I really do wonder if some people have any sense at all.

5 Chub

Only fished a few hours… arrived later than planned, first hour was really good lots of fish activity, then as swarms of swimmers and conoers and party’s turned up I couldn’t bare stand all the noise and disruption.

The river looked beautiful, only 2 feet deep! But could see plenty of trout in there and smaller chub. Plenty of oxygen in this turbulent water.

There is no access to most the beat without wading, I wasn’t expecting this. I don’t know how you could access it when the water is higher.

The best boundaries were not clear, I just kept moving further away from the noise of party’s / summer holidays.

Loads of blanket weed!!!! Swamping everything, every cast, made it quite an unpleasant experience.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Nothing

Fished late afternoon into early evening with nothing to show for my efforts.

Really low levels didn't help and with other clubs fishing the same stretch you found everyone fishing close together..

Fishing Passport Comment: On single bank fisheries, there may always be the potential for anglers fishing on the opposite bank.

Water levels are so desperately low and with hot sunny conditions it was a very tough day. Found a deep pocket and managed 4 barbel in the morning and 2 barbel and a chub late into the evening. Great stretch managed really well by Stefan.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

Two fished. All the chub were in the 2 to 3 pound bracket, with the barbel being around 8 pounds. We also caught 3 eels.

The walk through the woods is treacherous, so be careful.

1 Barbel, 18 Chub, 3 Other

Blanked, where there was enough water to fish your rig would be covered in silkweed within a minute. Not fishable at the moment

I should of researched a little better, this was my first visit to the Wye and was hoping for a glimpse of a Wye barbel, I booked lower symonds yat, absolutely stunning place, but not a barbel stretch in these low/slow/hot conditions, never took a rod out the van in three days of looking
I will be back, booking and access info was great, I’ll chose more wisely next time

1 Trout

Popped down on the evening and tbh it was more to try and sight the Swifts and Swallows down here of which there used to be lots of .
Saw half a dozen or so Swifts and a few Swallows, hopefully there where plenty more over the hill. Fantastic little creatures.
River was just about fishable still in the runs for a dry and water temp 15/16c but not surprisingly nothing doing at all with fly or fish so just enjoyed the peace and quiet and the Swifts. The Kingfisher was busy still too.
Good numbers of tiny olive nymphs on the stones where ever there was decent flow , but of course thats a diminishing resource these days!
Rocks where very gungy in the slack water but not particularly slimy so hopefully that all means the water quality is ok still.
Digits crossed.