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A lovely stretch of water with plenty of challenging casts and fairly good access to the pools. A few yellow may spinners about but otherwise not a lot of insect life - a quiet day with not much rising. Only two 7" brown trout caught at the end of the day.

2 Trout

Another new beat and another long walk like the previous day at Lower Canon Bridge. It would have been possible to drive the car up the track but for the damage caused by someone hauling a huge tree up the bank with heavy machinery. Still, it gave us the chance to have a good look at the length. We settled on a long pebble beach where the river narrowed and flow increased and were rewarded with 16 barbel to 9lb 13oz and 10 chub. Most of the better barbel fell to 10mm boilies with various pellets acounting for the rest

16 Barbel, 10 Chub

Each fisher caught two small brown trout (6-8 inches) and all fish were successfully released. The weather was showery rain and the river rose and coloured for a while before falling slightly at the end of the afternoon. Some sedge were seen, but there was no organised hatch of fly. Accordingly, very few fish moved. Wet and dry fly were used but the catches were on small wet flies of traditional patterns such as Greenwells and Black Spider. Difficult day but we enjoyed the varying fishing the beat offers.

4 Trout

2 barbel, 2 Chub were caught.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Low and clear, very quiet day, think barbel are still spawning? River full of shad said salmon fisherman.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Great to explore a new beat at summer levels and understand the lies for another day. Lovely fly water. Can't wait to return with 2' on the Llanstephan gauge!

Raining quite heavily on arrival but stopped shortly afterwards. I decided to walk the length of the beat for a "recce". With some knowledge of the beat I chose to fish the downstream end, past the shallow slack water into the deeper faster flow. This proved to be a good choice as I caught five barbel, 1 just over 10 lbs, 1 - 9 lbs, 2 - 8 lbs and 1 about 4 lbs, 5 chub to 5 lbs and 2 eels. What a day! Thank you Don for our interesting chat and a well managed beat. Another wonderful day on the Wye. Thank you W.U.F.

No barbel. First time on the Wye. So much to learn. Very enjoyable though.

2 Chub

Despite getting soaked - twice - a very productive day! The work on the swims is excellent, so thanks to the landowner - who has also removed the big snag that used to hamper landing fish on the bottom swim on the near bank. Fished 3 swims - 2 on the far bank (the very bottom and just up from the large tree) and the bottom swim on the near bank - and had barbel & chub from them all. Fish were all caught on 2 x 8ml or 10ml elipse pellets with either micro pellets in a closed end feeder or groundbait & pellets in a cage feeder. Also big thanks to the local who gave me the tip on where to fish the swim above the tree (45 degrees downstream, towards the tree stump and 2/3rds out). One thing to be aware of is that the juvenile ducks will take your bait later in the day. I managed to hook one on small pellets, but was thankfully able to get him in, wrap him in a towel and remove the hook - hopefully he will have learnt, but be wary of them. Barbel were from 4.5lb to 8.5lb, including one fish with a lot of predator damage, and chub from 3lb to just under 6lb. A VERY good day on a much improved beat.

10 Barbel, 20 Chub

A superb day in beautiful secluded surroundings. The river was relatively low. All the fish came from the faster water near to the parking area. We caught steadily throughout the day. All fish fell to pellet and groundbait feeder. First time on the Wye. Definitely coming back!

5 Barbel, 2 Chub