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18.30hrs, had seen grilse jumping below island last few days from our home. River low enough (just!) to wade out to island. Had one grise of 5 or 6lbs on small flying c with single hook and Wye weight above to hold it down.
19.30hrs, bottom pool of beat, only 15ft from bank in shallow eddy, 3 barbel largest weighed at 9lb 10oz on 20mm halibut pellet and loose fed sweetcorn in area.
21.00hrs saw salmon jump by Wharf Pool on edge of flow so put small flying c back on and similar size fish to first caught, this one was deeper in body and jumped clear several times.
All salmonoids released in water unharmed. Mixed evening !

Saw and touched nothing all day. Water dropping and clearing, should be good for weekend. Not sure how one fishes the right bank when water that high? Too high for me to risk on my own.
I lied, I lost one. A canoe about 11.10am, gave a good fight until the hook came free LOL

None seen, none caught.
Thankyou

River only 2 foot above normal level but still pushing through with colour dropping out and some weed visable a third way accross and bottom in the side.
I fished the middle to lower stretch and found the Chub feeding in great numbers following recent spawning and some even still in spawn. The Barbel were either slower to the bait or not so hungry as I finished the day with 27 Chub to 4lb 8oz and 12 Barbel to 8lb 5oz.
It was good to see numbers of fry have survived the floods even if they were small.
Excellent information from Colin Richardson and customer service from Wye and Usk.

Last day and a bit more cloud cover. I've had an enjoyable day catching 20 Chub over 2lbs with the two biggest at 4lbs 12ozs and 5lbs, plus 3 Barbel to 8lbs. P has fished the waterworks end of the meadow for a 6lb Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 2ozs. A has caught 2 Barbel to 7lbs 14ozs sharing the last swim on the meadow with J who had 3 Barbel to 7lbs 3ozs. Bait and tactics the same. Canoe traffic very heavy today, 99.9% are fine but one or two today were a pain, it's incredible how such well spoken people can be so bad mannered!! All in all we've throughly enjoyed ourselves. Restrictions on our accomodation meant we were fishing at the least productive times of the day but we still all caught Barbel every day we fished. Many thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation and particularly Don who was his usual helpful and accomodating self, a true gent!

Ken decided to fish Wyebank all day today but it fished hard with him managing 1 Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 8ozs. Many thanks to Don for all his help this week. We'll be back.

5 barbel and 4 good chub. Almost a different river from conditions 5 days earlier. Level dropped and more swims fishable, and the pace over the fast sections reduced. I made a point of keeping away from these snaggy areas. Two of the barbel had bad tears caused by hooks. Farmer just cut barley, so made the long walk down easier.

River 0.7m but weather scorchio. Pub garden was more inviting. Walked the river with mate at 3.30pm. Started fishing shady bits at 5.30pm and continued till 10pm. Not a salmon seen. Barometer dropping and a poor evening rise. In spite of this 4 trout give my fly some hassle on the 15footer. At roughly 2lbs, 11/2lbs, 8oz and 4oz they were slightly outgunned and returned. Enough of this [long?] hot dry Summer let's get on with the fishing!

5 rainbow floating worm.

On initial arrival I was rather dissapointed with the accesability of the swims and to be honest, if it were at all muddy or the river were up I would not have risked the clamber down to them. Far too dangerous but luckily it was a sunny, dry day and of the 5 swims available my brother fished one that was at the river level and I chose one which needed the full length of my telescopic landing net handle to reach the water. Had a great day 4 Barbel, largest of which was pushing double figures and at least 8 chub, the largest was a stonker pushing the 5lb mark, the rest were around 3lbs with a couple of 1.5lbs. My brother had 2 Barbel around the 4lbs mark and numerous chub between half a pound to one and a half pounds. Be warned, swims not for the feint hearted.