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Sadly Nil return but plenty of fish showing

Caught one stocked rainbow on black gnat. Bright conditions, flat calm. No other takes.

Perfect water at 1ft and clearing. Saw and fished over 2 salmon at the rock again with no success using several tube flies on an intermediate line.

Took 4 trout at 5-6pm on subsurface sedge again but no significant size. Had to leave before late evening rise once again so very frustrated with others!!

3 barbel to 6-10 and 1 mirror carp of 13-12. floating weed a problem. Swim feeder and elips pellets as bait.

Nice stretch of river. 4 of us fished most of the morning and evening for around 12 fish between us, including barbel to 7lb and chub to 4lb. All the fish came to cage feeder and pellet. Tried rolling meat for some time but to no avail.

Caught 3 barbel and 6 chub for 4 rods, very hard fishing and disapointing return from a normally good beat.

Fished early morning until lunchtime. Hooked and lost 2 salmon, second one mid teens in weight. All very frustrating - still waiting for my first Wye salmon.
Other salmon showing and it would appear there are plenty of fish in the beat today. Water visibility no more than a couple of feet so if it clears a bit more tomorrow could be very good indeed.

Nil catch return. This beat is almost unfishable. Silted in almost all its length and very overgrown almost unfishable.
This beat does not justify 4 vouchers. Fished for less than 1 hour and returned to vehicle. Not good value for money.

3 Barbel and 5 Chub

Thankfully after our pantomimes of the last two days we arrived at the beat with no mishaps other than the self-harm caused by our lack of restraint the previous evening.

The river was two feet up and tanking through carrying plenty of colour so our hopes were high although we knew it wouldn't be easy as in our experience MHC is quite difficult to fish due to the proliferation of snags in many areas, it's a real tackle eater. However, whilst the numbers of barbel caught here are often lower than other beats, the average size seems to be high with plenty of clonkers being regularly reported so it's well worth persevering with.

We weren't to be disappointed and although we had only 4 barbel and 5 chub between us (and lost loads of terminal tackle) 2 of the barbel were over 9lbs with the best going 9-11, a thoroughly deserved p.b. for TC!

It could and probably should have been better given the conditions and the effort we put in but it would be churlish to moan after 2 such fantastic, fin perfect fish!

Just a couple of other things of note.

The canoe flotillas were out in force and the number of d***heads that pilot them never ceases to amaze me and is getting progressively worse as every season goes by! I've no issue with the folks who do it properly, they've as much right as me to be on the river and I've found them universally polite and considerate but words fail me on some of the rest!

We observed a large amount of fish activity at MHC with numbers of large salmon AND barbel crashing out of the water at regular intervals throughout the day. One of the barbel that leapt out directly in front of me positively dwarfed the 9-11 I'd just seen, it was huge!