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Blank all day - not a sign of the "finny tribe". There was too much water and the flow was too fast. They had all resorted to their favourite resting places. I couldn't find these. The small pools were also moving (too) fast.
Not possible to fish upstream from the bottom pool as there are a series of impassible sheep/goat wood fences (immovable as they have been jammed - intentionally (branches locked at the top) ??).

3 trout on spinners

3 Trout

16 degrees, overcast evening. Fairly low river level. Small hatch of olives. One trout on a dry adams, few more missed. Another larger (around 20cm) on a pink shrimp from a deep hole. Lovely little stream.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Only started fishing late (about 7 pm) caught one 12 inch fish on a dry fly.

1 Trout

Lovely beat although you are only able to fish two of the three fields on the beat. For the fee paid I would have liked the option to fish in the first field.

10 Barbel, 9 Chub

My favourite beat on the WUF. Although we as had a very productive day on the bank as with other beats we visited on our trip, access to parts of the beat were unmaintained, thus unfishable. For the fee that anglers pay the upkeep of the beat should be paramount to make anglers want to return again.

18 Barbel, 20 Chub

Water low.....even with rain over night did not rise more than 4 or 5 inches.Still have caught here before at low water. N.B. When fishing the water between Upper and Lower Cannon had a chair stolen that had been tucked away out of site of the water, while I went for lunch between my morning and evening sessions. In talking to Mr Richards the farmer he tells me he has had 2 quad bikes stolen and a strimmer.
I mention this as its such a quiet, tucked out of the way place you think that your stuff will be safe, apparently not.

1 Chub

Blank for salmon. A nice warm dull day, rise in level from 10 inches to 1ft 5 inches after rain last night; one might therefore have hoped for some action. But nothing seen or touched. I hope the other rod did better later on. On the plus side, I fished some lovely fly water. This beat, which is about as rocky and wild as the upper Wye gets, may not be easy to wade but everything possible has been done to facilitate access. The new boards are a delight.

Arrived late in the afternoon hoping for an evening's fishing. Sadly, the river was rather full and brown. I assume from the previous day's rain. Nil catch