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Our first time on the Wye, so we wasted a fair bit of time fishing swims that looked fishy but weren't. Eventually we found where the fish were and were happy with the results. River was lowish but with a little colour - downstream wind a bit of a nuisance. Barbel came to meat or pellet (around 7 lb each). Lovely spot and will certainly try this stretch again.

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

River still very low and now with a green algee colour in the water. Angler 1 hooked 3 barbel but only 2 landed and angler 2 had 1 chub.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

One rainbow trout about 1.5lbs caught on spinner.

1 Trout

Heavy Showers and river rising fast. 8 Brown Trout to 11", 1 Grayling 10".

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished from 8 - 3 p.m. As expected, no fly and no rises, and the river low at 1.01 m on the EA guage, so I checked out some of the streamier water and decided to see how the fish responded to spiders. Had ten grayling and four trout either on a GRHE and partridge spider, or on a furnace red tag on the middle dropper. Only salmon parr on various nymphs on the point. Had another lady on a HE emerger. Most grayling 8-10" but also two bigger fish of 15". No trout over 10". Water level, wind and sunshine considered, quite a pleasing result on the day.

4 Trout, 11 Grayling

Fish taking something sub surface, but nothing I had in my box. Wind was quite strong making dry fly and upstream nymph difficult. More excuses!
40 plus goosanders didn't help!

9lb 2oz Barbel caught on the lower beat in the large swim by the tree in the open field. Caught on 10mm halibut pellet wrapped in halibut paste, cast halfway out to the weed bed with 4, 6 and 10mm halibut pellets catapulted in the area. Hard days fishing as the river was so low and it was so bright but a magnificent fish caught. Happy days.

1 Barbel

Three small fish taken on different flies during evening session, first field above bridge - bibio, blue partridge and black gnat. Best fish just over 6 inches. 7ft wt3 rod and line, 6ft leader with 3lb tippet. No droppers.
Water very low and clear. Access to bank above bridge difficult due to barbed wire fence but beautiful spot, well worth the effort and day ticket price. Parking not ideal but road not exactly busy.
Online booking worked really well for my circumstances, short business trip. First time fished in Wales, hopefully not the last. Many thanks.

3 Trout

River was perhaps a little low. There are some really nice deep pools and runs which are surprisingly deep for what appears to be such a small river in certain places. Few fish seen, 3 nice trout all taken deep on bead head nymphs. Casting in places is not easy and the trees have a good dozen of my flies - perhaps I'm just not a very good fisherman. If there was some trimming of the overhead branches and clearing out the side, it would be a much easier fish - however perhaps then it wouldn't be in the wild stream section!

3 Trout

Fished a couple of hours in the evening, mainly with the purpose of testing out a new switch rod. There were plenty of sedges about and a few blue winged olives hatching but not much surface activity from the trout. Caught a few up to about 13" and a small grayling, mostly on nymphs in the faster water with a couple falling to a black klinkhammer.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling