It was a truly glorious day; as you said, the colour came out as the water dropped and the heavy mist stayed all day to keep the temperature up.Troydog wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:11 pm The river is perfect. Height 1.5m and falling, colour 4/10 on the Heinz Tomato soup scale, temperature 7.4 deg C, as it was yesterday.
So I changed swims and changed baits. After 14 perch averaging one and a half pounds yesterday, today resulted in 16 roach with the best three weighing about 1lb 12 ounces. Half the other fish did not need the landing net. Ive had some three dozen two pound roach from the Wye these last 40 years, so I don’t weigh fish that I don’t think will be ‘twos’.
I hope that you had a good day Tengisgol.
Looks like you had a catch of roach downstream to be proud of!
It was chub, grayling and trout up at Bredwardine with a best fish of just under five pounds. I lost a grayling in the fast water that was a good fish but it was the backdrop and company that made the day for me.
That will likely be my last visit to the Wye this season, with good luck I’ll be back next summer sometime.
All the best and may all your roach be monsters.
