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It doesn't help that the Wye is being badly polluted by a chicken farm and I mean badly polluted too. With stinking smells and slime coating the river bed. 

They have just finished a one hour documentary about this blatent pollution into the Wye, and let's hope that heads are now going to roll and something is going to be done about it. 

And to think that the Wye was one of our best rivers just a couple of years ago.

Keith

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2 hours ago, Simon8132 said:

So my first river session is over and wow what a place the wye is. Unfortunately the conditions probably couldn’t have been worse for fishing with 30 degree plus days, super high water temperatures and super low water levels meaning there was very little margins and most of the swims were like fishing off the beach. I was concerned to learn that these conditions are really dangerous for the fish, especially the barbel and was surprised fishing wasn’t stopped were I was although I believe most other stretches it was. I certainly stopped targeting the barbel once a local explained what low oxygen levels would mean for the fish. I caught plenty of chub to just over four and a half pound, and once I started fishing into darkness found the barbel with fish upto around seven and a half pound pulling my arm off. I was also hoping to try for a Pike but was quickly advised at the local tackle shop it’s not safe for the fish to target them during the summer months. All in all a great experience and a steep learning curve. I would like to perhaps see some guidance about safe fishing conditions with your day tickets or club license as people who come from a sea or I guess and Stillwater background would be completely ignorant of this and could unwillingly harm these magnificent fish.

Congratulations, Simon. By the sound of it, given the conditions, a successful trip!

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On 6/27/2021 at 7:35 PM, Simon8132 said:

Good advice! Got my rule book Friday no lure fishing in the summer and no braid hook lengths so that’s a few things to leave at home.

Best check re baits also, many stretches of the Wye ban worms and maggots if there is the slightest chance of a salmon taking them.    Hair-rigged pellets seem accepted most places and give you a fair chance of barbel

 

 

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3 hours ago, Vagabond said:

Best check re baits also, many stretches of the Wye ban worms and maggots if there is the slightest chance of a salmon taking them.    Hair-rigged pellets seem accepted most places and give you a fair chance of barbel

Processed cheese slices can also get Barbel & Chub - open up all the slices & knead them into one big ball, then break a piece off & mould it around a big hook (size 8, 6 or 4) in the shape of an Arlsey Bomb, completely disguising the hook on a 2 foot or so tail. Then hold on to your Hat!!! (and rod)

Works even better when its allowed to Mature for a few days, but also from fresh. I found the dearer, firmer, Kraft slices balled up better than the insipid cheap ones!! I've had some cracking days on this when Meat has failed to catch. (& Pellets were unheard of on the 70's & 80's Yorkshire rivers like the Nidd & Swale)

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On 7/25/2021 at 6:19 PM, Simon8132 said:

So my first river session is over and wow what a place the wye is. Unfortunately the conditions probably couldn’t have been worse for fishing with 30 degree plus days, super high water temperatures and super low water levels meaning there was very little margins and most of the swims were like fishing off the beach. I was concerned to learn that these conditions are really dangerous for the fish, especially the barbel and was surprised fishing wasn’t stopped were I was although I believe most other stretches it was. I certainly stopped targeting the barbel once a local explained what low oxygen levels would mean for the fish. I caught plenty of chub to just over four and a half pound, and once I started fishing into darkness found the barbel with fish upto around seven and a half pound pulling my arm off. I was also hoping to try for a Pike but was quickly advised at the local tackle shop it’s not safe for the fish to target them during the summer months. All in all a great experience and a steep learning curve. I would like to perhaps see some guidance about safe fishing conditions with your day tickets or club license as people who come from a sea or I guess and Stillwater background would be completely ignorant of this and could unwillingly harm these magnificent fish.

Thanks for sharing that mate, glad you had great times, always remember catching fish is a bonus.

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Here’s the documentary that I mentioned previously about the blatant pollution of the river Wye as well as all of our other rivers.

Although the pollutions on the Wye are disgusting It’s not only the river Wye. Apparently not one of our rivers is classed as being healthy today, not a single one.

https://rivercide.tv

Keith

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Trouble is until the people in charge of the poluters are personaly punished it will go on ,pointless fining them as a company your fining the customers who pay it with increased charges the next year.If you fined the heads personally  it would stop almost overnight.

Not silly fines !fines big enough to bankrupt people and force them onto the street this should apply to all companies get rid of  LTD companies and make the owners (and workers) personally liable

A simple law "anything entering a waterway has to be cleaner than waterway it enters" will force the water companies to actually clean the water entering rivers not just remove the lumps as it does at present.And those working in the EA should be personally liable if it happens on their patch its their fault it happens and prison sentences mandatory for anyone with the slightest link to the polution area.Carrots do not work so BIG sticks are now needed to force people to do their jobs this " lessons will be learnt" cobblers obviously doesnt! Its criminal our water contains more crypto than most! https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/AER_for_2017-cryptosporidiosis.pdf

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