Poor conditions still remain with high water temperatures, up to 68 degrees in pl;ace and very poor visibility especially on lower beats. Isn't water quality supposed to have been improved.
As in other river related things actuality often bears little reality to what you are being told.

No fish reported yesterday so far but Bigswier have added a few lately and are now on 60 fish for the season with some anglers far more successful than others, though I suppose it always will be.  'Plenty of fish present but just how many is debatable and what impact would they have if spread throughout the 80 or so miles of river above.  We are certainly not going to find out in the short term it seems with not much sign on the horizon for any real rain apart from thunderstorms predicted tonight.

Ever increasing number of canoeists, even in places which did not usually have heavy traffic, is burgeoning and debasing the Wye as a serious salmon fishing river.  Condition in some areas are being made intolerable by sheer numbers and behaviour. Add in the now increasing numbers of 'wild swimmers' and the problem of Disneyland Wye is an ever growing problem.b  There must be some control by the EAsurely othersie charging anglers to fish will be something of a joke.

Recent information too that Gooseanders are present in serious numbers on the Wye on on the Usk too they are a problem with rather more Cormorants in seems on that river,I suppose related to the number of lake and reservoir roost available in that catchment.  Not much point in trying to increase juvenile salmon numbers when predation on them is increasing seemingly year on year.  Which I wonder would have the biggest impact. Reduced predation on a big scale, or attempts to 'restore' habitat..
At least the former would be a visible reduction -the other a rather more debatable one.
Certain areas of the upper river are mostly kept canoe free by various deals one way or another whilst an adjacent section of supposedly non navigable river is pounded out of sight.  I'm all right Jack seems to be the way of it there.