12LB Fish from Sheephouse to Robin Webb. F/C
One from Lysdinam on fly Steve Grimwood.
Two for Steve Roberts from Lyn Em 8/9lbs
Ross 12lb John Daniels.
See below part of a summing up of the current Wye situation p;osted on another forum. One has to say amen to that -absolutely right.
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Unlike the main run on the Wye, the Monnow fish were late running mostly 2SW fish, usually arriving in September or later, and unless they had been sitting in the 12 miles of main stem below the confluence for a few months, the Monnow fish contributed virtually nothing to the historical Wye catch nor will any increase in spawning success as a result of the opening up of the Monnow have any discernible impact on the Wye spring run. The best that will happen is that it provides a sanctuary for representatives of the species but in the context of the WUF raison d'être it is completely wasted money.
As it is generally accepted that any fish ascending a newly opened trib are going to be strays it may well be that their progeny have a greater propensity to stray and this might explain why the number of fish passing the Osbaston counter is somewhat disappointing and, as far as I know, no fish have been recorded passing the weir as part of a spring or even early summer run and we mustn't overlook the fact that smaller fish might be sea trout anyway.
Looking at the big picture I think that the main difficulty is that nobody actually really knows what the problem(s) that caused the crash was, nobody is even absolutely sure that was an in river issue, and until you know the problem, in an attempt to solve the (unknown) problem, what you get is the "shotgun" effect, firing bits of effort in many directions, the directions being driven more by the availability of funding streams than science in some cases. It's not even really demonstrable that any one action has had an effect, all that can be said is that the river is improving or not, and if it is, that it could be down to any, none or even all of the interventions (including SNR) but none of this can be proven, especially when rivers without interventions show similar improvement that clearly indicates an out of river influence is at least partly responsible.
Just a final observation on stocking, on some rivers, very large numbers of unclipped fry obtained as part of a SNR or similar project are planted out into tribs, often above impassable obstructions, inevitably some will return, genetically no different to SNR fish, most to the same system, some to others, but nobody could identify them if captured so the success of any hatchery scheme where this happens is completely impossible to quantify (or rubbish).
As it is generally accepted that any fish ascending a newly opened trib are going to be strays it may well be that their progeny have a greater propensity to stray and this might explain why the number of fish passing the Osbaston counter is somewhat disappointing and, as far as I know, no fish have been recorded passing the weir as part of a spring or even early summer run and we mustn't overlook the fact that smaller fish might be sea trout anyway.
Looking at the big picture I think that the main difficulty is that nobody actually really knows what the problem(s) that caused the crash was, nobody is even absolutely sure that was an in river issue, and until you know the problem, in an attempt to solve the (unknown) problem, what you get is the "shotgun" effect, firing bits of effort in many directions, the directions being driven more by the availability of funding streams than science in some cases. It's not even really demonstrable that any one action has had an effect, all that can be said is that the river is improving or not, and if it is, that it could be down to any, none or even all of the interventions (including SNR) but none of this can be proven, especially when rivers without interventions show similar improvement that clearly indicates an out of river influence is at least partly responsible.
Just a final observation on stocking, on some rivers, very large numbers of unclipped fry obtained as part of a SNR or similar project are planted out into tribs, often above impassable obstructions, inevitably some will return, genetically no different to SNR fish, most to the same system, some to others, but nobody could identify them if captured so the success of any hatchery scheme where this happens is completely impossible to quantify (or rubbish).
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