Sad to report the death of Gilbert Frezel who died on Friday.Well known to most anglers around the Hereford area and long time gillie on Luggs Mouth. Details of funeral etc will follow when I have them.

Otherwise didn't miss much the last few days with just a fish from Wyesham and Upper Bigswier for the week though Bigswier itself may well have added to their total. No details from there at present.

A little new water but perhaps not enough to make a real difference though with falling temperatures one would expect some more of the residents to show an interest if that floasts your boat..   Many are now advanced in their autumn colours and many of the hens could do without being caught. It's OK to catch them it seems  and risk severe damage but not to take a 30 second photographic 'air shot' as it's been described. Somewhat double standards it seems to me.


The below was posted on the Salmon Fishing Forum;

"Friend managed a lovely silver fish on trotted prawn today from Hereford ,,that's his Xmas sorted ..I'll put the pic up when I can work out how.. Our first year out on the Wye and salmon fishing ,,much to learn.. Had nothing but barbel myself ,,,go barbel fishing and can't catch one go salmon fishing and nothing but barbel,,haha."

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It could of course be a wind up from one the hundreds of barbel anglers who now fish the Wye  On the other hand it could be some ignoramus who must live on another planet if he is so ignorant of the rules.  With very few gillies and even less bailiffs it's unlikely he will be caught offending anyway.  As he says he has much to learn not least the error of his ways.   Most of the fishing on the Wye now is totally unsupervised by those who let the fishing anyway and these practices are probably more prevalent than we think.