More salmon success - River Wye June 2024

[@blondie853]

Excellent fish.Well done

[@paullking08]

Good fish. What is interesting is that I fished that beat in the 70s and 80s and the Pipes was hardly ever fished after April. Also the Island was usually fished from the island itself until the ranunculus put it out by late June. Is the large “boulder” still at the top of the Island on the left bank?

[@bentebbutt8316]

I don't think so - if it is its not something I've spotted. Suspect the beat was much better when you fished it!

[@paullking08]

It almost certainly was better. I only fished the Dukes and the furthest downstream we fished was the croy at the bottom of the Viaduct. I and a friend rented the bridge pool and the run out to about ⅓ down the island for several years. We were allowed two rods per day and there were two rods fishing the rest of the beat on the usual named day basis. We averaged 60 fish per season and the rest of beat averaged around 200. Wyesham was a separate beat and averaged around 275 but were allowed to worm whereas the Duke introduced a no bait rule and a 3 fish per day limit around 1980. Even Prince Charles had to stick to the 3 fish rule! In those days we started on 26th January and voluntarily stopped at the end of September.

[@bentebbutt8316]

@@paullking08 - wow! - lucky to get 3 in a season now!

[@paullking08]

Especially when you consider that being local we didn’t fish all day, we tended to fish for a couple of hours starting about 2 hours after high tide so we could go for the fresh fish coming in or in the evening when it became a social event with a couple of us sitting on a bench opposite the island taking the p*** out of the angler fishing. When the ranunculus put the island out every fish that went upstream of Monmouth had to pass through a gap of about 4 metres where the boulder I mentioned been dropped in to create a lie that produced 80% of our fish!

[@brianramsay6866]

Well done cracking fish.

[@bentebbutt8316]

Thanks 👍

[@troywales983]

i fished all of those beats in the 80s and 90,s biggest salmon i had off those beats was 35lb the most salmon i caught in one session off those beats was 46 , best session i ever had on the wye was 122 salmon ,it was a great river back then .its knackerd now .

[@bentebbutt8316]

@@troywales983 amazing and very sad in equal measures!

[@troywales983]

@@bentebbutt8316 they where short sessions not seasons ,

[@stevedawes2129]

Good scrap