Prospects & General Comments:
Rivers Re-open for Fishing Thursday 16th August, 2018 Readings from our own monitoring and the Environment Agency have shown a welcome drop in water temperatures in both rivers over the past week.
On average, they have fallen around 2 or 3 degrees with the cooler air temperatures, cloud cover and much needed rain. We have therefore advised Passport fishery owners to reopen salmon and trout fishing on the middle and lower reaches of both rivers. Passport fishing on the upper rivers remains open as before.
Despite the conditions, the evening trout rise has been good, especially on the Usk. After a salmon-less July, the fresh water and drop in temperatures should also have woken up a few fish in the lower reaches of the Wye.
Coarse fishing on most middle and lower Wye Passport beats remains open and has been better than expected. Trotting hemp and corn for silver fish (and the odd surprise) has been a successful tactic, as has concentrating on the faster gullies for chub and barbel.
Some owners decided to suspend all fishing a few weeks ago and it will be their decision on when to re-open - we will keep you updated. As always, we ask everyone who does fish to ensure they follow catch and release practices very carefully, keeping the fish in the water at all times and allowing adequate time for them to fully recover.
Fishing late in the day is usually the best time in summer for all fish and for the middle and lower Wye, it avoids the majority of the canoes too. Evening tickets are bookable online these days and are proving very popular - which is hardly surprising considering the summer we've had! Adult & child tickets are now available online for some beats too.
Looking forward, we plan to have the first temperature monitoring equipment in place soon giving you live readings via our website. This EA-funded project will help anglers to make decisions on what tactics to employ while also giving useful information for fishery management.
For those with a BT Sport subscription, the latest episode of "Fishing On The Bank" with Andy Ford featured an evening on the river Usk and an interview with WUF's CEO, Simon Evans. The episode can be viewed here.
Finally, the July fishing reports are now viewable on the Fishing Passport site.
All the best from WUF.
The evening trout fishing on both the Usk and Wye has been very good over the past week

At last some fresh water for the Wye and Usk! We will be adding live water temperature readings to our webcams soon

The latest episode of "Fishing on the Bank" on BT Sport features trout fishing on the Usk and an interview with WUF's CEO, Simon Evans


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