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Clear, bright sunny day. A beautiful stretch of river, but unfortunately spoilt by the noisy smelly abstraction pump that runs all day close to the most productive looking swims. I use Wye and Usk regularly, but this was a disappointing day due to lack of fish and the noisy environment.

The river came up 1.5 feet overnight after some rain upstream. It gave the (low) river a bit more colour. Together with heavy clouds, some drizzling rain and a strong wind, conditions were ideal. All bites came in approximately 1 golden hour between 17:30pm and 18:30pm.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

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2 Barbel, 2 Chub

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Despite the bright conditions, DW 9 barbel all on pellet DS 3 Barbel and 4 chub on boilie. DS had lots of chublets on stick float looking good for the future stocks. Weed a bit of a problem coming down the river.
We have spent 4 days fishing Wye and Usk Foundation water, 2 at Lower Carrots and 2 at White House. Have enjoyed every day on this lovely river. For accommodation we stayed at the Falcon House B&B at How Caple which we highly recommend. For evening meal we went to The Moon at Mordiford which have a good menu at reasonable prices and serve food up to 9 which is handy for the evening session.

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

River up about 18 ins on summer level. Good colour. DS 3 Barbel and 2 chub on boilie. DW 2 barbel 2 chub. One on rolling meat other on pellet. Chub on meat (Garlic Spam).

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

We all used feeders and pellets for hook bait. I had high expectations of this venue but sadly I was a little disappointed. Absolutely no swims had been cut out for fishing, we walked the whole stretch and still didn't know where to fish because of lack of swims, unlike the opposite bank where locals had proper cut out swims to fish and at a fraction of the price. Having said all that we did all catch chub and barbel in the areas we ended up fishing which was on the concrete near where you park and on the beach.

13 Barbel, 14 Chub

A new fishery to the 3 of us. We were advised to fish the slower water at the top of the beat. It did not look particularly inviting. We struggled to find fish.
Ledgered Pellet found the fish that were caught.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Found the river a foot up and with a tinge of colour. Expected the bright conditions to make the fishing a bit trickier than normal. Excellent days sport, stunning surrounding. Couldn't really ask for more. Thank you WUF
Regards EPR

15 Barbel, 13 Chub