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Arrived at 7.30 after early start. River 0.71 m lovely colour and falling slowly. Perfecto. Fished hard for 8 hrs saw only two salmon show all day and no takes. Very surprising. Last chance saloon next week !
Must redress the comments by saturday's angler from London. Essentially he fished the only difficult wading spot above the bridge (rarely attempted by regulars)
To clarify and help any visitors to our lovely beat the following notes may be of assistance -
The right bank is an easier wade (but favours left handed speycasters)
Upper Rock is all wadeable up to 0.7m level depths but plenty of trip hazards. Competence and wading stick required. The stakes on upper rock is like wise a bit deeper by the last two or three.
Rock pool from the upper plat form is largely easy gravel right down to below the fallen tree on the other bank.
Wood stream is best fished from the left bank . Depth is o.k. till deepens above the bridge. Some trip hazards so wading stick advised.
From the bridge down wadeable fairly even depths but again trip hazards. All manageable with care staying close to the bank. But too deep to wade pass the willow. Wadeable after this down to cables staying close in. Below the cables too deep.
Hope this helps some of our visitors. Subject to change with winter floods!

Salmon seen, but not caught. btw - I am not impressed by the beat notes provided (I had not fished at Chainbridge before). The notes describe the wading on most of the beat as relatively easy over the gravel riverbed. I found the wading at the top of the beat (Rock pool) to be slippery mud with large boulders - positively scary with today's fairly high water level (a foot and a couple of inches on the gauge at Usk). In the faster water lower down there is indeed some gravel in the gaps between the boulders, but not much. I fished only the left bank from the wood upstream.

nil

Lovely place to fish, no luck this time but I'll have another go next year.

Perfect conditions, around six salmon seen jumping, including one very large coloured cock salmon cart wheeling out of rock pool. Used spinner and flies of different shapes and sizes but not takers

I Start fishing early ,river in nice condition and clearing a fish show below the bridge and I covered with the fly with but not interested,fished upper rocks and on my way down I had a good pull but unfortunately the line come loose ,around 11:15 river start rise with a bit more colour.Barry the owner it was very helpful

Water .8m and perfect colour. started at 10.30 and by 11.45 John has hooked and landed 3 salmon. The 4th was lost after a few minutes and was a big fish. The first two were quite red and were returned safely. The fourth was a fresh run fish and was taken weighing 13lb.

John wasn't finished, landing two nice trout on pound and half each on a quill and a silver and black FC. Both returned safely.

He reckons it was the best day's fishing in his forty years. I acted as ghillie as I was on the net more than fishing!!! I blanked. Ce la vie!!! But a day to remember for John. Well done mate!!!

4 Salmon, 2 Trout

nil, very high river

River was in flood all day, still saw a big salmon jump early morning

Great location water was high due to the rain and very coloured lost a fish while spinning near the bridge late afternoon.