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Water 0.78 and rising. Some colour so opted to spin.
John was first to contact a salmon fishing at the stair stage. The fish took a yellow FC but immediately surfaced, rolled and detached.
I changed to a yellow from red FC and hooked and landed a 9lb cock fish from the hole level with the sill above the rock. As the fish was landed another showed in the same spot.
These fish were moving and coincided with high tide 2.5 hours earlier. From then on the water rose throughout the evening. John Phillips accepted my invitation to fish but only contacted a 10 inch trout on the fly. When he left the river was almost .9m
Another successful day!! Up to 5 salmon for the season.

1 Salmon

The water is desperately low at the moment. I've never seen it so low. Hopefully this weekend's rain will help.
I saw many coarse fish and caught a lovely 1lb barbel I think it was. I saw a few trout, but mostly coarse fish.
I also found a poacher. Words were exchanged, and he refused to leave. I have written to the WUF about the incident.

1 Barbel

River 0.41m and clear. Took Charles to woodstream and got him roll casting with a single weighted nymph. He hooked a fish which, though not large, broke him, and he had no other offers.
We went for the last hour above the rock, where Gabe had landed a nice trout on one of his ancient wet fly patterns.
I got a few takes on dry dark olive but none hooked themselves on the lift so I went home empty handed.
A pint in the Chainbridge was just the job!!

River low and very clear. No takes early morning, due to the hot conditions stopped fishing at 10am and started again after 7pm hooked a Salmon below rock pool on a floating line size 8 double Salmon fly, fish moved forty yards upstream when the hook pulled.

River low and very clear. Not a great deal of flow. Fished a floating and intermediate head no takes to various Salmon flies. Lovely looking length of river above the bridge.

River low and very clear, caught one small Chub on my Salmon fly.

1 Chub

My first full day on this beat... the first time was an awful day and we left early. The water was very low on the Brecon scale, but there is a lot of deep water here. The first thing I did when I got in the river was frighten a 3lb trout. I hooked several of his cousins but my strike rate has been poor for some reason this year and they all got off.
I had one exciting experience though.... I was fishing for a row of rising fished and hooked one. As it moved i could see it was rather large.... I thought 'That must be 4 or 5lb... Record trout, here I come!!', but as we fought, I could see the scales were wrong for a trout. I landed a 6lb chub! It was a very fine fish and I of course returned it. I think all the other rises were chub too.
It might not be a target species, but it was an exciting fly-fishing experience, and none of us can ask more than that.

1 Chub

Fishing hard due to very clear low water conditions, caught a nice brown around 1 1/4 lb on a dry daddy.

1 Trout

Arrived at 8 a.m. 0.65 m on gauge. Nice tint. Few fish seen. A blustery day with horizontal drizzle. Delighted to hook a lively fish at the pub decking, which cartwheeled upstream to show it's displeasure. Feeler cascade held firm and a bright 12lber was landed 10 mins later. River dropped to 0.59m on the day but colour held.

1 Salmon

Caught 1 brown trout each on small mepps spinners, biggest fish about 1 1/4 lb, both returned. Both caught above bridge on hut side. Before we left 3 men appeared with rods and no tackle bags and started spinning who obviously hadn`t paid. There was a car parked in the lane above the hut but wasn`t sure if it was theirs, otherwise I would have took down the number and reported them.

2 Trout