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River dropping quickly but still high and hard to fish most swims, still great to out though! Chub mainly small 8-10 oz but barbel a good size with three of them 8lb plus, all on feeder fished pellet and maggot.

7 Barbel, 13 Chub

4 x trout 10-15 inches, Woodcock and Hare's Lug, Dark Moorgame. River very high this morning with gauge at 1ft 5 inches, although reasonably clear. Also an upstream gale growing steadily in strength. I could sum up today as darned difficult, but as I was passing through on the way to Swansea I stopped off in Brecon and gave it a try. There was a brief hatch of large dark olives about 1 o'clock.

4 Trout

Last day of river season dawned, mild but windy, river had dropped 2 feet overnight and lost a fair bit of colour.
Chub interested in bread from the off, managed 6 upto 4 1/2lb, great condition, all tucked up under the snags,
fed mash bread and fished liquidised bread in the feeder, had lots of interest in big flake pieces, but had to drop to smaller hook size and baits to convert to fish on the bank.
No barbel activity on pellet or meat, water temperatures on way up but still below 6 degrees, as always couple of days on Wye great way to end the river season

6 Chub

River still high and cold but dropping. No bites.

Booked as a present. Second day for the two anglers with river levels dropping slightly from the day before but still pushing through very fast. There were three anglers already in the meadow section on arrival so fished down near the village. One barbel was hooked but lost in an underwater snag.

My friend and I tried to fish, but the river was just to high and coloured.

River brown but dropping fast, down about 1.5M from previous days. All looked good for some end-of-season Barbel, but no-one had told them that! Only fish of the day was a 4lb Chub. No other bites all day even after changing baits, fishing in the slacker margins etc. Now looking forward to the summer.

1 Chub

The river was down about 0.7 m from the previous day but a huge volume of water was still barrelling down. I started off in a swim that was exposed to the rising wind, and this and the current made fishing difficult (and quite uncomfortable). Eventually I moved into the woodland and found some relatively slack water and finished with a couple of chub. No sign of the barbel today.

2 Chub

Unfortunately today was not a good day either. Water still cold and still very high, plus the Beat seemed to lack any sign of life at all. Even the Canadian Geese were sitting on the bank looking at us as though we were mad. We concentrated our efforts at the downstream end where the water was a lot slower, but to no avail. However, we will be back to pay this Beat another visit.

A beautiful spring day, warm sun and blue skies helped to soften the blow of the state of the river that greeted us. It was only a few feet from the top of the bank and was tanking through but was receding so we decided to give it a go. We found two swims in the trees, with the church at our backs, that gave some slack but not much. Not a fish was caught although JA did have one on briefly but lost it.