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A good days fishing with the fish taking the fly most of the day. Fishing from 10:00 to 17:00, with a break for lunch. Weather cold and grey but mostly dry and river running well. Accidentally Caught one One Out of season trout and 23 Graylings of various sizes with 4 fish over 13 inches, the largest being 17 inches.

1 Trout, 23 Grayling

Second time I’ve visited this beat, the first time I was disappointed as the beat map shows access all the way down one bank almost all the way back to Newbridge-on-Wye however this isn’t the case as the path ends at a house a short way into the woods and accessing the river is almost impossible.
This time I crossed the footbridge and found the river much more accessible. Today though the river was very powerful after recent rain and still carrying a little colour, wading was quite difficult and finding feeding fish even more so. I eventually found a few fish rising very intermittently in a slack behind a fallen tree, I managed to rise one to a dry fly, which frustratingly I missed, this turned out to be the only chance I was to get. The wind started to get quite wild blowing leaves into the river by the thousand so gave up and went for a warm and a pint instead.

Barbel from the woods and chub and eel from the meadow. Moved around to try to find the fish but struggled using feeder/pellets/paste. Eel came to luncheon meat.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Fantastic day on a beautiful stretch, We caught 10 Barbel and 12 chub between 3 of us.
All fish came on pellets.
Biggest Barbel was 9lb 1oz, all cub were averaging 21/2 to 3lb. We also caught lots of Dace on the stick float with maggots, there are loads of Dace in the Wye at present which is a great sign for the future, some are the herring type but most are a couple of ounces. In a couple of seasons they should be a decent size.

10 Barbel, 12 Chub

No fish

Nice venue and good access to river which looked fine, fast but not too high. Weather was bright with a strong wind from lunchtime. Parked up in second parking area after talking to Game keeper / Owner who said it was not fishing well the day before due to Bright Sunshine.
I fished a steady glide below the parking, current was faster than it looked and 60g feeder did not hold bottom, 75g ledger did also tried float trotting (at speed), few bites on ledger but only managed some Gudgeon . I should have moved down stream to slower water and not settled in one spot - my bad.
Great views of a family of Red Kites which were around most of the day.

2 Other

AP from Wirral and SN from Cheshire. Difficult day with an awkward wind. River falling away, but seemed to colour up in the afternoon.
SN had 2 grayling on a dry. His first ever so he was happy. AP had 3 grayling and a small brownie on nymphs.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Slow start with no fish for first 6 hours but ended up with 9 barbel and 2 chub on pellet feeder.

9 Barbel, 2 Chub

River conditions were excellent, slightly high and absolutely gin clear. The wind was fairly strong blowing leaves into the river which were a pain at times. We caught many grayling in most pools, the long flat glides were stuffed with fish with very little in the heads of the runs. Best methods where Long Lining and the Trio using heavy bugs. Natural patterns such as caddis were favoured with pink taking very little. We did hook one salmon around 12-15lb which lept around the pool before coming off. An excellent beat with a variety of water - can't wait to get back there.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling