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10lb cock fish from the rock pool on a aurora cascade and a 15lb cock fish on a Usk grub from the big rock on the bridge pool, took over 100yds of backing off the reel had to follow it right down the pool to land it ,

2 Salmon

Lost two salmon in Orchard fishing a Cascade #8 all within 20 mins. Inspection showed one of the hooks was slightly bent, so a lesson learned. Gutted is an understatement, but a memorable day none the less. Fish both showed after taking and were very clean this late in the season. Water still a little coloured.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A lovely day on the beat. Our second via the 2016 Atlantic Salmon Trust auction lot. A very good water height looked promising although it was also a little coloured, which made for difficult wading on dodgy knees on an unfamiliar stretch of the river. We saw a few fish, I caught a suicidal brownie whilst trying to lengthen my line and also had a couple of tugs from something other than a rock. An enjoyable day notwithstanding.

A lovely end of season day on this great stretch of water. Shirt sleeve fishing to rising fish. 3 wbt best 1.5 lbs.
Thanks to all at WUF.

3 Trout

We parked by the river near the pump which was running. We had a long walk to the top end of the fishery there are few swims but there are some. David caught a chublet to start on maggot followed by a nice 9lb Barbel on hair rigged sweetcorn. The a whopping 7lb Chub came to his net using spiced luncheon meat this time.
Colin could only manage a Chublet to maggot and two 31b Chub to luncheon meat.
Thanks Wye and Usk.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub, 2 Other

Fantastic day trotting for dace boosted by chub/chublets catching at 20-25 fish per hour the dace are in the 6-8oz range and chub/chublets 8oz-1.5lb. The 4 barbel were caught using pellet and feeder 2 around 5lb and 2 baby barbel about 1lb.

4 Barbel, 120 Other

Wed 28 water high and coloured, nothing seen. Thur 29 water high and clearing nothing seen.

Little Run at 2.40 pm 15lb cock fish to Rosie Lowry on a Willie Gunn. River was 1.2 m and fairly coloured.

1 Salmon

2 salmon fishing novices trying their luck again on the Usk. Encouraged by the falling water a catch on the beat the previous evening. Bari the owner was generous with his advice and also enthusiastic re prospects. We arrived to find more colour than expected and tried with various FCs, devons and mepps but no connections or surface activity during the day. 2 trout of about 12oz as bicatch in the flats above the bridge. Thank you to Dave, the season rod, for his company. A really enjoyable day on a picturesque beat with a convenient pub for lunch (soon to close for a fortnight as new management take over).

2 Trout

A strange sort of day; summer's end a nighing on one of Housman's rivers (OK, he was more of a Teme and Severn man), a marriage proposal spelt out in nightlights under the Bridge (did he - or she - say "yes", I wonder?)and the grayling not being where they should be.
I note that a couple of previous correspondents have had trouble locating grayling these last few weeks. I had a similar issue today. The nasty downstream wind and a low, clear river may have been factors; but I suspect that it was largely down to the unseasonably warm weather fooling the Grayling into thinking that it was still summer. Whatever the cause, the grayling were not where I expected them to be today, with banker runs not producing and, with one exception - when I picked up 5 fish in as many casts, from a non-descript piece of water just below the weir - none of the 5 or 6 fish per run that I associate with Lyepole at this time of year. The trout were all small, the majority of the grayling were in the 8-10" bracket, with a couple at 12" plus. All on the same Endrick Spider.
That's probably it for me this year on the Lugg. Roll on the Mayfly

4 Trout, 18 Grayling