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Arrived at 8 a.m. river perfect height 0.75 m and falling slowly but carrying too much colour at first. Both rods fished hard on Upper and Lower Rock. Had a hard take from a feisty 3/4 lb brownie which had me fooled for more than a couple of seconds in the current.
Went below the bridge and landed a 12lb cock fish in full tartan (Cameron of Loch Eil pattern!) on a very large Feeler Cascade tube. Swam off strongly to fulfil his destiny. Had another good pull by cables but didn't stay on.
Marked a showing fish for L.T. fishing on Garry Evans opposite bank. It promptly took his Flying C and set off on an angry run downstream followed by a leap out of the water. It was at least in the high teens but unfortunately came off.
Lovely sport on a glorious Autumn day. Prospects excellent for tomorrow's rods.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

15 grayling, all but one 12-16". 10 on dries grey duster size 16, others on nymph with a bit of red in in it. Lot of fish in the head of the runs. Be careful of those boulders they are slippy. Great day.

15 Grayling

A very comfortable and relatively snag free beat. The river doesn't offer wide scenic variations from one end to the other but does provide plenty of easily accessible swims to chose from if that is what you're after. We chose to park by the cattle grid and walked 15 minutes along the river to the top of the beat. The water was up a bit with the recent rain and a touch of colour gave us plenty hope for the day ahead.
A 5lb barbel was taken in the first 10 mins of the first bait going in. It was caught close in along the inside edge so this is where we focused our attention for most of the morning especially as weed was a problem if casting more than a third of the way over to the other side. Bright sunshine and light winds made for a pleasant day to be out but wasn't great for the fishing. All went quiet until the afternoon but we kept busy by taking plenty of smaller fish on mini baits. As the sun dropped lower we staggered the rods across the river and despite the weed doing its best to dislodge the line as soon as it went in, we managed another couple of barbel to 8lb mid river. If we had persisted with longer casts throughout the day we may well have managed a few more. Another great day and a few more lessons learnt!
Thanks to the WUF.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub, 10 Other

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12 Barbel, 12 Chub

With river fining down caught 5 barbel to 9lb 7oz and 5 chub to 4lb on meat and pellet. Very swimmy though, and escalating bright sunshine slowed the fishing. Also had a huge dace trotting.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Hard fishing - river rose overnight.

1 Chub

Had one Barbel about 8lb and 5 small Barbel of around 12oz. River was fining down after previous day and was fishable all day unlike previous day when weed and branches coming downstream meant I couldn't fish from around 5pm. Also caught 10 dace trotting maggot.

6 Barbel, 10 Other

River a foot above summer low and well coloured though clearing, water temp 12 degrees. Very pleasant day but no sign of salmon. Spinning not allowed on this fishery below 2ft (nor wading in coloured water!), or I would have been very tempted to try a small spinner in these conditions. Plenty of interest in my various doubles from out-of-season trout. Note of caution - a gigantic trunk road development scheme has started between Abergavenny and Merthyr and once you hit the A465 it's very difficult to find your way across towards Crickhowell (I went 20 miles out of my way)- suggest anglers coming from the south and east go through Abergavenny and travel via A40.

A few grayling caught in the streamier sections, together with a few salmon parr, on spider patterns.

6 Grayling

No fish. Bright sun possibly didn't help chances. Top pools inaccessible due to brambles and Himalayan Balsam. Lower pools excellent though. Thanks WUF.