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Second time on this beat and it looked a little low but promising with some decent flow through the near bank gulley, but it was really hard going and the barbel were playing hard to get. A lovely spot to spend a day all the same, we probably missed the best of day as the attraction of a few pints of Wye valley ale drew us away.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

A disappointing day, I was unable to contact Terry over the weekend prior to my visit on the Monday despite leaving a message & 4-5 calls, so I opted to fish beat 5 same as last year, the swims were difficult to access apart from where the cattle had entered the water: this posed a problem of it's own when the over confident young bulls decided they was thirsty, be warned if they are in the field go to a different beat they are dangerous, this would possibly have been avoided if I could have contacted Terry(maybe on holiday as he is usually very good).
8 cormorants & 1 mink visited during the day along with 4 eastern Europeans on opposite bank poaching with spinning rods who I reported immediately to WUF who then I believe was able to contact Terry. I didn't receive a call back to confirm whether they was apprehended or not.
WUF Note: Our thanks to AW for reporting the incident immediately to us. Terry visited the beat (and neighbouring fisheries) later that day but unfortunately could not find the poachers.

I caught 2no Perch approx l.1b in size. We also found a chap fishing one day with a spinning rod and asked him for his permit to fish this water. He could not so we told him to leave as this was private beat for us to fish under Wye & Usk Foundation.
We found the fishery fantastic place to fish. The water level was a bit low but the barbel were in deeper water. Not a lot of swims to choose from. Lots of salmon jumping 10.1b/15.1b in size.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

River very low ... all the fish were taken in fast water, nymph suspended under an indicator ... hooked and lost a couple.

5 Trout

Only fished for an hour on the way up to fish Craig Llyn.
Just fished the Rock pool through, no joy.

Lovely Day on Craig Llyn. Started at the lower limit where I met the new owner. Nice to see someone who clearly will take care of the place. New styles and benches in place and bank clearances made to make life easier. My thanks to him for still allowing the WUF to use the beat, it's a personal favourite of mine.
The river still has the peaty tinge it has had for a few weeks, and the water temperature seemed cold for this time of the year, can only assume the dams have released some water. Level pretty low though.
No fish from the bottom section, which is normally such a good spot but picked up 4 four grayling in the pool below the island, all around 10-12 inches.
Moved upstream and waded right through the stretch up to the channel with limited success, only a couple of small fish in the pocket water. That was until I got to the section directly below the channel, where a lovely grayling measuring 19 inches took a weighted nymph in a foot of water and took off downstream. Took over 10 minutes to get in the net.
The channel, which is not somewhere I have had a lot of success before, also fished well, took 6 fish mainly from fish coming from depth to take my dry fly, and a couple on deep fished nymphs. The top section was a bit slow and the fish all seemed to be in broken water, where a took a few more up to 16 inches.
Lovely day in a lovely place!

2 Trout, 13 Grayling

Great day, we arrived near to mid day and straight away could see fish rising to the dry. Worked slowly up the river and took 5 fish before wrapping up at about 17:00. 4 were small, 1 a little over 1 1/4lbs. There was one that got way, always is - goes without saying it was huge. As ever, small dark olive CDC emerger flies worked well.

5 Trout

Very enjoyable days fishing. 8 barbel and 2 chub caught on pellet feeder.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Had a red letter day on this stretch. Started at the upper reaches and fished back to the access path. The upper field is full of swan and goose poo so care needs to be taken if attempting to fish here its disgusting. Barbel caught weighed from 4lb up to 9lb 14oz and all fought like demons. The floating weed was a problem from about 10am till 6pm but stepping up the gear ensured that the rigs stayed in place. The chub weighed between 1lb and 5lb 5oz. Cracking day on a lovely beat and my father had his PB barbel at 9lb 6oz so he was well happy!!! Thank you WUF we will be back...!

1 Trout, 10 Barbel, 14 Chub, 1 Other

A few hours 3.30pm - 7.30pm. A glance over the bridge at the start of beat will give you an idea of size and quantity of fish in here. There is a great head of fish. They are however incredibly spooky, and river level was extremely low. Recent rains had obviously had little if any affect here. The soft landing of a dry fly was often enough to send them bolting round the pools in a panic. Landed one 10 incher, lost another 2 fish, one of which was clearly well over 2lb. Unlucky today. 2 large salmon parr were also caught. On a good day, with a decent flow of water and a fly hatch some great sport could be had here.

1 Trout, 2 Other