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Common sense suggested it would be a waste of time but I just wanted to go fishing. In the event it was an enjoyable and productive session. The Arrow was very low but the pools below and immediately above the weir provided some sport. I tried in vain to tempt fish on the surface with a variety of dries. A change to Klinkhammer Duo with a GRHE below resulted in seven fish up to 10”, all to the nymph.

7 Trout

Half a dozen quality Grayling excepted, a day of small things.
Mindful of other correspondents bagging up on the dry, even though there was very little rising, I used a Klinkhammer, fishing the stream, for much of the day. Plenty of fish came up for it but mostly, very small. Weighted nymphs - fished upstream or on the drift NZ style - produced most of the better fish. No complaints; but I felt I should have caught more. Down to the thing on the other end of the rod I am afraid; I missed a lot of fish today, and came away thinking that I had used the wrong method at the wrong time. The above numbers are estimates; these days I lose count once I get past three ...

12 Trout, 12 Grayling

Arrived at half three to fish the evening after the majority of canoes had been through. Fished pellet with feeder and had 9 barbel, they were all tiny maybe only a few ounces each and about 5 inches in length. Slightly frustrating they were not bigger but on the plus side looking good for the future. Nice evening in the sun in beautiful surroundings, hopefully back in a couple of weeks.
Thanks WUF.

9 Barbel

A lovely stretch of water. Only 5 barbel caught, all on pellet and feeder. Fished 2 swims from around 7am to 3pm. On a better day I'm sure we would have caught more. Note that as others have said, it is quite a long walk from the parking.

5 Barbel

Stunning day. So quiet we could hear the beat of the wings of the crows flying 100 metres away. Chap came along doing a bit of falconry. We had two wild carp, one 39cm long, the other 43cm long (which my son caught), both on sweetcorn. The larger one just on a float and the smaller using a surface float arrangement. Dead calm water, at some points it was so flat that ripples gave interference and Moire patterns.

2 Other

Lovely section of river with fantastic access to the water. My son Sam and I enjoyed a fabulous day stood in the river trotting for chub with corn. We took it in turns to gillie for each other and even managed a nap on the bank. Will definitely be back to this beat, well worth the money.

35 Chub

Open ended Feeder!! Barbel around 6lb, Chub 3lb.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A lovely morning. Some fly life. Water levels low. One small fish caught but otherwise quiet.

1 Trout

This is one of the nicest beats the Wye & usk have on their books, unfortunately we arrived to find swims defiled by previous anglers litter; sweet corn tins, groundbait bags, drink containers and even open tins still full of luncheon meat! I had filled a carrier bag with rubbish before I even thought about fishing, if I was the land owner and found this it would be the end of the fishing......rant over.
WUF Note: Our sincere thanks to SM of Northants for clearing up the litter left by previous anglers. He is quite right in saying that we risk losing fisheries if anglers do not take litter away with them. Please remember that leaving litter is a breach of booking conditions and could result in the culprit(s) being prevented from making bookings on Passport beats in the future.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

A new beat for us - chosen as above the Ithon confluence so if the rains came hopefully not too coloured. The rain was mostly in Gloucestershire however.
River looked lovely - and we spooked a big trout off the shallows as we walked down the beat so the omens were good. Trout were not conspicuous in numbers in our catch however. There were lots of sedges around first thing and again later but a cold breeze sprang up in the afternoon and everything went quiet for 3 hours
Although trout were scarce of the 3 caught SG had a 16 " and JB had a 20" - both lovely fish. The grayling were excellent too - the majority around the 16" mark but several had beak scars - cormorant or heron?
So an excellent day - will certainly return to this beat although the wading is tricky - two of us went for a swim!

3 Trout, 20 Grayling