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Low water and low skills meant only three small grayling caught.
I disturbed another fisher, a merganser ( I think ).
However the day was made when at around 3pm an imprssive set of ripples from an eroded bank under my feet resolved themselves into an adult otter which unconcernedly walked out into full sight onto the gravel bank less than 10m away, stopped and then continued on his way!
After that it didn't seem to matter too much what happened.

3 Grayling

Nothing caught fishing through the afternoon till dusk.

Quite a good day weather-wise with only a slight breeze and two light showers. River is still very low with quite a bit of streamer weed drifting through to make life tricky. Concentrated on the faster water although tried a couple of spots further up the beat. Fish came mid-morning and late afternoon to pellets without any bites or signs between. Noise and diesel smell from the water extraction pump is a bit distracting. This stretch is, for the most part, wide and slow with lots of streamer and might well fish a lot better once its had a good flush through. Thanks WUF.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Enjoyable, sunny day in the deeper water at the top end. No action for the first few hours. Then an enforced siesta, due to the unrelenting canoe traffic between 11am and 3-30pm. However, a quieter evening produced 3 nice barbel to 7.5lb between 5pm and 7pm. All action on pellets.

3 Barbel

6 trout all on legered worm with 2 feet from weight to hook. Poly ball on hook to keep worm off bottom. Fished just by the house. Casting out about 50 yards. Rocky bottom snapped a few fish on the way in.

6 Trout

Water very low with constant weed coming down during the day. No fish landed but did get broken by a monster late in the day. Wonderful scenery and environment, in the words of Arnie, "we will be back".

Fished unsuccessfully for Salmon in the hope that fish would be running but no such luck. We did see four or five salmon rising in the first half of the day but these may have been resident fish. Ideally needs another 6-8 inches on the river before the fish return.
Nontheless a beautiful beat and the owner of the water came to visit us and was especially kind and courteous, going so far as to lend me some spare waders as mine were full of holes! Cannot thank him and the Wye & Usk Foundation enough.

Fished the previous day at Chainbridge in vain for salmon so fished for trout instead. The beat here is particularly beautiful with abundant wildlife which makes a wonderful place to get away from it all. The trout were particularly wily here but eventually took three small wild browns using a daddy long legs fished on the surface. The trout here are particularly abundant but with the river in spate some of the deeper lies would hold good salmon too. All in all a wonderful days fishing and will certainly be back!

3 Trout

This water normally produces good barbel catches but to have a blank barbel return is unusual. Tried several methods and baits to no avail. Thank goodness for chubbies.

3 Chub

No fish caught had a salmon swirl to the fly in the Vanstone pool, several fish showing there, mostly coloured. A Good days
fishing. Top end of beat could do with strimming access points to pools as its heavily overgrown.