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Worm. Calm. Clear. No activity.

Several fish showed during day up to about 15lb but all fairly coloured. Tried various flies from large Collie Dogs to size 16 Hairy Mary. Need some water I think, hopefully before my next sessions later in September. Getting used to jumping out of the way of misguided canoes.

Very sunny day and river very low, not ideal. Beautiful beat, well maintained. I fished from 8am to 8pm but did not see a fish (salmon or brownie). Few rising late (chub).

Caught on GRHE and black F-fly. Most fish small, only one wbt and grayling required the net. Fish in excellent condition and returned safely.

13 Trout, 1 Grayling

6 Trout

Never caught anything here or even seen a fish. Not sure I will come back again.

Although the river is my favourite place to fish and would love to be able to fish it on a regular basis my day on Saturday was a blank session due to the river being crystal clear and very low!
After walking the whole section to locate some barbel to target rather than fishing blind I eventually came across a nice looking deeper glide with barbel holding nicely in it but unfortunately another angler had beat me to it and was fishing there already from the other bank !
I did manage to find another very small group of fish in shallow water but as soon as I introduced a tiny amount of bait they spooked away never to be seen again !
Apart from my fishless trip I hope to return soon as its such a magical place

Now I know where to find the fish, had another great day at this very picturesque beat. No joy in my initial spot, but after I found where there was depth and flow it was a fish a cast - despite losing a lot of rigs initially in the weed and very rocky bottom in places. The river was very low again and absolutely gin clear, but the secret was definitely to find some depth and flow. Not a single chub all day but barbel from 5lbs to 12lbs and a total of seven doubles. All fish caught on 2x12ml sonubaits ellipse pellets glued to a hair rig on a 15 inch hook link of 12lbs breaking strain, with micro-pellets in a large drennan flat-bed closed end feeder. Not a touch on smaller pellets, boillies, ground bait in the feeder or a longer hook-link. All fish caught on my 2.25lbs test curve Daiwa Infinity specialist babel rod with 15lbs TFT Gear red mist mainline and a size 10 Guru hook. I fished until 8pm and would have stayed in to the evening if I hadn't realised my head torch had packed in! The only slight down sides to the day were the noise and activity in the National Trust property opposite, having 5 canoes hit my line despite my giving them early warning, and having to remove previous hooks and line from 3 fish - but having said all that I can't wait to get back to this excellent Wye & Usk beat.

27 Barbel

The river was running high and very coloured and only dropped slightly during the day.
No fish seen or caught.

Warm but very blustery and overcast with driving rain most of the time between 12.30pm - 4.15pm. A couple of bites on bubble float/worm near ticket booth but none caught. Too windy for fly casting. Nothing on spinner.