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Another good day on this excellent beat. Had the place to ourselves so tried half a dozen pegs between us. Very good day again but strange pattern to the catches. At every peg landed a barbel with the first two casts then went quiet until I changed bait - size of pellet, meat, type of pellet all worked. Good number of barbel up to 10.5lb and about the same number of chub, nothing large but all in the 3-3.5lb range. Caught on elipse pellets (8 & 12ml), meat and even a couple on sweetcorn. First cast on the beach was smashed up by something - despite 15lb mainline and 12lb hooklink! And one not so pleasant experience - saw my first (very large) otter on the Wye but all in all another great day on this excellent Wye & Usk beat.

2 Brown Trout, both less than 1lb. Both returned.

What a lovely stretch of water. Only had 5 hours unfortunatley but would like to have explored more. 3 fish, biggest a shade under 10lbs.

Despite a terrible forecast, the weather was relatively kind apart from some strong squalls from time to time.
The river was at 1'2"on the gauge. We caught 9 WBT in total including 3 in the 1.5-2lbs mark - all returned. All were caught on weighted nymphs from the pools rather than the faster water. There was a small hatch of olives after lunch but the fish were not interested. As we left the river the heavens opened! We look forward to returning next year.

River was high and coloured, fished pellet and meat, only managed 2 barbel and 1 chub between us, best barbel 10lbs 3oz. Nice beat, thanks WUF yet again.

nil catch

4 trout to 14" and 1 grayling of 10" caught on grey wulff. Nice afternoon on this accessible and pretty stretch of water. Will go back.

1 x 8oz brown on dry fly, Dark Olive. Beat was being fished by angler worming who in conversation revealed this was a regular occurrence, also that he was not using the voucher scheme.

2 x WBT (12") caught on grey size 16 Klinkhammer. Stretch is very overgrown - access is difficult to some of the better pools. A local was "worming" on the stretch - pointed out this was not permitted, but he stayed just the same.

Tough days fishing, no fish caught. Fished a few different swims but no joy. Lovely surroundings, will be back.