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Fantastic clear water, running through very fast a lovely stretch of water both upper and lower beats. I had 1 brown on a nymph weighing about a 1lb. Had a further take on a Blue Dun but didn't connect and then spent the rest of the day roaming the river to no further action. But plenty of fish moving, fly life was good for this time of year butI couldn't match the hatch. I will be back thank you for a great day!!

Best fish was a wbt approx 12inches to a black Klink, a couple about 9 inches and quite a few small fish. The odd fly hatching and fish ready to come to the dry fly. A lovely bit of water. For prospective visitors I have uploaded a short video of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCcrTQrzRw&feature=g-upl

Water high & still very brown today but as there were wadable & open bank sections, we did fish it pretty thoroughly to no avail. Did find a sheltered bend with a shoal of grayling which were fun on dry flies-fish to 1 1/4 lbs.

Looked perfect but only 1 barbel and 1 chub at around 7pm. Both caught on Hallibuts, the barbel was 9lb 11oz good fish.

2 Barbel and 1 Roach on pellet.

Nothing landed, one fish showing.

River 0.8m steady perfect colour. Fished for 6 hrs in company of much more expert salmon anglers than myself. No sightings of Salmo Salar. Are they all at Brecon and Sennybridge? Olives hatching and a reasonable rise in afternoon. This was ignored because of my affliction [salmon madness].

RE’s quest for barbel continued……
A beautiful day dawned, blue cloudless sky, light breeze.
Arrived at 8.15am, walked the beat till 9.00am. Beautiful stretch of river but disappointed with the lack of access points along the bank, three in total. Decided to fish the Croy (CH) at the top of the beat and 200m downstream (RE).
Superb start to the day - CH – 3lb Chubb, RE – 4lb 8oz Barbel (Breaking his duck) followed closely by CH’s ‘Biggest Catch of the day’ – 5lb 12oz Barbel all caught on pellet within the first hour.
Disappointingly no further catches to report, but neither of us could complain, just felt privileged to be in this wonderful part of the country enjoying the sunshine and spectacular scenery and not forgetting the company of some magical wildlife, including swans, buzzards, Canada geese, cormorants, mallards, kingfishers, long tail tits and dragonflies to name but a few.
Leaving at 19.00 with a full moon lighting the way, a perfect ending to the day.
As Andy Williams concluded, ’Moon River and Me’.

Beautiful sunny day. Caught 2 barbel (biggest 7lb), 2 eels and a chub. Water was very coloured after a lot of rain.

We arrived at the beat to a very fast and flooded river (over 3' up according to Don). Struggled to find any fishable swims but after some sound advice from Don, we managed 3 chub to 4lb 8oz and 1 barbel to 4lb 8oz. A hard day but good sport and lovely surroundings yet again. All fish were taken on groundbait feeder and boilie. Looking forward to our next visit! Thanks again to Don and the WUF.