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Another excellent day despite the tricky conditions.

The river was still well up and coloured, and there were very few areas of slack water - which made bite detection quite difficult and meant I pulled through a number of fish.

Pouring with rain when I got there and very windy.

Learnt my lesson from my first time here, and managed to get the other side of the big mid-river snag.

I clearly found a shoal of barbel, and was in to fish immediately - all in the 6-7lb range.

The swim went quiet for a couple of hours, but then switched on again - I finished at 9pm and ended the day with 32 barbel (up to 8.5lb) and 5 big chub (up to 6lb).

I also picked up a load of nice dace and small chub.

All the big fish were caught on 8ml and 12ml elipse pellets
I will be back again very soon.

Weather changable, river level up but falling. 2/3rds of the riverbank was inaccessible. Having not fished this stretch before, I assume that under normal river level conditions, the inaccessible areas are reachable by wading. This said, 2 rods caught 5 barbel up to around 6lb and several chub.

Early morning start. Due to the terrain and distance to walk I carried minimum of tackle to mid beat. Water level up approx 2ft and chocolate coloured, so decided to fish top end of beat in deeper slack water. Wading not possible. Rewarded with 3 chub to 4 lb and 3 barbel to 9 lb.
The downside to this good beat are the very steep tracks leading to the waters edge unless you have a 4x4 vehicle.
Choice of swims limited, banks could benefit from work to improve this situation.

Thank you WUF - most enjoyable day.

Arrived to find river up but starting to drop off. Caught 35 barbel to 8lb, 12 chub to 5lb plus 1 eel over 4 days.Bad thunderstorm and heavy rain thursday morning put paid to fishing Friday. All fish caught on pellet, lovely settings, swims, comfortable access and directions perfect. All fish caught top end of fishery. Thanks Wye and Usk, we will be back, bring on Aramstone in September!

2 today 9 and 6 lbs on FC with 1 hook!

Stream clearing after spate. Few fish rising. 6 BT on Adams & Mayfly.

1 fish caught between 2 rods (12 inches), returned, and 3 missed. Klinkhammer, emergers and goldhead damsel nymph best. Water level was high and falling all day and colour improved following flood previous day.
Tricky wading - wading staff essential.

Water looked good and cleared markedly mid afternoon early evening. Of salmon, none seen, heard or connected.

This was satisfying as this was a free day having been washed off earlier in the season - made more satisfying by catching a 10.5lb Salmon. A bronzey colour appearing suggesting it was one of the 2SW from early May?

Well had one of the "those days" on this beat. I arrived to find the river about 5ft above normal. It had peaked on the Saturday about 10 ft above normal. I soon found a swim in the meadow with a good walking pace flow. During the morning caught 13 barbel to 8lbs 11oz plus 3 chub.
Moved swims after getting to this uncomfortable number. Second cast in the new swim produced a barbel. This was followed by 5 more to 9lbs 2oz. The fish certainly fought well in the extra flow. All the fish were caught on pellet. So 19 barbel and 3 chub was indeed a "red letter day". Looking forward to my other sessions I've got booked. Thanks as ever to Don for a beautiful fishery.