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Had 3 days at Barnard Castle, fish rising at end of caravan park and opposite Egglestone Abbey, a lot of fish rising, but at my last vist finding what they were taking was difficult, tried everything in the box. one on a palmered Whickham, 3 on a Griffiths and the last on a Shipmans Buzzer. Beautiful scenery, slippery rocks, but had a lovely time.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Hard work in strong wind.

1 Trout

Another funny start to the day .... big ohhhhhhs and ahhhhhhhhs on the super hot weather we're getting on the radio on the short trip to Clywedog Brook.... Overcast and muggy in mid Wales, looked like rain too .....
Never mind, fished an d local favourite .... seeing the gent yesterday had a pretty good bit of sport here .... I fished my usual tiny dries .... plenty of insect life on the go, although early on they we're hammering the smaller stuff tight up in the faster water ....Those small almost gnat like flies.... I should study them more ... A size twenty black f fly did the biz initially..... good sport to be fair ..When the sun did pone its head through, olives starting showing and some sedge......Heating up pretty quickly, must be 23 or 24 by two ish ... I fished from eleven till bang on three,got out at the weir, plenty of sport has for this callsign, with nine crackers to the net, three of which were a good stamp for here, maybe eleven Inches of more ......
Tis nice to see the trout in fat lovely condition here. The water does stay well shaded in this secretive brook. She's low and most of my cast were mega tight in the pool heads, the alder root side of the pool too !!!Great savage hits to my dries, as always with these feisty stream brownies.....! I did do a bit more trimming of annoying bits ....Plenty of grey squirrels seen , now active on the hazelnuts , and actually with the breeze, lots of leaves coming down now too !!! Tis getting that time folks .... Enjoy it while you can !! I'll give this a dam good haircut after the season has finished !!! Onwards and possibly another wild stream beat tommorrow !!! Time for a pint of orange juice and plenty of ice !!!! Lol ......

9 Trout

5 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

A hard day, a few tentative bites, but it was really too hot for them

River low and tea coloured. Temp hovering around 19C so only fished the faster, better oxygenated water with a trout Spey rod and de-barbed hooks. A couple of grayling to 14” and trout to 11”, otherwise small. Taken on a wide variety of flies but, only seeing one decent rising fish, I didn’t fish any dries. Six of the trout came from double takes to point and mid dropper.
All fish quickly to hand, nothing netted, and quickly released but a good number of others wriggled off.

14 Trout, 11 Grayling

Low water level. Water temp. measured as 21 degrees. Barbel caught while legering, allowed to recover more than usual as a precaution.

1 Barbel

Another scorcher today ! Tricky fishing , was hoping to bag up but very slow , a few chub and a barbel to keep me on the edge ,
Evening produced the best sport as you’d expect , famous for its smaller barbel I did manage to whip out a few over 3lb so happy with that . Always a pleasure to be here another great day !

6 Barbel, 3 Chub

Arrived on the beat at 14:00. Hot, with clear blue skies but a stiffish wind. A little rain over the weekend freshened up the river - but not enough to shift the gauge at Brecon. No fly activity so fished a lightly beaded olive nymph at the top of the beat. Missed a couple of takes but had one beautifully marked WBT of around 1lb.

Caught a fleeting glimpse of a black stoat-like creature on the opposite bank. I am almost certain it was a mink. Are they found on the Usk??

1 Trout