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A lovely autumnal day on the upper Wye. A very well looked after beat, in fact the best cared for beat I have fished in Wales, with excellent access and variety of water available to fish. Flurries of sedge and BWOs all day, but the main hatch was a prodigious spinner fall of "autumn leaves", including Oak, Beech and Ash in vast quantities, making fly fishing incredibly difficult and nigh on pointless for the majority of the day. Eventually I found a run with an eddy on the far bank which was keeping the flow clear, and managed to lever out a couple of Grayling of 1.5lb on heavy, but subtly coloured nymphs. Several salmon seen showing and two brownies lost early on in the fight.

2 Grayling

Very poor beat. Access is poor and not worth £30

2 Chub

Barbel feeding well on pellets although the wind made presentation difficult.

12 Barbel, 5 Chub, 2 Other

1 Chub

Fished in the field below the wood. No bites until 4.15 when fish began to feed. 1 chub 3lbs about 5.30. After sunset had a barbel run but lost it. 2 anglers at the bottom end of the field caught barbel from 3pm into dark.

1 Chub

River still falling slowly with some colour. Very mild and breezy. Started at midday, with barbel coming at intervals until about 17.00. All the fish on meat and, remarkably, all about the same size, around 6lbs (estimated). Swim died in the evening with only a couple of smallish chub and with rain setting in I decided to call time on a good day.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Great day's fishing including a double figure barbel of 10lb 9oz, and a chub just under 5lb. River conditions were just about perfect. 4-5 Oz weights needed to hold in the flow off the pumphouse pegs though. Especially impressive given another angler fishing the beat also managed 10 barbel.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

Very quiet on this lovely fishery despite perfect weather conditions. Just the one barbel and lost one and one chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Tough but enjoyable day. Nice chub of about 5lb to it off.

1 Chub

3 Trout