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Very cold start to the morning. Approximately 20-25 grayling taken from the lower weir where it enters into the large pool largest around a lb and half. Managed to pick a couple more out further up the beat but water was very low and slow. All fish were caught czech nymphing

1 Trout, 29 Grayling

A lovely day at Lyepole, sun came out and a bit chilly, fished for a couple of hours on wets, nothing happening, changed to dry as saw lots of rises as sun warmed up, 3 small grayling, and 2 small trout, all in beautiful condition, my first grayling too, will come again, water very clear, only downside, ripped knee of my waders on barbed wire, grrr

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished 3 swims in the first field. Nothing. Very disappointing days fishing in lovely surroundings.
Ran into 2 foreign speaking men spinning. I asked if they had a permit but apparently they didn't understand English.
They disappeared. Highlight of the day was watching an otter feeding in mid river in daylight. Last day of 5 days fishing. Stayed at the Falcon House B&B at How Caple. Ideal for all WUF waters between Ross and Hereford. Well recommended.

River quite low but not as low as it has been and there was a little bit of colour to it. Both anglers predominantly used feeder and pellet tactics. Angler 1 caught three barbel of 4lb 1oz, 8lb and 6lb 3oz all from about half way along the beat in the mid-afternoon. The other angler lost a good barbel and caught a 4lb chub from the top end of the beat and then had 6 small chub and 2 dace trotting maggots. Plenty of bird life including long-tailed tits and kingfishers and several salmon jumping. Not the fastest-paced fishing action but with three barbel that fought like the devil possessed I'm certainly not complaining. Lovely day, thank you.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub, 2 Other

All fish caught in the afternoon as the sun came out briefly! Cold day but plenty of fish seen cruising around.
Had 7lb,5lb and 12lb commons and a 5lb mirror, fish spooked easily so all fish caught from different swims on pellet.....Will be back.

4 Other

Only 1 Chub catch, river in good condition but a lot of debris. Really fast part of the river for feeder fishing.

1 Chub

River level 18" on the Llanstephan gauge. Most grayling about 10" but one at 14". The two trout were 10-12". My first visit to this beat and I agree with the WUF that there is lots of trout and grayling water to be fished with a nice variety of water. Fished a team of three flies with a weighted Red Tag on point and Hancock's Pet and Partridge & Orange as droppers. All caught fish as, after a change, did a Snipe & Purple. Managed to lose my landing net - should be floating down through Monmouth about now I reckon.

2 Trout, 9 Grayling, 9 Other

Beautiful part of the river, the fishing was slow as the river had fined down a lot during the previous day, the level was dropping steadily whilst we were there until it went clear. We started our session fishing with maggots for the chub and perch which proved to only catch a number of finger dace and chublets, nothing sizeable though. We switched to the ledger for the rest of the session and we managed to pull a couple of barbel on pellet and fish meal boilie near the end of the session. We stayed at the White Lion pub which was only a 10 to 15 minute drive away from the beat, very comfortable bed and breakfast, good ale and very nice food, they did us a packed lunch and filled the flasks up for us. We would highly recommend trying a stay here. Tight lines!!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished Czech nymph for most of the day and,despite a very cold early morning, fish were feeding.
Late afternoon I switched to float-fished maggots and took the best of the grayling, up to about 1lb.

4 Trout, 6 Grayling