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Did not fish due to leaves on water

River was ideal, had good flow and some colour. Started with Elips pellets with feeder in the morning but no success. At about midday, switched to 1" meat cubes using inline ledger and fished further out in main flow, bites started immediately. Lost a couple of Barbel in weed and landed two fish 7.8lb & 5.5lb. After lunch there was a lot of freshly cut branches and debris coming down river, I presume from bank maintenance work further upstream, it became difficult to fish so I went to watch the rugby final. Spoke to the other ticket holder further downstream who had at least a dozen barbel on pellets & feeder - so don't rule out pellets based on my report.

2 Barbel

Lovely bit of river, with good access, we used groundbait feeders with pellet/maggot with groundbait pluged ends, we caught 5 barbel & 2 chub during the main part of the day, using pellet on the hook, 5 more barbel caught early evening as it started to get dark, testing conditions due to weed drifting downstream causing frequent recasting.
All fish were mint condition and went back well/strongly.
We look forward to revisiting the venue.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

What an amazing days fishing on the Dolgau beat on the Wye, me and my friend Shaun fished as guests of the owner who kindly let us on this beautiful part of the Wye, as we were fishing we were lucky enough to see 8 salmon jumping throughout the day and truly spectacular thing when they leap out just a few yards away. This is an amazing river to fish with really good fish stocks and amazing scenery. I had a grayling knocking on 2lbs, a lovely fish caught on a CDC red tag variant fished under a klinkhammer with about 1 1/2 meters between them. I can truly recommend this location if you want to catch nice grayling. I believe the owner rents out accommodation if you fancied making a few days of it.

8 Trout, 26 Grayling

Chose the wrong day....water the colour of milk chocolate and rising.....saw no fish nor could tempt them subsurface.
Drew a blank.

In promising conditions (overcast) we caught from top field, woods and bottom fields all on meat. Chub were caught in the woods, best action was when it was getting dark, good day.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Lots of floating weed and leaves,but really nice beat. Easy to find and great access. No bites until evening. Biggest barbel was 9lb 4. Will visit again.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Hard fishing, river high and coloured. New owner has done a lovely job on the stiles and seats.

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

Arrived at Abbey Dore to weak sunshine with the river surprisingly clear despite overnight rain. Starting at the bottom of the beat I was encouraged to see a couple of rises and hooked a reasonable one to a dry Grayling Fiddler, only to lose it. The river was starting to cloud with field wash and I saw no more rises. There were no takers to a goldhead nymph or the dry, and I was rained off after an hour and a quarter, by which time the river was quite coloured. Not an easy beat to fish, with care needed in wading, and a rod over 7 ft. would be a nuisance, but a nice little bit of water that merits a second visit.

Another new beat for me today. Parked by the foot bridge and started walked up on that side of the river. I just couldn't find anywhere to access the water though. Tried on the other side of the bridge and eventually found some limited access but it was very difficult. This compounded with wind and lots leaves in the water made fishing quite challenging. No sign of Grayling and only a few Salmon Parr to show for my strenuous efforts. I think a more detailed map might have been useful and a few signs dotted around to give some confidence to someone new to the beat.

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