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First time on this beat which is both picturesque and interesting fishing. However, the water was falling and with no fish showing except for a few small spashy rises in the shallows the end result was a blank.

Only two rods fished on the day. Fish caught and successfully returned were - 1 grayling (2lb) on small copperhead nymph, 2 wild brown trout (approx half pound each) on same nymph and 2 small salmon approx 4 inches in length. It was a fabulous day on one of the most beautiful rivers I have fished. I will definitely be back. Thank you for your help. Kind regards.

6lb and 4lb Barbel and a 3lb Chub, all caught on Richworth Xtracta boilies and pellets.

The last day of our 5 day trip was spent in familiar territory with very blustery weather. During the day, we tried swims up river and had a few barbel to 6lbs 10oz and a half dozen chub to 4lbs 8oz, all on pellet. For the evening we set up in the pylon swim hoping for a final rush of barbel but they decided to be very cagey and we had to be content with three to 6lbs 2oz between us. By 7pm it died completely so we packed up for the trip home. Thanks to WUF and staff for a very enjoyable week.

1 Chub all day. Water a bit clear but very poor day. Also noticed not many swims from bridge up-stream. Just one of them days!!

Unfortunately the last day of a great trip weather today was a bit cooler with quite a strong wind. We tried to fish the more sheltered areas by the bend and ended up with 17 barbel of which R H caught 16 and 17 chub all caught on pellets and boillies. That ends five great days fishing on WUF waters and we can't thank the Foundation enough. Also a very special mention for Colin the keeper as nice and knowledgeable a man as you will ever meet. For anyone that's interested we stayed in Charades guest house in Hereford a really good B&B and Helen can tell you all about the best pubs in town.

Lovely Autumn day, blue skies and warm but quite windy. Fishing slow during the morning and early afternoon with just a couple of barbel landed to one rod at the top of the wier field. Fishing did improve later in the day with more fish landed at the top of the wier field and fish landed at the tail of the wier field near the boat house. Total for 4 rods 15 barbel and a few chub, best barbel 8lbs 14oz.
I have to comment on the walk to the venue (I appreciate the reasons behind the route change) - but it is the longest possible route to get to the river even being made to walk down the right hand side of a field as opposed to the left hand side !

Marvellous stretch, very accessible. Some cracking pools very grayling looking water. Not much fly life very few rises. 2 small grayling. Lost fly in a heavy fish in 1 of the Craig Llyn pools, a Hairy Red Tag if anyone catches it!

All 4 of us decided to fish the top end of the fishery near to the Waterworks for 3 reasons:
1. We were carrying quite a lot of equipment( Big mistake)!! The problems of transporting it through quite wild overgrown tracks and over a fence with a style into the wood was simply not an option on a very warm day.
2. One of our party had recently had knee replacements.
3. The second parking option at the big tree midway along the main road verge is simply that, a verge "very tight for our transit van" and extremely exposed to passing traffic we didn't feel comfortable leaving our vehicle there all day (Security concern).
Don the owner was very helpful and full of information spending a lot of time explaining the swims to each of us individually and a wealth of knowledge he has too, so a Big Thank you to Don. Unfortunately the fish weren't interested and the fishing didn't live up to expectation. Bright sun and no colour in the river didn't help.
I fished the bay swim and it looked great. Started off targeting the far bank and mid river feeding 4mm halibut pellets through an open ended feeder and 8mm pellet on a hair in various combinations of short and long hairs, tails, hooks and size of pellet. I only had 2 bites all day, both were savage takes and almost certainly Barbel. They both took me into abrasive rocks on the bottom which instantly broke my 15lb braided hook lengths.
I then went on to lose 4 more feeders in a snag about 30 yards down stream 1/3 of the way across. I had no more bites and ended up with a blank. My mate A fished the new swim next to me upstream. He managed to catch 2 Barbel around 8lb and 3 Chub about 4lb. D fished the first swim and didn't get a bite all day.
T I believe fished the Single Alder swim and managed a Barbel in excess of 8lb and 3 Chub. All four of us were very disappointed in the lack of bites but did enjoy the location and scenery. On a different day things may have been completely different. I personally would not fish the Bay peg again, (I couldn't afford to)! We all feel we should have travelled light and fished the wood beat pegs. We shall put this trip down to experience and learn from it.

Started well by leaving my selection of wets & bugs on the kitchen table, so my dries with 4 or 5 GH nymphs would just have to manage in the wind. 3wbt to 16ins, 8 grayling to 19ins. The GHHE salvaged the day.