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Very hot day. Had a couple of Chub in the morning, then three Barbel in the evening, all on pellets from the croy. Nice quiet beat.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Hot sunny day - some sporadic surface feeding, both fish (small) on Para-Adams size 18.

2 Trout

My wife and I were on holiday in Cwm Irfon, so I booked the Upper Irfon beat for Tuesday and Wednesday.
I fished for 1.5 hours before breakfast and caught 5 small trout of 4oz or less. I saw several larger trout (1lb - 1.5lb), but couldn't tempt them.
I fished again for 1 hour at dusk, and caught 3 small trout.

8 Trout

No fish caught, the odd tiny one taking flies off the surface. Beautiful backdrop and superb weather, but of course the low flows are the negative and not a single hint of a fish of any size in what little water remained. I did catch a lovely wild brown trout here last year in much better water, so I'd recommend to anyone thinking of fishing here, wait for plenty of rain first!

River 0.4 and gin clear. Temp 30c at 7pm and still 24c at 10pm. John and I opted for trout fishing spider partridge and orange and small greenwells nymph subsurface in Woodstream and Top Run resulting in 11 for me and 5 for John from par to 12 oz. Good sport! All returned.
Switched to dry wulff size 14 at 9.30pm and had another 4 but some large trout showed in the streamy water below the rock but unable to tempt any of these. Suspect they had moved up from the pool late on. John had one more in tail of Chine pool.

21 Trout

Fished the top of the beat in the afternoon in the heat of a scorching day and received not a single bite for my efforts. Moved downstream and fished the beach in the evening with the desired effect. Lots of interest from the resident barbel and two 5 pounders landed plus an eel. The former on halibut pellets and the latter on a piece of luncheon meat. A wonderful beat, great vehicle access and a very friendly farmer. Banks are very steep at the top end but the lower end is pretty easy going, I even managed to get a chair out. Many thanks to WUF.

2 Barbel, 1 Other

Lovely evening again in such a beautiful valley at Titley , Another big fish @ 14ins on dusk on a deer hair sedge.

6 Trout

River low but coloured with algae.

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

Only one of us ended up fishing due to heat! Made the very long journey on foot from youth hostel car park - needs stressing that the track to carpark is extremely narrow, very steep - glad I had the truck! Disappointed by the lack of available swims. I don't mind a bit of wild stuff but in 30deg heat I'm not going to start wading through 6ft nettles in my shorts! Eventually found a spot and managed a couple of barbel once the heat had died down a bit - one just nudging 10lb which I was very pleased with and made the long hike back worth it. River low and warm and could do with a flush through in next couple of weeks.

2 Barbel

Great day's fishing on this lovely stretch even though it was getting on for 30c! All fish caught on pellets or corn on the float or feeder set up. Must have lost another 6 barbel throughout the day but still very happy to come away with 17! Really nice to meet Don too, lovely chap who is very helpful and knowledgeable!

17 Barbel, 6 Chub