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The river was about 4' up and rising, chocolatey and turbulent with a lot of debris tanking through when we arrived in the rain. Faced with these perfect conditions we went in search of some slacker water near the bank where we could use our expensive kit to haul out tons of leaves, twigs and weed and, in this, we were successful. The fish didn't respond to meat, maggots or pellets except for a 10 minute spell when we had two bites and two cracking green barbel of approx 4lb and 7lb.
We packed up at 5.00pm with our characters built and a sense of real achievement, squelched through the mud and laughed in the face of adversity.
Can't wait to go again. Thanks WUF.

12.30 to 16.30. mild 10degC with rain/drizzle. Island just showing but water clear. Banks not too slippery here. Trotting for Chub with self cocking chubber float with one shot at 18inches, C-pin and 12 hook with 3 maggots, same loose fed into swims. From Quay area 2 chub around one and half pound and 3rd weighed at 4lb 2oz caught trotting well downstream in rocky area. Lost what I suspect was a largish barbel that took off into the main flow. From bank immediatly below Wyebank entry 2 Chublets and 1 beautiful Dace weighed at 10/11oz. Then got a tangle as is only possible with a C-pin at dusk!

All fish in superb condition, nice to see smaller chub and dace which have not been so commonly caught this year are actually still there.

13 x grayling 10-12 inches, 2 x out of season trout 8-10 inches, short nymphing. The water was a bit high following rain 36 hours before but Lyepole was looking absolutely glorious in sunshine and a hard white frost. Be warned - the low Winter sun may illuminate the woods on the tops of the hills but the valley itself is a frost trap and the ice remains until mid afternoon. Cold it was and the bigger grayling stayed away but it was still a great day out. I caught a fox trying to stalk hen pheasants by the farm when driving down first thing in the morning, and there was a ghostly barn owl floating between the trees over the bridge when I left.

Conditions couldn't have been more against us. Hard frost, clear sky and rising river. Between us we fished every swim on the beat for a hard earned 4 Chub. Bait's included cheese paste, bread and pellet.

Most enjoyable days fishing in bright, sunny conditions on this pretty stretch of river. Six grayling up to just under 2lb as well as numerous out of season brown trout to trotted maggots from a variety of different swims. Easy wading and access, especially to downstream beat. Access more tricky upstream but still plenty of swims.
Thank you Wye and Usk for making this beautiful stretch available to the bait fishermen among us.

Very cold day indeed, but the river was in fantastic shape. Clear and at good height. Fishing was difficult with nothing to show for the first couple of hours at our usual go to runs. After spotting a very large spawning salmon thrash around in the shallows at the head of one of the pools, (20lb+), we managed 3 good sized out of season WBT and a couple of small grayling. One of the browns was approx 18". After a move PJ took a few grayling prospecting with a tan klink and I fished a heavy bug under indicator in shallower water that produced 4 or 5 Grayling and the one that got away which i classed as a monster ;-). Good day all round on my favourite fishery of the Foundation. Thank you.

6 plus my self gathered at Ty Newedd on a glorious autumn day. the river was a little high and fast but perfectly clear.
During the morning session we looked at fishing the slower shallower sections with the duo and a few fish where caught.
Then after an early lunch we got back to the river in time to catch a hatch of LDO that brought about a spell of activity. We spent the afternoon fishing nymphs on a French leader every one was successful in catching a few fish both grayling and the odd OS brownie. It was good to see so many salmon splashing around too, including a couple of very big fish.

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Beautiful location and good access, river looked in great condtion, level and colour...however, we couldn't buy a bite! Tried everything, didn't even see any fish, just one of those days...never mind, that's fishing! The pheasant shoot near us faired better....we'll be back though!

We were very lucky. Heavy overnight rain raised the Irfon, Ithon and Wye at Builth by over 1ft but the Upper Wye only rose 3” to a height of 0.62 on the EA gauge at Ddol Farm. The river was clear and very fishable. The weather was mild, which resulted in good hatches of olives in mid-morning and again in the afternoon. Two of us managed about 30 grayling to about 17” and 6 out of season brown trout to 15”. Most of these were caught on small olive dry flies, casting to rising fish. Fishing slowed about 3pm when the sun fell behind the hills. Nice long beat. Great day.

River low and clear. Roved along the whole stretch catching a few smaller pike on moving baits.