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Had a great day roving. 12 barbel to 9lbs caught on halibut pellet back next year for sure.

7 barbel, best 8.5lbs

13 x grayling 8-15 inches, 9 x trout 6-9 inches, on dries and spiders.
Rather a strange day. A cold wind all the time, with bright sun giving way to cloud and a few showers. The morning was really difficult with absolutely no fish coming to the surface and large amounts of weed floating down. In fact the river was rising, as I realised when I stuck a stick in the margin. This freshet was due to heavy rain in central Wales the night before - but the water was not colouring at all. Checking the webcam trace when I got home, I found it rose 6 inches during the morning and then dropped around 3 inches during the afternoon. As the river began to fall, the grayling woke up to some extent and I had some sport. However they were really picky about fly patterns and there was much boiling under the fly or otherwise coming short. There were a few dark olives...and willow fly...about, everything grey, and the patterns which worked to some extent were Grayling Steel Blue, Grey Duster and Waterhen Bloa

1 brown trout returned. A lovely days fishing. Thanks.

Just two small Brownies between us (9" apiece). Water very clear (I think they could see us coming!). A few fish rising but nothing consistent so hard to get them to the dry fly. A couple of missed takes as well. Pale Yellow Parachute and Light Olive the taking flies.
Sporadic hatches throughout the day. Weather was mild with a bit of light rain. A downstream breeze made presentation difficult but that's the price you pay for being a diehard dry fly addict.
Both fish returned.

Arrived about 10 ish, one salmon fisherman in action, at lunchtime he left and two more salmon anglers arrived, later in the afternoon another course angler arrived and then two men collected their pedalo (Yes I really mean in Pedalo!) from the bank and pedalled up stream. Quite a busy day. On the fishing side of things I caught 4 Chub, all good fish but not a sight or smell of the Barbel.
Thanks to WUF however for the beats that we can all choose.

Nil return. Water fairly low although a few salmon moved in Lady Alexander's Catch. Pal contented himself with chasing the grayling and trout and had amazing sport with lots of fish up to 1 1/2lb of both species.

One brown trout caught (approx 3/4lbs) and a couple missed an a very windy afternoon. Not easy fishing but a great setting.

1 small WBT caught on nymph dropper.

A frustrating start to the days fishing with anglers fishing from the opposite bank wading out and casting up close to pegs on the How Caple Court stretch, who then insisted that 1 of the rods in our party could not fish his selected peg as the fisherman/"poacher" from the other bank was fishing it for the following reasons 1. it was to shallow on his side 2. he claims to pay £500 a year to fish his stretch!!! Attempted to contact Wye & Usk on the 01982 560 788 number but was unable to get an answer !!!!
A few Barbel & Chub did eventual show later in the day.
WUF could really do with providing a number that can be answered over the weekend so these sorts of incidents can be reported ASAP and assistance sought from the baliff of the stretch.