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A beautiful river, full of fishy haunts and eye catching glides. However, no fish seen or caught. Not so much as a tug on the line. The river was perhaps a little fast, plenty of small fry to be seen but no evidence of fish rising. I'll go back but in more suitable conditions.

One small grilse briefly hooked on a fly just below the fishing lodge in the rapids. It shook itself free after a few jumps and shot off downstream. No other salmon showing.

The river was dropping and the sun was shining. Fantastic beat. River still at about 3ft above summer level. My 11 year old son lost one barbel and caught one late on during the day of 8lbs 2oz. Once the sun was shining the river went dead, and the only thing I caught was the sun. Will be back as I am sure with a little cloud cover I can at least get one!

Not pleasant fishing conditions due to blistering heat, no cloud and little shade. Shared the lake with a bull and herd of cows but they seemed friendly enough. Several carp seeing cruising on arrival but most had disappeared by mid-late morning. Plenty of roach and rudd caught on the float. In the early afternoon I managed to hook a decent carp on floated bread and promptly lost it. Packed up early due to heat.

First time on Wye and Usk Foundation water and will be returning again! Fished the meadow below the orchid, angler 1 unfortunatly didnt catch, angler 2 had 5 barbel up to 7 1/2lbs and 2 chub on halibut pellets, and angler 3 being myself had 7 barbel biggest weighing 9lbs, 2 at 8lbs 1 of 7lbs and also 6 chub ranging from 3lbs to 5lbs. All fish were caught on boilies.

Beautiful venue this - I think it's worth pointing out that there is rather large but Docile Bull in the field that contains the lake. I was a little wary about going in but the farmer turned up and assured me it was ok.
As for the fishing - loads of big carp cruising about on the surface. Had a nice common on floating crust at 9 pounds and hooked into a bigger fish that snapped my line. Couldn't get a bite on the float or the ledger on sweet corn, bread or luncheon meat.

Would be interested to know what the gentleman who caught the wide variety of fish was using bait and method wise. Will definitely return after I've reassessed my tactics!

Would be interested to correspond with others who have fished here - I can be contacted on andrewsharp31@googlemail.com

River dropping throughout day, several small barbel and chub from swims at lower end of beat during the morning. Lost a couple of hours over lunch as I had to ferry a neighbouring angler to Ross A and E to remove a hook from his hand.
During afternoon I moved further upstream and landed a further three barbel from 7-8lbs to 9-10lbs.
Another great days sport!

21 barbel caught 8lb 8oz, chub 4lb.
We found the map of the beat was very misleading, the walk to the beat was at least 1 mile from the carpark. There should be more work done between the farmer and the Trust so that it would be possible to park at the bottom of his track. This would only make the walk to the river one field. We found the farmer very helpful on which field to walk to to make it easier for us as we are both 68yrs old. We will fish this again when the problems are sorted. we stayed at Mr and Mrs Anscombe Cider Barn at the top the track near to the Trusts carpark.

WUF note - Following a meeting with the landowner and tenant farmer yesterday, July 25th 2012, we can report that the access issues will be resolved in the next few weeks. In the meantime, there is a ½ mile walk from the car park down the track to the river’s edge (measured on Google Earth and GIS). Anyone concerned about this is asked to refrain from booking Lower Canon Bridge for now. We will announce when the improvements have been made on beat’s webpage.

A guided day with the thoroughly recommended Oliver Burch. Half a dozen small WBT came to spiders mainly the Hare's Lug and Plover on point in the quicker water during the heat of the day. At dusk we landed a 15" trout which rose to an Elk Hair Caddis. This beat has a great variety of water but you can expect to share it with other anglers, which to be fair is reflected in the competitive price. What I hadn't anticipated was the number of bathers but on a hot day in the school holidays you could hardly blame the local youths for enjoying their river too.

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