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Another superb days fishing on this great beat. The weather was warm and sunny, the river level low. Catch returns as follows:
I.M. 2 x Trout up to 15", 1 x Grayling 10".
T.H. 4 x Trout up to 18", 3 x Grayling up to 19".
All fish caught on dry fly, and returned in good condition.

We took 3 excellent trout, 2 on grhe & 1 on a pheasant tail (all gold heads), all fished upstream as a New Zeland team under small dries. The Glan Usk estate is the best trout river I have fished in my 28 years of fly fishing!

Great day for sunbathers, canoeists and druid sun-worshippers. Managed to winkle out a PB chub - (no idea what it weighed left scales at home - but is the biggest Ive ever caught (5-6 lbs?)) right at the death on legered luncheon meat - fought like crazy - thought it was a barbel until I saw it. Lovely stretch of water - very enjoyable as always. Also managed 2 minnows on float-fished maggot - both returned with care.

Blanked. Fly fishing for pike and also tossing a few smaller
streamers for whatever. One small jack tail nip. Much too warm, bright
and low.

My first visit, only fished for 2 hours to check the water out for future visits, but pleased to have caught one half pound brown trout on a dry fly, the fish was returned safely.

Beautiful stretch of water, and only takes an hour and twenty from Stratford, so I look forward to fishing it again when I have more time to explore it more.

Total catch for the day was 4 Grayling: 2 were approx 4inchs, 1 was about 7inches and the last was a stunning fish, my PB Grayling, 16 inches and the better part of 1.75 lb.

One trout, one grayling. Tough conditions, river low and clear, stunning setting though. Will be back.

Having booked two beats for 5 rods, due to there being only 3 of us selcted to fish Caradoc. Total fish caught - 24 Barbel to 8lb's 10oz, 2 Chub, one angler taking a total of 15 barbel, 11 of which came from a non-descript swim, having never been fished before by pure watercraft knowledge. After looking at all the regular croys and easy swims on the shallows, by re-walking the length the angler in question chose a totaly unfished spot by picking what he thought looked like a fishy glide in the water and, what a 'Result'.
All in all a splendid days fishing in great surroundings (despite the bull), made even more memorable by the fantastic autumn weather.

About 40 between the 5 of us but mainly very small trout. A couple of decent grayling and one decent trout (about 1lb or so). A hard day, river very low and a cool downstream wind most of the time. Wading very tricky with rocks covered in brown slime - 3 of us went in!

Fish came to a full range of approaches - dries, nymph, NZ style and downstream spiders.

6 x grayling to 16 inches. A hard, cold day, east wind, with nothing much rising till late afternoon, when there was a brief flurry of activity.