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Zero catch. However there were plenty of rising fish, especially about 75m to the right of the parking area. We just couldn't entice them.

Nevertheless we had a great day out on a lovely stretch of water surprisingly undisturbed by the nearby A40 (except of course near the bridge).

Having passed through Llangurig more times I can remember on the way to fishing the Rheidol in Aberystwyth I thought now was the time to give the upper Wye a try. We decided to fish the upper lower beat! first which was challenging to say the least especially with a hell of an upstream/cross stream/down stream breeze! It was so strong at times you could dap your fly.

Even so I managed a good grayling of about 16ins on a bh ptn and lost another approx the same size. The wife managed to get one fish to rise 3 times to her Adams and managed to miss it every time! (Been there....) She managed to move a few more later but blanked for the day. I managed to hook and loose another 4 fish, all taken on an Adams. The Adams seemed to be the fly today had at least 8-10 offers without hooking any.(I'm blaming the wind!!!) Some seemed like good fish too.

Very difficult day with the wind. Funny, its the first time I've had my fly drag upstream before..... I'll be back on a calmer day.

Grayling 2, trout 5. Wet flies.

2 hen fish 6lb & 8lb with sea lice both returned. Ally shrimp #12 on F/S1. Good number of running fish passing through beat.

A pretty average day all in all, with a good morning producing 4 chub between 2-3lb, followed by a very quiet afternoon. The bites returned at around 6-7pm, just before I had to leave! All the chub were caught on luncheon meat, but it's just a shame it didn't tempt the barbel. As a first time visitor to the Luggsbridge fishery, I can honestly say it's a gorgeous river, with plenty of well constructed swims, most of which have huge 'big fish' potential.

Many thanks to the WUF for providing and maintaining such a superb stretch of river.

Fished from 8 a.m. until 7.30 p.m. (no evening rise by then). Mainly overcast and windy. Some fish rising on and off all day but relatively few. Some fly, mainly small upwings. 24 grayling inc. many fish of 12 to 15"; 13 trout to 1.5lb and some chublets. Fish taken on hare's ear emerger and some on black F-Fly. Others on PTN fished Kiwi-style. Most fish taken fishing the water. A cracking day!

8 barbel to 7lb 4ozs, 3 chub to 2lb, all on halibut pellets.

2 brown trout apx 8 oz. Royal Wulff fly.

The surroundings and river quality were such that catching nothing would have been a total pleasure.

Had a lovely day on a super bit of water. Did not catch much, 3 chub best weight approx 3lb.

7 barbel (6 for me :-) ) and 3 chub. Water even lower than last report. Barbel still to be found tightly shoaled in about a 40 metre secton of the beat. They tended to shy away from the angler wearing the Chris Yates tweeds, though the ducks were fascinated by him for some reason.

Pre baiting the spot where we found the barbel had little effect as nearly all were caught in the pool upstream from where the bait was (only 30 yards or so). Big 22mm pellets and pellet feeder were by far the best tactic. Lost 3 Barbel, one when my despised Shimano baitrunner decided to not surrender any line due to S**t clutch system, and a big fish just clean snapped a newly tied 8lb hooklink, on a through action rod.

Biggest fish 7lb 4oz.

Biggest laugh, my fishing partner being loved by every duck in the whole stretch. He even moved from where he caught the 7+ barbel just to get away from them, but they love him long time and followed him to his new spot. :)

Lovely day again, will be interesting to see where the fish go when the levels rise.

Thanks WUF for keeping this stretch in top condition.