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Water starting to look low.

This lovely beat has been spoiled by the recent addition of barbed wire and locks on the 3 access gates and styles by the farmer, which has completely blocked off the top 30% of the beat. It seems this is a deliberate measure, an attempt to stop people fishing here.

The only access is to wade into this section, which is not ideal as it is slippery bedrock, so if you are with somebody with mobility issues or for an evening as it gets dark it will be impassable.

Can WUF raise this issue with the landowner? Access should be much better here, given the ticket cost. Effectively the top half of the beat will be out of bounds for most.

7 trout landed to 14 inches, most on dry fly in the Quarry pool.

7 Trout

A truly beautiful beat, which I was trying for the first time. Similar in some ways to Fenni Fach. The waterfall at the top of the beat is worth the trip. Got there at about 2.30 and stayed til 7.30. Good conditions, warm and cloudy with an only occasional upstream breeze. Tried a little pocket water fishing up from the bottom of the beat using a PTN but no luck. Spent some time at the junction pool casting to rising fish. I could spy some much bigger fish nosing around the shallows, but no matter how stealthily I repositioned myself, they had always ghosted away by the time I was able to cast to them. I moved up to the top of the beat to explore and eventually caught a couple of small trout in the pool running after the waterfall at the top of the beat. Parachute Adams. A great day, despite the lack of fish caught.

2 Trout

No fish caught or seen despite the hatches throughout the day.
Very low water!

Lovely beat, warm sunny day, only one fish

1 Trout

Weather as before: blazing sunshine for most of the day. Also as before had to leave before the evening rise. Still managed one trout, not huge, on an emerger in a slow pool. Did not make it to the top of the beat because disinclined to wade round too many field gates fortified with barbed wire.

1 Trout

A really lovely stretch; tricky wading, as advised. The river was low, and few trout were rising. A few mayfly, and one cloud of spinners I could not identify; large, but smaller than mayfly in any event. Lost one fish on a humpy fished blind. Nothing otherwise. Access to the river at either end of the meadow opposite the parking place is fine; subsequent gates have to be waded round, which is tricky without felt and studs and would be no fun at all in higher water.

Can highly recommend for fishermen the airbnb we stayed in in Crickhowell; Alistair, who runs a paragliding tuition business in the town as well as the airbnb, is a knowledgeable and helpful fly fisherman as well.

Lovely day fishing although difficult with only one trout caught

1 Trout

3 Trout

Fished 8am-3pm and spotted several along the beat but nothing caught. Wading can be very slippy in the middle and top pools.