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Difficult northwest wind. Water clear but levels still well up and flowing strongly. Tough wading in places made for a good work-out! Six brown trout to 13", mostly on nymph. All returned.

6 Trout

5 Trout

First time on this lovely, lovely stretch. Easy to miss turnoff into Ashford House but otherwise good parking and access. Spectacular backdrop of hills. Good variety of water with riffles and pools, easy wading. Lot of water to explore. Sparse fly hatch mainly large olives. Only one fish rising, covered him and he took- beautiful 2 pounder- kept him and stomach wash chock full of snails and small stones- well over a dozen. Couldnt find any other fish with nymphs or emergers. Would love to return

1 Trout

Sun and northerly wind but a few good fish started to show during 90 minutes of March Brown flurries.

11 Trout

First time out this season, and we were met with ideal conditions on this very attractive beat. Sadly, the fish eluded us, and after a long day - trying every method we know - only 1 trout came to the net. Be back in a couple of weeks !

1 Trout

Early Spring river up, but kindly gave up 3 trout to olive nymph, including one 14in golden brown Usk beauty. A number of other heart warming contacts/misses. Good start to season.

3 Trout

A lovely end of season day on this great stretch of water. Shirt sleeve fishing to rising fish. 3 wbt best 1.5 lbs.
Thanks to all at WUF.

3 Trout

Second time on this beat, the first time was back in the spring when I had a fantastic day's fishing. This time things were much more difficult with 30mph winds, thankfully the river here is quite sheltered by the high banks but even so at times there where waves going upstream! Luckily, apart from the wind, the weather was dry and fairly warm and the river looked spot on.
The first field has no access to the river, or none that I could find, the second field is better but does involve climbing down steep banks, however once in the river the wading is very easy, the only difficulty being when the water becomes too deep. From here on access improves but there are still sections of water which seem to be inaccessible.
This is a gorgeous bit of river with some great fish holding areas, the best of which seems to be the faster water with decent depth right at the top of the beat downstream of the bridge, it was here I took two very large trout on my first visit. Today though there was very little fly life, none of the 200 billion promised crane flies made an appearance, just a few very small flies which were bringing the odd trout up, one 10' in front of me which I tempted with a small dry tied by myself on the third attempt, an average fish of around 11" but very welcome on a difficult day.
Thank you WUF for another lovely day on this beat.

1 Trout

Nothing caught unfortunately, despite taking local advice. Very attractive river, but very difficult to fish. A lot of vegetation along the bank meant you couldn't get to most of the possible swims, even more tricky if you are fly casting. Banks so steep in the main, consequently impossible to wade in safely for most instances. A great shame. Wont be returning.

The water was extremely low, and coupled with a brisk wind and bright sunlight, made for a tough day. Only a few rising fish seen throughout the day, and these could not be tempted with dries. Late in the afternoon, around 18:00, I managed to bring 2 small trout to the net; both in fine condition and both released safely. Both were caught in faster (and very shallow) water toward the top of the beat, and both took a sz16 weighted PTN.

2 Trout