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Foggy when I arrived and chilly, another angler already fishing, think I would have chosen his swim (first spot over bridge) as it was the only area that looked to have a nice bit of flow against a steady piece of water where you would think fish would be? Not the case today however he told me he had one decent bite and this resulted in a hook pull.
After a natter I moved down to the 2 large trees on the same side. Although the river looked fine it was in fact tearing through. Mashed some bread and started with flake on the straight lead but the flow was to strong and with no slack water flake was gone in 40seconds. Set up float rod, sure enough it was ripping through, flake again was my choice on a size 4 with the 6no BB baulked 10" from the hook, float buried 3rd trot down, resulting in a 1lbs 8oz chub. 3hrs with not another touch packed in and left due to it turning very cold. Did not really expect much but must say was surprised how poor it was today, last nights frost gets the blame, will try again before season ends.

Not one bite. With relative low water this beat proved difficult on the day as the river appeared relatively lifeless.

Hard, hard day. River up again over night and powering through. Managed a 3lb chub late in the afternoon on crust. Highlight of day was as I crossed the bridge a stoat was crossing towards me, he lept on to the stone pillar and then lept into the river 18ft below and swam across the powerfull flow and climbed up the steep bank and was gone. Loads of game birds about, the area is a big sporting estate. Will be back in a few weeks time.
Well done The Wye and Usk Foundation.

Four chub on Cheese paste. Following on from TS who fished Sugwas, I too have taken home other people's line nearly every week this year. It's not hard to put it in your bag.
Note to WUF, forgot to say last week that someone has broken the barbed wire in the middle field at Perryhill. The beat really does need a few stiles put in place before the land owner gets upset.

Not a productive day 0 fish landed.

Hard Hard Hard - water well up and as such left hand bank pretty much unfishable and river roaring through. Fished other side 50 yards from bridge for 4 hours, not even a knock. Bet a good stretch with reasonable levels though.

Water low and cold. A few chub - no barbel.

Booked over my mobile £15+£3?? Anyway got to the river 12-45pm, slightly above Summer levels. Chose last swim on the LH bank, not a good move! Evil snag just in front of the over hanging willow at the tail of the eddy. Lost 4 complete rigs and 3 fish (this really needs sorting please W.U.F). 15LBS braid coming back looking like it had been cut with a knife! Hopefully fish will ditch barblees hooks and swivel, my in line feeder rig means the feeder detaches as soon as main line breaks? Keep this in mind if you fish this swim please. Time to move, well I still had a few rigs left. Crossed bridge and fished in front of trees 80m from bridge down stream. 2 x 10mm elips hair riged on in-line feeder saw me take 4 Barbel to 6 lbs in first 1 1/2 hours. Bite's dried up from 4-30pm would be very easy to associate with 3 cormorants turning up and very clear water conditions? Left at 6-30pm. did notice a MINK on the far bank around 6pm!

With the river at only .67m at Ross, the Barbel were going to be hard to find. The water was low and clear. Had to wait 3hrs for first Chub on the feeder. Moved slightly further down the L/H bank and fished the creases between the rapids. Bagged another 4 Chub, the best being about 5lbs. Returned to my 'dead' peg, trotted maggot and landed several Dace and Chublets with another 2 bonus 4-5lb Chub late in the day. Lovely place, good access but too shallow for Barbel when river is low. Canoeists were abundant but considerate.

Fished all day saturday, river low and clear, first time on this beat, the owners have made access very easy, probably the best I have seen on the Wye. Very quiet area, only a few canoes so location and access fantastic. With the conditions the fishing was limited the area is shallow with a couple of deeper holes which are close in on the right bank directly in front of the fishing area so clear water does limit these. I managed 5 chubb on the left bank, two of which came on the float all in the 3 to 4lb range, one imediately below the bridge wading and 4 from the first platform. My fishing partner fished a few swims on both banks and had to wait until about 5pm to get his only fish of the day, a 5lb chubb. Variety of baits used, fish caught on meat or large bunches of maggots. Only had two bite on pellet.