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1 Trout

0 fish caught. Sun beating down could not get them feeding.

Very hot

9 Barbel, 12 Chub

1 Trout

1 Trout

In reply to J. A. from Rhayader's question, the huge fallen ash is still across the river and makes for a real obstacle to those of us in our dotage. I've also always wondered how one is expected to get from the weir to the next fishable water about 100m upstream? It's too deep to wade. I've always battled the shoulder high nettles and brambles and fence through the dilapidated factory site. Surely there's a better way?

3 Trout

2 anglers
Very hot weather.
Amazing setting drive right up in 4x4s no issue.
Fishing was like watching west ham united full of hope but a little crap.
Probably barbel there for the better fisherman!

3 Chub

Bowled up at an old favourite of mine at eleven this morning, warm and getting warmer!!!.... reading 18 in my truck when I parked up..... always have a mooch over the bridge while setting up. Some sedge and a few olives on the go .... so I opted for an eighteen para Pheasant tail .... a good suggestive all-rounder!!
Real jungle stuff here now ..... perhaps i can see why it's hardly been fished this season, shame really, six seven ,even ten years ago , total fun .... now a lot of the decent pools are long since hindered by fallen debris or over hanging trees !!! I'm sure it's why Arrow Kington hasn't bern fished at all too !!! There's that Commando assault course half way, in the form of a fallfen huge Ash tree .... no way around it really !!! Is it still there WUF????? ...can the habitat team cut some steps into it as a minimum ...... just so that anglers can get over it !!! I digress ..... big time !!!! .......lol !!!
Anyway where you can get a cast away on the Upper Edw, great smash takes to my dry Para PT. Lovely stuff !!! Stayed on the same dry all morning ....Three were a respectable size too, maybe eleven inches or so, in a tally of nine .... that said,the smallest today was probably an eight inch brownie.... lovely to catch on the six foot , two weight rod ....just fun !!!!!
A lot of the top beat iisn't worth the effort now, it's so taken over by nature, think the map needs to be adjusted to dictate this !!!! It's certainly not fishable past that one huge field .... really needs the top rung of barbed wire crimped as the full length is done with taught stock fencing and barbed wire ...Farmers must dream of barbed wire, its literally everywhere , damn stuff !!! .... its alright for agile people, but I guess you need to be agile to fish here from the word go, so disco dancing over a barbed wire fence is easy compared to some of the tree clambering you need to do !!!
Still an enjoyable four hours, I cut out into that big field at three bells, hot by then !!! 25 degrees !!! Strewth was I ready for a diet coke when I got to my wagon .... like a wilde beast at a watering hole !!! Lol ..... A good hair cut with four chaps would soon sort the lower " decent " beat !!! Here's a thing WUF .... I KNOW we're in a world of volunteering now, but six sessions done by each member of a" staunch work party" has gotta be worth a free wild streams season permit !!! You reap what you sow !!! And hopefully the gaffer is reading this !!! Let's tidy up all these lovely streams back to what they used to be like !!! A fun few hours today ....... home , a freshen up, and a couple of scoops in The Crown in Rhayader .... sorted!!!

9 Trout

Very busy day today with a decent amount of chub and 3 nice barbel between 4lb and 7lb

3 Barbel, 11 Chub

Fished pontygwaith bridge, using worm few bits nothing caught.