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This report and the next are for 2 anglers CT and AW.

This report is for CT

6 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

This report is for AW

10 Barbel

Decided to walk down to the woods and had a great day with Barbel and Chub from the start to legered pellet or meat.Most Barbel around 5-8 lbs apart from one of 10 lbs to Andy.Weather stayed cloudy all day which was ideal for fishing. First time back here for a while but looking forward to returning.

Just fished the channels. Trout to a lb and grayling over 2lb. Dries and small nymphs

6 Trout, 12 Grayling

A tough day on a low river. Perseverance payed off with a 7 1/2 lb barbel on a Halibut Marine pellet from the last cast of the day.

1 Barbel

Arrived at 7:20 due to heavy traffic on journey from Cornwall.
Had a chub first cast 4lb followed by 2 barbel 7:3 and 8:6
Lost 2 more barbel as I was very undergunned for the dark evening. Only had a small torch. Lesson learned

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

For 2 of us beginners this was our first encounter with genuinely wild fish. Many thanks to Lyn Davies for excellent and patient guiding!

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Such an amazing place, and so beautiful. Epic upper Usk. Shallows, deep gullies, waterfalls… it’s got it all. Amazing rock formations too. River was low, but it did have a good bit of flow after yesterday’s rain (no rain for the previous two weeks or so). Clear water, so fish easily spooked. Mixed conditions, heavily overcast most of the day, rain showers and maybe 10 minutes of sun!

Odd glare off the surface was hard to contend with. Polarised glasses helped, but it was so dark on occasions that they became useless. Two fish caught, one more lost just before the net. Decent size fish, probably 14” approx, and thick. Klinkhammer indicator with nymph below, all taken on nymph.

2 Trout

2nd consecutive day on the beat so we pretty knew what to expect. 3 nice chub around 4lb during the day. Barbel only showing interest well into the evening. 3 in quick succession to 8lb 2oz. on pellet.

7 Barbel