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2 Trout

3 Trout each, all on worm, 11 crayfish, seems to be a big problem.

6 Trout

Bright sunny day had 3 or 4 takes fishing down stream nymphs but nothing on dries . Very little activity at dusk. Only one rod fished but two booked.

Got there 1pm fed elipse pellet off bridge to see if anything was moving as river looked like weak tea, without the milk ...soon got interest of several Barbel , set up stalking rod and waded in the river under the foot bridge , 1 swan shot paternoster banded 12mm pellet was instantly taken by a lethargic Barbel of around 7lbs on landing noticed 10 or so lice on the fish ! water very warm too. back to car set up trotting rod and avon topped ledger rod and chose swim before large tree over bridge ..fed mashed corn and 6mm pellet steady , again waded out 5m to get better control over trotting line , small chub from the off , up to 2lbs , several beautiful wild trout took a liking to single grain of Green Giant corn . Good fun for a couple of hours , came out and gave the straight lead ago with hair rigged corn , this saw the first Barbel only a small one around a 1.1/2 lbs , but this one fought well. Had to try the float again now ...laid on and inched it through for 3 more Barbel of similar size ..nothing better than that.
Back to car for a drink and off down to fast water road side , fed pellet, and some corn , to no result bait all coming back draped in the slimy green weed ? Charles ( the owner came down) and I had a good natter , as I sat on my box in the shallows and in the shade ledgering big chunks of meat at the tail of the rapids ....nothing ? walked further out added a 10lb fluoro direct to braid ,pinched 3 AA on 300mm from size 4 hook ,threaded on a huge chunk of spam and cast well down fast water and let it roll back across , first bite ripped rod round to no avail so fed some broken meat chunks and be 7.30pm had landed , 2 respectable old warriors (Chub) . great day again ..one little incident with our friends the Canoe brigade , one chap was trailing a mini plastic eel behind his canoe , hence to say even when I dipped my rod under the water he snagged my line , his line however was not match for my 12lbs braid , 40 plus canoes pasted me that day and I noticed at least 80% were not wearing any floatation devices at all !!!!!!!

3 Trout, 5 Barbel, 15 Chub

The river level was very low as expected and the water very clear. Light cloud cover in the morning helped. Two smallish trout were caught, one using nymphing techniques, the other on a deer hair caddis on the duo. Two much larger trout lost, both hooked on a PTN beneath the deer hair caddis. All fish returned. Beautiful beat with some really nice faster and slower runs a pools for upstream trout fishing.

2 Trout

WET FLIES AND EMERGENTS

6 Trout

Had an enjoyable few hours fishing early morning. Lots of resident salmon showing in the vanstone pool. Could'nt tempt any into taking fished through with small flying c & small fly.

River low and clear, plenty of action using straight bomb and meat.

23 Chub

River was looking good but unfortunately the barbel didnt want to play, just two eels banked but a beautiful place to spend the day.

2 Other

One small brown trout about half a pound and another brown trout about a pound in weight. Both caught on a mepps silver spinner. River was fairly low and very clear. Both caught between quakers yard and merthyr vale

2 Trout