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I struggled to get to grips with this river beat, I found it too deep to wade into at most points with big drop offs right next to the banks in most areas. It looked like the far bank (opposite side to the main road) would be a better but i could not find a point shallow enough to cross over. The bed is scattered with boulders and exceptionally slippy in studded rubber soles. In the end I short line nymphed almost off the bank and picked off a nice grayling and 3 smaller fish.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Fished from 13:00 to 16:00 with the river level showing 0.35 at Abernant.
The low water level made life slightly easier as some of the bedrock was exposed making wading much safer!
3 of the Grayling all around 12 inches caught at the bottom of the beat on a pink shrimp and 1 in the top pool on a para adams.
The single Trout also took the shrimp pattern.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Only 3 of the 6 anglers booked on the water today were able to fish.
All the barbel and chub were caught using pellet/ground bait feeder tactics. Small Pike caught on spinner.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Pike

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

very tough few hours today with very minimal fly on the water and hardly any rises to speak of. fished the duo and most grayling taking the size 20 1.5mm bead on the dropper. all between 12-17 inches mainly 14 inches.

11 Grayling

Combined dropping my better half in Hay on Wye to search for books combined with my 3 hours on Abernant, and had a fabulous afternoons fishing, 3 hours on two of the main Pools "Abernant Pool & Lady Alexanders", 3 good sized Trout just under the pound and a handful of smaller Trout & Parr., a beer in "Hay" on way home, and the pair of us enjoyed Trout & Book Heaven.., a perfect day and highly recommended !!

7 Trout

2 Trout, 12 Grayling

Unfortunately we only had time for a few hours fishing in the morning, caught 1 eel of about 2lb and lost one good fish.

1 Other

Difficult day. The only fish that appeared to be active were dace and small chub. The dace managing to take an 8mm bait.
1 barbel foul hooked in the pectoral and 1 good pike that grabbed a hooked dace, eventually biting through the line.

1 Chub, 25 Other