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A really enjoyable day's fishing even there weren't many fish to be seen and those we did see were all small, in the 3 to 4 inch range.
I had one small brownie and missed a few more on a Goldbead Hare's ear.
It was the first time I had fished at Aberedw and only the second time fly fishing a river so a lack of experience may have had a lot to do with (almost) lack of fish.

1 Trout

Staying in Hay-on-Wye for the weekend with my wife. After a visit to Symonds Yat and Tintern Abbey grabbed a cheeky couple of hours fishing before dinner. Pretty beat with a good head of trout but the bank vegetation impossible to navigate so plenty of chest-deep wading along side some of the deeper pools!!! Managed 4 wbt to about 9 inches on a Parachute Adams before returning for dinner - Tomatitos in Hay which is super-friendly and well worth a visit.

4 Trout

First of two days. We fished up near the parking at the orchard. While swim access was difficult it was possible with a bit of care to find safe areas to fish. It was tough going for the barbel but the chub fed avidly. The barbel all came late in the day with the biggest going 6 1/2 lbs. Biggest chub was about 4 lbs. For me the best part of fishing there was the peace and quiet. No traffic noise. Very few walkers and only a small number of canoes compared to some of the other stretches I’ve fished.

4 Barbel, 24 Chub

Weather overcast and raining for most of the day which made the banks very slippery. River still brown coloured from the algae bloom. Fished the wood crib. All fish caught on meat, couldn’t buy a bite on pellet.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 4 Other

2 Trout

A great day, 6 of the barbel we're between 5-8 lb, the rest were between 2 and 4 lb. It rained all day. Fished between 7 am - 6.00 pm

13 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived early and fished the hut, raining most of the morning, one small chub and an eel on corn, lost several larger fish, two or three salmon were leaping all morning which was great to see, one of which was a substantial fish. Packed up around 11am but returned to the same swim at 6pm, the fish had definitely switched on, 4 very nice chub to 5lb 8oz and a barbel of 6lb on the last cast of the day, several other barbel hooked but lost. All the evening fish taken on meat.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 2 Other

River down and slow, rained all day, very few bites but a couple of lovely chub around the 5lb mark on feeder/pellet.

2 Chub

Quite difficult conditions with frequent showers of much needed rain but river very low. A fair amount of fly life hatching mostly bright yellow bodies. No luck with gold heads so switched to dry even though no rises. Had a few rises to a yellow dry and managed to hook one. Later had two on a small yellow emerger at top of beat. Watched otters playing for ten minutes fifteen yards from me and decided to leave it to the experts!

3 Trout