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River flow looked perfect but tough going. One barbel saved the day in the evening.

1 Barbel

A nice afternoon session in the warm sunshine after setting up camp at Tan house farm.
Looked a bit better now after recent flush through but of course very low again .Not much moving on top but a few oncers here and there to give the game away .
A couple of uppper Monnow lovelies came to hand and a few more bounced off and some others moving in the real tight inaccessable stuff so happy with that to round the season off here .
Been a tough one for sure but seems the fish have just about held out . Hardly any flow seem to coming in from the Escley but upper beat water pushing in to the junction pool nicely .
Spent fair bit of time relishing the fine weather and admiring the start of the autumnal colours on the black mountains .!
It's a beautiful place here for sure.

2 Trout

Wet fly downstream. Lovely conditions but rather bright. Three good fish of around 1lb.

3 Trout

A field of very inquisitive mixed heifers followed me to the water's edge. Much of the beat is a high near vitical bank which gave a great view of the river bed, as the water was the clearest I've ever seen. Several trout were stationed close to the bank. Unfortunately, with the interest from the heifers casting to these was out of the question and ladning the fish would have been challenging. I finally entered the river towards the bottom of the beat after some bushwacking at just about the only accessible point protected from heifer interest by an electric fence. Here the river is knee deep and quite quick over small boulders, so wadeable with a staff. When I arrived back up at a point where it might be possible to reach the fish I'd seen earlier, a strong looking dog otter pocked his head up no more than 8m away. No fish caught.

short evening stint. 1 Barbel 8LB 3OZ just above the hut swim

1 Barbel

Good day fishing with pleasant weather and light breeze throughout the day. Stopped fishing at approx 2.30pm after catching 6 rainbow trout. Trout were approx 2lb with 2no exceeding that weight. Another angler fishing to south of me also caught 4 rainbow trout by time I left.

6 Trout

Grayling 1 1/2 lb est ,river low sunny conditions, lovely stretch.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

River was dropping but still had some flow on, fairly clear, just a few bits of weed coming down. Barbel up to 9lb 3oz on the feeder and pellet. Good average size of fish with 7lb 14oz and 3 other 5-6lbers. Most barbel came in the first meadow from the car park. Advise taking a long handled landing net and be careful on the steep banks! The Croy at the top was easier to fish and we caught some nice chub there but no barbel.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished by hut nice day????????

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

2 Barbel