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Lovely kept beat. Thanks to Colin.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

2 Grayling

Nothing doing very low water

The rivers are extremely low and not knowing the beat I walked a long way upstream to find fishable water. The beat changes character quite significantly and narrows down a great deal as one progresses upstream. I took fifteen or so trout up to a best of 12" and one grayling. I was very pleased to get the grayling as I love catching them and this is my last day on the Wye /Usk waters.
Although daytime temperatures have been in the mid to high twenties this morning when I went out at around dawn the temperature was 3.5 degrees centigrade. I could't believe the chill.
I enjoyed a very pleasant morning, I had only planned to fish for half the day as I have to pack and sort things out for my onward journey.
On the river I saw a family of otters playing in the shallows in the deep shade of the tree cover. Unfortunately they saw me at much the same time and I didn't have time to take a snap. The trout on the Irfon seem to punch well above their weight and put up spirited battles. A lovely morning on the water, thank you.

15 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 barbel, 5 chub.

This is a challenging beat - although not as steep, I would liken it to the Clettwr beat with some deep pools running over bedrock. I fished for 6 hours and although I rose a few, I only got one to hand. Water was very low and clear. I saw lots of fish, but they saw me too and stalking the pools was very difficult! There was no significant hatch and I needed to match the pale, watery flies buzzing over the surface which the fish were coming up for - I found a CDC merger pattern most most effective. The location is stunning, it is truly a beautiful valley from Pen-y-Fan down to Brecon.

1 Trout

1 Trout

Was an amazing place. Thank you

My mate was unwell so had the beat to myself; Started off on the feeder but too much cut weed coming down river made keeping a line in the water a waste of time, So set up the float rod which is always my preferred way of fishing. All the Barbel came within the first two hours after first light from there on it was Chub an Eel and a beautiful Grayling.

6 Barbel, 15 Chub, 2 Other

I fished between 6am and 1pm in the meadow section with barbel of 9lb, 9lb 12oz and a smaller one of around 5/6lb on pellet/paste. 4 chub landed to around 4lb 8oz and missed many other bites. Unfortunately had to leave unexpectedly early otherwise I would have stayed all day, the fish were ravenous.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub