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3 early Barbel and then plenty of Chub. A good mornings fishing.

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

Was looking forward to being back on this beat after a previous visit in May. However was disappointed to find a Merthyr member had been salmon fishing through the beat before we got there and then continued to do so despite being told that he was on the passport scheme water. Have raised this directly with the booking office by phone particularly as the same thing happened the last time we fished here - although in this instance a different Merthyr member was trout fishing. It would be really helpful if the Foundation could raise this with Merthyr and ask them to remind their members of their fishery boundaries and the location of the passport scheme beat to avoid other people fishing on the passport scheme having the same problem.
WUF Note: MTAA have been contacted but we do not believe these "anglers" were their members, rather poachers who claimed to belong to the club. Please report any suspicious activity like this to NRW on 0800 80 70 60.

2 Trout

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished mid afternoon to late evening. River very high and brown. Fished at far end of beat on concrete jetty downstream into pool as river was impossible to read. None the less come along way in search of barbel and tried using sweetcorn, pellets and luncheon meat. All large chub 3-4lb caught on ledgered luncheon meat while smaller chub caught by my son on floated sweetcorn. Also caught 2 eels on Halibut pellets. Good to see salmon jumping saw 10 jump including kelt next to us. Nice spot to watch wide variety of birds and canoeists were no problem. Will try again when the river isn't so high.

18 Chub, 2 Other

2 Small brown trout caught on the dry fly. Fish rising sporadically. Nymph fishing did not produce any fish.

2 Trout

Good day on the river although the fishing was slow I had one chub and lost two barbel to the snags my mate had four chub and one barbel and lost a few fish to snags we both found the swims quite snaggy we also thought some of the overhead branches could do with a trim to make casting easier other than that we thought the swims were well presented tactics were long hook links and hair rigged pellets and boillies

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Arrived at 6am, disappointed with lack of detail with regards to parking. Started fishing for the barbel, plenty of chub bites but nothing landed. 45 mins heavy downpour and the river rose over 6 inch in 30 mins so packed up at 12 and drove home due to the weather. Lovely stretch though and will definitely return

Great day with Mick the local Gilly but sadly the only thing that got hooked was myself when Mick caught me on the left cheek when demonstrating his role cast (Ouch!). The midday break at the local pub called the Hostelry was very relaxing. There were several Salmon seen jumping but with the water having colour none taken. Although no fish caught my brother and I enjoyed the day and was kept entertained by Micks good humour.

Rising river and colouring water. Lower stretch fished better in deeper runs amongst the shallow riffles. Plenty of barbel and a few chub.

35 Barbel, 10 Chub