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4 Barbel, 8 Chub

River high but dropping, lots of debris in the water and lots of weed. Good fishing though above the woods. Beautiful barbel to 8lb.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Chub

River a good height with a touch of colour - dropped my wife off to her stained glass workshop, near Hay, then had lunch at the newly refurbished Swan Hotel. Fished pm for an hour or so - going tough for an old 'un. Bankside vegetation, fallen trees. 2 os wbt about 8" and one salmon parr on small barbless nymphs. Some rising just as I left late pm A lovely kingfisher just above the bridge. Will have to be a bit more choosey re. beats - some will either keep me fit or kill me - who dares wins!

2 Trout, 1 Other

River was up and heavily coloured, two whole trees came down during the day plus loads of weed and other debris. Needed a 100g feeder and fished near side to hold bottom which was no issue as most swims on this section look better near side / middle rather than requiring a far side chuck. Stayed in one swim all day, line in at 11am after walking the stretch and baiting my swim packed up at 5.30pm. Two Barbel at 8lb, the big one went 9lb plus lost two Barbel due to hook pulls and caught a nice 4lb chub last cast. All fish to pellets or boilies. Beautiful area would go back great day.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

What a lovely stretch of stream. First time on the beat and the level was up with the water coloured from recent rain. Visibly was 6-12 inches making reading a new river very hard. I shall definitely be back to try and my luck in better conditions.
Even having no idea what was under my feet, wading was very easy with regular styles over the barbed-wire fences.

1 Trout, 14 Grayling

Just a few cast while walking along the beat in the fading light with a long rod and leader set up as I'd spent most of the day fishing the Lypole beat, the coloured water making fishing slow. The new fencing has been done really well not just tight to the river bank but also fencing off small areas of trees where the the river forms tighter bends.

Great day at Whitehouse. 4 of us block booked this beat. We all fished the upstream field as the level was too high to fish the concrete walkway. Barbel to 9.2 all taken on usual pellets and boilies and one on luncheon meat.
Staying all this week at Falcon House B&B. Great place to stay. for evening meals we went to the Moon at Mordiford.
Excellent pub food.

24 Barbel

Very difficult conditions today. The water level was rising rapidly and a lot of weed was coming down. I only fished till 13.00 as it became unfishable.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub