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My first time on this beat and had great fun. I decided to attack it with my tenkara rod and a gold headed nymph and was not disappointed. Hooked into a beautiful 8" out of season brownie within the first few casts at the bottom of the beat. I then had two grayling of a similar size from a pool round the corner. It then went quiet for the next hour or so and i was beginning to wonder if I had already seen my last fish of the day. I then partially fell in and got water in my waders which was not great. I soon forgot about this misfortune when I landed a 12" brownie from the next pool up. A 14" fish then slammed into the nymph on the next cast into the same small pool and put up an awesome scrap on the tenkara rod.
Some grayling were rising in the next pool up so I switching to a small pink F-fly and managed to tempt one small lady which was nice. Sadly this spooked the rest of the shoal so the dry was swapped for the nymph. I lost a hefty grayling and landed another three trout between 8-10" before darkness set in. Sadly I only managed to cover about 3/4 of the beat despite fishing for nearly 5 hours. I guess I spent too much time covering each pool. Went home cold but satisfied and will definitely fish this beat again.

6 Trout, 3 Grayling

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Chub

Not a great stretch. The video with the birdsong soundtrack somehow fails to capture the noise of the continual traffic on the opposite side. Bankside very steep and overgrown - can only get to the river in a few places, and virtually none of them have a place flat enough for a stool to sit on. Not a great day. Sorry, but I'll go elsewhere next time I'm on the Wye, unless they do something about access to the river.

2 Trout

Blanked. Couldn't muster a bite between the two of us. Lucky it's such a lovely place.

Arrived at 10 with the river running clearer than I've ever seen it.
Bitterly cold when exposed to the wind.
Started off above bridge fishing duo with Klink and ptn. Nothing caught in first couple of pools, so decided to go right to the top of the beat.
Had 2 six inch grayling, then one about 14.
I was then "joined" by two gentlemen who proceeded to fish above me. I stayed in the spot I was and carried on.
The other 2 were walking past me on the opposite bank, and I asked them, what ticket they were fishing on. Their English was not to good but I managed to ascertain that they too had tickets and were suprised to see me as well.
The conversation then changed when the the younger of the 2 asked if I had a problem, and if I did, "let's go". Being no spring chicken I let this ride and they continued off down the beat.
Just after this I startled a salmon which had nosed it's way into the side no more than 2 yards above me. I watched it for a minute, and as I went to get phone out for a photo it spooked.
Walking back down the beat, my new best friends had split up and were fishing the other likely spots. I continued below the bridge, there was nobody in the cottage, so was able to fish there. Managing another 7 grayling to 10 inches, all to the dry.
Phone coverage on my network appears non existent here, (it's why I go) so a call to Wye and Usk or authorities was out of the question.

10 Grayling

Steep drop in temperatures resulted in no fish seen or caught, no bites.

cold snap air temp 4 degrees - water temp 7 degrees. Fish not feeding. Had two small chub on feeder maggot.

2 Chub

1st frost of the year killed any hope, but as prepaid I had to give it go - just a small chub from the deeper water saved me from a blank.
Cracking beat though, will be back next summer/autumn to have another go

1 Chub