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3 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel

Feeder and pellet tactics. Picked up 1 early fish and then nothing until late pm for the rest.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

After a hard fight a cock fish of approximately 30 lb from the Cafn stream landed on a GP and returned safely.

1 Salmon

8 lbs well turned hen on fly returned

1 Salmon

What a beautiful river we had the pleasure of fishing. Courtfield was the beat and we managed to bag our selfs two barbel one of 10lbs on the nose and a lovely scrapping 9lb 4oz.

2 Barbel

Salmon seen, but not caught. btw - I am not impressed by the beat notes provided (I had not fished at Chainbridge before). The notes describe the wading on most of the beat as relatively easy over the gravel riverbed. I found the wading at the top of the beat (Rock pool) to be slippery mud with large boulders - positively scary with today's fairly high water level (a foot and a couple of inches on the gauge at Usk). In the faster water lower down there is indeed some gravel in the gaps between the boulders, but not much. I fished only the left bank from the wood upstream.

Rain, rain and more rain. We tried everything with dry fly and nymphs, nothing worked. Almost no activity, only saw two fish rising; and a couple of salmons.
Even when the rain stopped, there was nothing we could do it seemed. We had an ok day, just very disappointing to come back empty handed!

nil

a few hours then torrential rain! made way back to car soaked through with not a break in the clouds . shame as grayling started rising just beforehand. levels on lugg pretty much summer levels and all the rain of late not risen it at all.

11 Grayling