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River very low and clear, baking hot sunny day, couldn’t stay until dusk due to family commitments. Tough day no fish, saw a couple of nice barbel in the shallows. Ps the extraction pump ran most of the day.

Sat 24 June a.m. was disappointing as we had bites but not many real takes and caught just 1 Chub. We had been using feeders & PVA bag with pellet on the hook. We reviewed our method for the afternoon session and decided to just fish a pellet on the hook with no feeder or PVA and started to catch immediately at regular intervals, 6 Barbel to 6 lb 7 oz and 5 Chub to +4 lb. A good looking easy to fish beat and we look forward to going back.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Low flows, spooky fish, some big pools for big trout but not well connected - likely bigger fish moved out?

5 Trout

Following on from yesterday's trip to Wyebank, my son (10) and I shared a rod on the next day on Courtfield. A 4.30am alarm call saw us settled in my favourite swim in the woods on Courtfield, (where I'd enjoyed a good day the previous Monday 19 June). However, action was somewhat slower than I'd expected - the odd chubby rattle on the tip now and then, but nothing developing. An hour or so in, we had a very modest chub - about a pound - followed by another a half hour or so later. Then it happened, the tip rattled, rattled again and then heaved right over and junior was in to a decent fish that swam low and slow. Taking his dad's instructions well, he brought the fish slowly towards the waiting net, only to have it rush off again in to the current. Second time of asking, we netted it and having given the fish a really good rest, we weighed it at 8lb 4oz. Another long rest before the fish swam off strongly, junior beaming from ear to ear.
Next cast and dad's turn with the rod, this time the culprit being a 5lb chub - lovely! The start of the feeding spell? No, turned out to be the last action for some time, so weighing up the long drive back to Oxford and a river rapidly filling up with canoes, we decided to head home.
All fish came to paste wrapped halibut pellets, either 14mm (singles) or 8mm (multiples, 2 or 3).
Thanks once again to WUF and Don Macer-Wright. What a brilliant couple of days.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

First time here for me and a corker of a river here. Even the car parking is very good , tucked out of the way and quiet and peaceful with a super view down the valley.
Right from the first pool I was getting takes to a 14 para adams fished speculatively. The third pool up with a very nice run in to it had quite a good lot of fish showing on top. The back markers where having me at it, being the small guys and shaking themselves off (note to self ...softer action rod needed next time out) but working up to the head the larger chaps where staying on. Stunning fish, fat and healthy!
From then on up there was at the very least one fish in each run or pool and it is a series of these one after the other and fairly easy going. The bigger pools had a good few fish in them it seems.
All the fish where in super condition (8" to 12") and are quite the scrappers considering a fair bit of the water is fairly sedate in flow.
The Adams accounted for them all and lots of smaller fish having a go at it but the better sized fish where nailing the fly properly. I can live with that!
A small amount of varied fly coming off here and there and the rocks and stones where they where clean where crawling with bugs and micro caddis cases.
A pair of Kingfishers where whizzing up and down all afternoon. Stunning.
I didn't get time to do the whole beat, maybe a third of it but will be back for more for sure and am looking forward to that.
A cracking beat, don't know how this one had not got on my radar before now !

8 Trout

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time fishing this beat and started from the middle of the beat via Farm with no problem with access. Conditions were fine with not too much wind and no rain. Had no luck in connecting with any fish. Found the river low in places but I have to say the Llangoed Pool is the most scenic part of the river and very deep. Saw fish rising but being a novice could not get my fly anywhere near them. Interesting beat with a lot to offer.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub