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Hard fighting immaculate 15lb carp caught on pellet

1 Other

After catching two fish on the dry fly in my first pool I thought it was going to be a real red letter day but from thereon it went quiet and I only ended up with one more fish, on the nymph. All sense of time disappeared down there - 7 lovely hours spent and I only got just past the first footbridge.

A short video of the highlights can be found here: https://youtu.be/CDH7f7p1msE

Such a special place

3 Trout

River higher than normal fast and quite weedy. Fished on bottom pool, lots and lots of small barbell, too many to count all between 1-2 lb. Beware when booking this beat start early or later on in day because of heavy boat traffic between 10.30-17.00 at this time of year.

Less fish today but bigger, spoilt by too many canoeists.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

A good day's fishing and a fair amount of walking. Plenty of nice water to have a go at. Caught from beats 3 and 4. Only a nibble was the reward for the trek down to beat 6. Legered meat and pellets the method.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

This is a cumulative report based on 3 x 30 minute lunch time visits last week. 3 fish, 11, 14 and 15 inch. The Tarrell holds some large trout by wild stream standards, but they are incredibly wary. Best method recently has been to fish with a French leader and a single 3mm jig nymph to get down into the deeper holes. A lot of the deeper pools hold more fish than initially meets the eye, so would recommend spending 5 minutes (or more) simply watching for fish before you even think about casting or wading.

3 Trout

After work visit hoping to find an evening rise. Wasted an hour fishing nymphs on a french leader (in perfect conditions!) for just a small fish. Switched to a size 18 rusty spinner and started picking up fish in the pool tails and glides. All typical heavily spotted Usk fish from 10 to 14 inches. Finished just after 9pm, with a decidedly cold autumnal chill in the air.

8 Trout

A cold night and a bright, sunny start to the day didn't fill me with confidence and sure enough, it started slowly. I had one barbel in the morning and two eels (one quite chunky), then nothing until the evening when I managed another four small barbel. It's a really beautiful beat, but I do wonder if the same few swims get hammered every day.

Thanks WUF for a great day.

5 Barbel, 2 Other

Lots of fish rolling ,bit of water in the river led to 6 barbel and an unwelcome eel.

6 Barbel, 1 Other

Day two on Howcaple heavy rain and wind in the morning so did not fish until afternoon /evening four barbel two in the 7-8 lb range river level still good and some colour

4 Barbel