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Very windy managed a couple of small grayling & 1 trout, lost a much bigger fish which snapped 4lb tippett, all on dry fly.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Love this beat and never disappoints!!! 4 Barbel all very good fish up to 9lbs and 1 chub to about 3lbs. Nothing to really report, just a very enjoyable day out on the river, even all the canoeist were polite and moved to the other side. Wonders will never cease... Thanks WUF more adventures to follow.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

24 Barbel

Fancied a few hours nymphing today. Started at about 11a.m and fished till 2.30pm all grayling took tungsten beaded nymphs with about half taking the point and half taking the dropper. Size wise, several between 8 -12 inches and a few up to 16 inches. Lost several to hook pulls also, one of which looked and felt near the 3lb mark. All trout between 8-14 inches. Water levels near on summer flow and once 60 yards past the bridge the pace of water drastically slackens. All in all a cracking few hours!! could of been more for them hook pulls, oh well!

7 Trout, 20 Grayling

Spinning on the southern bank, eastern end of the Usk reservoir from around 1700 to 1800. Windy and overcast. No fish caught, or seen! Other anglers at the reservoir at the same time also not catching anything.

I've walked around this remote location many times in the past and thought it was about time I gave it a go on a bright and sunny August day. It is set in a stunning and location and lies a few miles south of Builth Wells.
On arrival I headed for the south bank and set up a waggler rod and a feeder rod and feeding a mix of hemp, corn and pellets but no action on either method in the first couple of hours so I headed for the north bank and after an unsuccessful hour or so on the float rod I switched to feeder at long range and was soon rewarded with my first wild carp of around a pound. This was followed by a further 2 more carp to 2lb and a chub around 1 1/2lb.Fish caught on both pellet and corn. Now looking forward to a future visit with a little more knowledge in tow!

1 Chub, 3 Other

Late afternoon start around 4.30, perfect trout conditions.. 22 degrees slight cloud, lovely height and colour. fished up through the flats saw plenty but no takers, later worked down from the top of the beat taking one in the corner pool and then another in Pwll Daffi both 12" on small copper hairs ear. Lots of fish activity several 2lb+ jumping about, beautiful spot.. just me and the heron at the end. Will return!

2 Trout

fished the afternoon after cutting bracken off the bank side all morning ,picked up all of the trout from the heads of the fast water on klinkhammer and sedges the grayling were holding in deeper water ,perhaps trying to get away from the two broods of goose anders that have adopted the beat, klink and dink with half of the grayling taking the holy grail nymph....a good days fishing.

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

A couple of hours fishing for two novice anglers. Fished dry fly method. No fish caught, but surface splashes at least gave confidence that there were fish present. A good learning exercise, and we will endeavour to try again.

Our first time on this beat, so a bit of time was spent walking around looking for likely spots. The river looked low, so most of our time was spent on the top part of the beat. The best bite time by far was 8pm onwards, as the middle of the day was very hot and bright.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub