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Enjoyable couple of hours fishing this great beat, before driving back to Cornwall. No salmon seen or showing

Only managed 5 hours in the morning but great fishing nevertheless. Best fish of two days caught a 9 2 Barbel just pipping yesterday's best fish and another of 8 12 in today's session. All caught on feeder and pellet.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished all day. 5 fish caught 1 on Dry the rest on nymphs.. The river was high and coloured.. Seen 3 people poaching and they didn't seem bothered to see us one bit

5 Trout

29 inch fish so 10lb Salmon on FC slightly colour from Redbrook.

1 Salmon

Only 1 rod fished. 5 chub on cheese paste.

4 Chub

Sunday 10th. Bridge pool llanellen ( Usk )14 lbs and 9 lbs on a single hook fc for John Barnston and a 3rd fish lost at the net!

2 Salmon

Arrived to find river high and coloured but perseverance was rewarded with 6 fish and many more missed to up and downstream nymphs so the lesson is, don't give up.

6 Trout

Spent the morning on bank maintenance cutting over hanging branches, strimming bracken to ease bank casting. 3 new seats opened up another 2 pegs. Fish rising in the morning. Afternoon river was unfishable - high and silty due to the river Elan.

Got up on Sunday and couldn't decide where to go, as an all round angler I could have chosen almost anywhere.
I decided it would be a good idea to fish Llanfechan, I'd always liked the look of the beat. Did I check the weather or the water levels? - No I didn't!
I arrived to find the river high and chocolate coloured, and the weather was showers and a very stiff wind at times. There were sunny intervals and times when the wind dropped. I decided to fish anyway, as I'm still a beginner I guessed it would be good experience.
I walked the entire beat trying czech nymphing, indicator nymphing and swinging wet files, not a touch.
Then on the way back down the beat I decided to try a fairly large yellow lure, and to my surprise started to get takes.
I missed two and lost one before landing two 8" brownies, then I tried stripping in the lure very, very fast. As I was bringing the lure out a very big trout took it off the surface, unfortunately I didn't react quickly enough and give line. It snapped my tippet easily and my lure was gone.
I only had one of those lures in my box and couldn't get another take after that, on a bright side I learned a lot. Will definitely return to this beat, easy to find, quiet and beautiful. Sadly can't say much about access because I hardly got in the water!

2 Trout

The river was in good condition on arrival but Saturday’s rain soon made its presence felt and the river rose rapidly forcing a move of swim. The conditions were very difficult with lots of rubbish and weed coming down with a lot of colour in the river. 7 chub between 3 and 4lb were all I could muster but given the conditions I was pleased with that. All were caught on feeder and meat or boilie.

7 Chub