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Fished in the morning with three out of the four being caught in the morning. Used a gold headed nymph on which I caught all of them! Did not need to change the fly and was getting bites on almost every cast. I fished the lower part of the beat and worked my way upward. Most sucsess I got was towards the lower part of the beat with only one fish being caught in the evening up the beat.

4 Trout

Tried another swim for the day and caught 2 barbel and one chub, was super sunny and I left early as needed to get home too so probs didn't do it justice, also look out for some of the streamer weeds!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

All fish between 8" and 16" taken with heavy nymphs. No fish rising river in perfect condition.

9 Trout

Fished a double swim with my son just down stream of wood with my nephew in the next swim we all caught well on pellet. The river was dropping nicely with a bit of colour. This is a top class fishery that we were happy to return to after catching over 20 barbel and 30 chub in a day last year. This time we had 26 barbel and 29 chub on the first day and 14 barbel 32 chub on the second, you need a lot of bait to make this fish well, what a place.

26 Barbel, 29 Chub

Fished pellet at the far end of the fishery.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

We had approx 12 barbel to 10lb and approx 30 chub to 5lb. The river was in perfect condition following the previous weeks heavy rains.

12 Barbel, 30 Chub

12lb bar of silver and another of 10.5lb from the Rocks on an Usk Grub variant

2 Salmon

Nice, intimate beat which definitely needs a short rod. I used a 6'6" 3wt glass rod and anything longer would have made casting very tricky.
Water was low but fish were rising. I had half a dozen takes to a green klinkhamer and a deer hair emerger but none stayed on. There are strands of both barbed and plain wire at various places along the beat but, with one exception, these were easy enough to negotiate. Shame about the rubbish in the river but a pleasant couple of hours nonetheless.

River level perfect after rain midweek showing around 0.25m on the gauge. Still carrying a nice bit of colour and a good flow I fished French leader with 2 weighted Nymphs.
Had 30+ Trout mainly about 6 inches with the best 2 around 12 inches. I had to finish around 2 so I only managed the first 2 fields up to the last house on the road. A few small up wings hatching as I left and 1 or 2 fish rising to them.

30 Trout, 1 Grayling

17lbs from the Kitty and 9lbs from the Cafn, both on fly.

2 Salmon