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New beat so not sure of what to expect. It is for the start of the season very untouched and overgrown with 2 or maybe 3 at push available swims. River is lovely and deep in places. Saw lots of small fish jumping and surprised to catch a good chub at around 3lb completely out of the blue. Trip cut sort as after 3 days on the wye I was as per the last few years struggling with bad guts and nausea, I fish all over the country carping, river and sea and the wye is the only place thay makes me feel sick. Does make me wonder why I keep coming back, but I suppose its the wildlife and peacefulness.

Highlight of this beat was zero canoes and watching the mares with the foals in the end field.

This beat has a lot of potential and needs alot of foot traffic to create some swims. The river infront of the bridge looks good but is not part of the beat.

2 Chub

Day before forecast heatwave.
Touched a few fish with nyphs between bottom boundary and the Cilieni junction. Saw and touched nothing in the Junction Pool itself. The only rising fish seen were in the Quarry Pool. An egret lifted off from there when s/he spotted my approach. Heron and cormorant also seen on beat.
As always in the quarry for me , they played hard to get, though they showed a bit of interest in a nondescript size 18 grey dry fly. Couldn’t see the insects they were rising to.
As for insect life, localised midge swarms and a few olives here and there.

Barble averaging 6 lb. Chub averaging 1 lb. Standard Leger over method mixed pellet. Swims are extremely overgrown and accessible beach type swims plagued with kayaks beaching and then proceeding to swim 10ft from me. One such group being a party of 10 or so lads on a stag weekend. All in all nor overly relaxing

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Nice to see small brown trout rising, 3 takes but nothing in the net.

Very poor, one bite between four rods across the beat.

1 Barbel

Conditions were perfect , light wind , warm and overcast.
Tough day though, had a couple of fish during the day (and a random chub) .
I waited for the evening rise , but it didn’t happen .
Lovely beat, badly overgrown in the upper section of the beat , could do with hacking back a bit for access.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

A decent evening rise from 9 to 10.15, with a size 18 emerger working a bit - though the fish seemed pretty educated!

2 Trout

Tough fishing on a hot and mostly cloudy day, river low and falling, Ross gauge around 30 to 33cm. We put in a long day 7am to 8pm amd I managed 2 smallish barbel, 4 to 5 pound and a 3 pound chub. My compatriots were not as fortunate with one blanking and the other picking up a 3 pound pike on the retrieve.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Pike