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River up and coloured from previous day's torrential rain, which was an improvement on previous low levels. Masses of debris made it impossible to fish beyond the near margins for most of the day before clearing late afternoon. Found quality barbel up to 8.5 pounds in one swim, plus the unusual feat of foul hooking two eels (both safely returned).

8 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

A difficult day on a rising river complete with all the usual debris making it difficult to hold a bait in position, there are no slacker areas on this stretch to target when conditions are like this. Guess we went a day to early!

All fish returned, 7-8 inches in size. Very few rises, sporadic hatches of sedge. River was slightly peaty coloured good height for the fly.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water clear until 4pm when coloured fast, fished from dawn and saw around 12 salmon, possible residents. Caught 2 trout, 0.5lb and 1lb on Flying C spinner and an elver.

2 Trout

This is the first time we have fished the Wye and were impressed with the online booking system and detailed map of the beat.
River conditions were good, with clear water dropping from the previous days heavy rain. Saw and cast to a sizable brown trout in Bend Pool, but no luck.
Fished the entire beat with occassional knocks but no fish rising. The long gliding run below Abercymryn Pool didn't fullfil its trouty or grayling potenial, with my one and only trout of the day yielding to a weighted grey shrimp.
Upper Craig Llyn Pool produced the only other trout of the day caught on a gold head pheasant tail nymph.
Look forward to trying other beats in the future.

2 Trout

8 Barbel, 5 Chub

Late report from July 6th. 7lb spinner- Robin Woods.
August 15th - 6lb cock and August 17th - a fine 12lb cock for Ben Woods, aged 10 on spinner. 3 fish lost on fly in same week!? All coloured fish.

3 Salmon

Conditions remain tough with low water but managed to find some smaller brownies up to 1.5lb on nymphs (in some of the deeper pools) and dries once the hatch came on around 7pm.

9 Trout

Started at 8am...on my way home at 1pm, 6 rainbow using worm and bubble.

6 Trout

Mild weather, river running a little low and the odd fly coming off during the day. 6 trout between 5 and 9 inches, missed several more.
Lots of diversity along this beat, very good.

6 Trout