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Fished from about 11.00am until 18:00pm. Tried for the first two hours to catch on the float but despite a couple of bites nothing to show. Changed to feeder tactics and started to catch slowly throughout the day. All fish in absolute pristine condition. Martin managed a 9lb 6oz Barbel, a Chub 3.5lb and some Dace. I managed two Barbel, best 6.5lb and numerous Dace, two Grayling and a Brownie. Pellets, boilies, bread and maggots.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 20 Other

River up a few inches and pushing through a bit but otherwise looked good. Still, struggled to locate many fish and finished the day with three 4 inch grayling, a ten and eleven incher and an OOS brownie of eleven inches. All taken on a various heavy czech/tungsten beaded nymphs fished on point and single dropper.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very hard days fishing. Last one for me this season and hoped to go out with a bang but not so lucky, the fish won.

3 Trout

Fished lower section of beat another great day to be on this fabulous river, conditions looked good and we were hopeful of an even better day when 2 of the Barbel were landed around lunchtime. Alas only one further Barbel and 5 Chub came in the afternoon with majority to meat hookbait.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

A good days fishing river slightly up but running fairly clear. 9 grayling and 2 trout all fish in good condition. Fish taken on nymphs under indicator.

2 Trout, 9 Grayling

Fished beat 2 below Whitney Toll Bridge in several swims before island and then downstream of the island opposite small red brick building. River running about 2ft high with a nice colour. Mostly fished for barbel and chub with pellets/meat.
Caught all fish downstream of the island area on halibut flavoured luncheon meat with pellets in a feeder. Fish found in crease between slack and fast water. A nice days fishing!

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Good days fishing 5 barbel and 5 chub. Lovely 9.15lbs barbel which finished the day off will back here soon.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

This was our 3rd visit to this beat & the river was the highest & fastest we've seen it here, with a lot of debris & leaves hitting the line. Boys Rocks & the 1st swim had almost disappeared. Fished ground bait feeder, pellet & meat but struggled all day, despite trying several swims. Caught 1 chub mid afternoon & just over an 8lb barbel at the end of the day. We will definitely be back soon.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Hi, had 3 Barbel to one rod 11lb 7oz, 6lb 6oz and 6lb 5oz. Fishing conditions were tough with terminal tackle being lost on snags due to flow. Also banks were quite difficult to fish as rain made the steep banks slippy. However we all had a great time and look forward to visiting again soon. Although the other three rods did not catch, one other had a chance with a missed Barbel bite. We fished pellet with feeder and on reflection should have fished heavier feeders. 3oz feeders and 4oz leads did not hold bottom in main flow and quite quickly found a snag! Overall over the moon with 11.7lb Barbel though! Thank you for the opportunity, countryside was stunning.

3 Barbel

Spent the penultimate day of the upriver season (my last) at the Dolgau beat as a guest. The river looked perfect when I arrived but rose a little during the day. Tried my damnedest for 10 hours but the salmon simply beat me. They were lots about and showing just once at the smooth tails, and the rapid heads of the pools, then vanished, going through like torpedoes. So I caught nothing, but did that matter to me? No, not in the slightest. I was doing what I like best; angling in the upper Wye. Well to me, the best bit of true angling is yet to come, and I can’t wait till November to once again spy, stalk, and then watch the magnificent Wye salmon jump at the falls, and finally dig that nest and lay the eggs.
My grateful thanks for the exciting angling go to Richard the owner of the wonderful Dolgau beat.