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Fished from about 4pm due to heat. Lovely early evening session if a bit sporadic. Managed to winkle out a few fish from the deeper stretch on far bank once the shadows had fallen. River low, warm and in need some rain in next couple of weeks.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Bag limit reached on 3 days. Most on spinner. Very good quality fishing. Shame about fishermen, who pay to fish, being disturbed by swimmers, people allowing their dogs in the water and throwing stones. The rangers are a good bunch but there is not enough of them.

4 Trout

Fished from 7.30am - 7.30pm. Small chub showed early with one of 3lb. Barbel came steadily all day, mainly in the six pound area, but a one off large one appeared mid afternoon at 10lb 7oz. An eel of 2lb 10oz put in an appearance as well.
Ledgered pellet. River low and quite colored.
Stayed at the Inn on the Wye - very close by, very friendly place.

12 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Day one - Great expectations, very hot, too hot. That walk is just too far, even without the heat.
The Taxi would have been great but could not get him on phone but spoke to him later and he only takes you to the river. Then you still have 3 fields and 3 stiles to cross to get to the top end were the faster water is.
Finally arrived saturated and knackered, water very low and clear. Had a nice chub about 4lb second cast but nothing for rest of day/evening between two of us.
But I must say it is a lovely location and in the right condition would have produced more fish. Main bait used elipse pellet.

1 Chub

Absolutely loads of small trout surface activity from 8pm until 10pm and in a short 20mins with the 4WT trout rod, caught 9 brownies klink and dinking between 5 and 10 inches and missed/lost twice as many, fishing barbless.
Broke the sewin kit out at last light and moved to the pool between the main beat parking and Crewil. In the gloom I could see a few fish splashing down stream of me. They weren't of any size, 2-4lbs but I think they were running as I had a 2 sharp tugs but they didn't stick. Maybe if I wasn't fishing barbless they might have!
No one else around. Lovely evening though on a lovely beat.

9 Trout

River dropped again over night and after such a hectic day on the Monday, the barbel definitely seemed to have dropped back, possibly into deeper water downstream. Still, I had some great fun on the float catching the chub but lost a couple of nice barbel in the faster flow. However, I did catch a lovely 9lb+ barbel from the deep hole below the island so was pretty chuffed with that. Had to work much harder for the fish today but still a very enjoyable day on the Wye.

4 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very hot day. Had a couple of Chub in the morning, then three Barbel in the evening, all on pellets from the croy. Nice quiet beat.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Hot sunny day - some sporadic surface feeding, both fish (small) on Para-Adams size 18.

2 Trout

My wife and I were on holiday in Cwm Irfon, so I booked the Upper Irfon beat for Tuesday and Wednesday.
I fished for 1.5 hours before breakfast and caught 5 small trout of 4oz or less. I saw several larger trout (1lb - 1.5lb), but couldn't tempt them.
I fished again for 1 hour at dusk, and caught 3 small trout.

8 Trout

No fish caught, the odd tiny one taking flies off the surface. Beautiful backdrop and superb weather, but of course the low flows are the negative and not a single hint of a fish of any size in what little water remained. I did catch a lovely wild brown trout here last year in much better water, so I'd recommend to anyone thinking of fishing here, wait for plenty of rain first!