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Great day. 7 good size rainbow caught on the bottom

7 Trout

A half decent hatch, only a few rising fish- but couldn’t work out what they were feeding on. Did have a couple of trout on the euro in the faster water. Lovely beat, would be fantastic early season I imagine. Access pretty good however I did return to my car surrounded by a dozen cattle- a stand off. Finally they moved on with no damage to car. A good day.

2 Trout

Only 10” on the gauge this morning. Traffic diversions meant that I started later than intended so didn’t fish any of the salmon pools. Very good fishing with the trout rod though, most of the fish coming from below the bridge. There were a lot of good size grayling in the beat today, no specimens but many around 12-14”
A few nice trout up to 13” too. An Usk Naylor variant with a light blue dun hackle was again, the fly that the fish were most keen on. Taken as a BWO emerger perhaps?
It was raining witches and sticks at 5.15pm and the lightening was getting too close for comfort so called it a day. Interestingly, there were a lot of very startled cormorants and goosanders overhead at the time.

9 Trout, 20 Grayling, 1 Chub

Strange sort of day ,started quietly but the Thunderstorm with torrential rain arrived in mid afternoon at about the same time the Barbel started feeding, managed a few up to around 7.5 lbs before the wet and slippery banks forced us to pack up a bit early ,nice to meet Stefan and get some tips for our next visit.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Good day again on this beat,12 barbel to 6lb feeder meat /pellet, 2 chub both over 4lb , most caught in first section in woods where it's not so snaggy and slightlydeeper .

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

Another slow day interrupted by pretty spectacular thunderstorm. Marine based baits ineffective, sweetcorn the most successful.

Excellent stay at The Cottage of Content

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

Excellent fishing, river spot on float fished with maggots in the faster water.

2 Trout, 3 Barbel, 16 Chub

River around midday , fished 3rd obvious swim down steepish bank , a few good Chubb bites , using a larger pellet, the weather turned and hammered down with plenty of thunder and fork lightning to go with it .Took cover under the brolly ,for next 2 hours , had 1 Chubb around 3lb lovely condition ,

1 Chub

River lowish and clearish
All fish on pellets. Couldn't buy a bite on the float, but a feeder in the same line produced plenty. A couple of the chub quite big, probably fives.
Barbel 5-7lb.
....and then it rained. Thunderstorms from mid-afternoon until dusk. Decidedly damp by the time we returned to the vehicles.

3 Barbel, 15 Chub

A great evening despite the pouring rain, thunder and lightening for most of it! Two large Barbel in great condition of 7.5lbs and 8.5lbs to ledgered pellet. Just what I wanted!

2 Barbel