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Not impressed at all with this beat, heavily overgrown access above first weir not good and very overgrown elsewhere. What fish were rising I could not get near due to overhanging branches and vegetation.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

Not a sign of a trout, which was most surprising as I had had good sport the previous day on a private beat just a few yards lower. The only fish I caught were five salmon parr.

Fishing was hard, water level was dropping all day. Fish didn't come till late in the day.

3 Barbel, 10 Chub

River coloured and with good flow at the top of the beat. Small party of Goosanders ( 4 or 5 ) on the water below the wall of Weir gardens when we arrived at about 07.45. Water looked perfect but we couldn't find the barbel and they didn't find us. Fished with feeders and ground bait plus variety of pellets for hook bait including Hinders blitzed elipse. Rod 1 (mine!) blanked, rod 2 caught 3 chub during late afternoon and with the last cast about 19.10 caught a 4lb barbel. Hard work but in a great stretch of water!

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Nil return.

Day 3 of trip for JD and JE. Joined by MH from Surrey. Ty Newydd proved difficult fish today with little hatch and little showing. Water quite down. JE tactics of nymphing proved fruitful. Trout all over 10" to best at 16". Grayling to 16". Planned to fish later than usual but low cloud cover and temperature inversion seemed to send fish down deep.

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

No salmon caught. Fished with the fly all day, river looked good. Could have been a bit higher though.

1 wild brown trout approx 6 inches caught on size 18 Adams - returned. Missed several others. Water very low. Lovely spot, great to see kingfishers.

1 Trout

3 of us fished hard for little return - only 1 small trout to hand.

1 Trout

Arrived at 1pm and fished until 8pm. We managed to get 8 bites but landed only 3 fish. Quite a snaggy swim right at the top of Leggs Meadow. Cracking bit of river and we caught three nice barbel with biggest at 9lbs 7ozs.

3 Barbel