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Sadly no barbel but had 10-15 small chub (< half lb) on maggot feeder. Tried meat and pellet presented in various ways but to no avail.

River seemed to have risen but was still clear if a bit 'big'. 8 grayling caught in the margins - all in the 1/2lb mark.

Excellent fishery and an excellent day was had. Fished pellets with cage feeder. I had 14 barbel and 2 chub and R had 5 barbel. Lovely weather and great surroundings

River was low and clear but my son and his friend both managed to catch personal best barbel of 8lb 3oz and 8lb 9oz respectively. My son also had a pb chub of 4lb 9oz. They also caught 2 more barbel around 6lbs. They caught all the fish on paste. I did not fish due to looking after two very inexperienced anglers but they returned home very happy. One of them had never caught a barbel before so I was pleased for him. Many thanks Wye Usk Foundation.

Had an excellent day out on the Wye today - between 3 of us we had 21 barbel, 5 chub and an eel!!! Will be back soon.

9 x grayling 6 - 18 inches; 3 x out of season trout 6 - 10 inches. A mild dry fly day with plenty of fly life and virtually no colour or height on the river despite recent rain. Several really nice grayling. Most on an Olive Klinkhammer and a couple with spiders.

22nd 2 brown trout caught and released on the Channel beat both about 8 inches. Some larger fish seen including 1 possible salmon in excess of 8lb estimated.

23rd river levels up and heavily coloured no fish seen.

Signposting for Ystrad beat is all over the place and appears to route alongside the farm house. Unable to find any other route to river. Asked permission from house owner before crossing.

4 grayling up to 14.5 inches and a trout.

After a lot of rain overnight, the river had a good flow and was slightly coloured. I fished throughout most of the day in torrential rain, but stuck with it and was rewarded with a great day of fishing. Using tungsten beaded PTN and GRHE (size 16's & 14's), I caught 18 grayling (size range 27-46 cms, with 5 fish over 44 cms)and numerous sprats. I found fish in all parts of the river, but they seemed to prefer runs that were 2 - 3 feet deep with a moderate flow. It is worth staying until dusk, as the larger fish were caught in the last two hours, whereas the morning and early afternoon seemed only to produce sprats. All fish were returned.

River had a good colour and some additional water - tricky to be sure as I hadn't seen it before the rain. Temperature of the river also unknown as my thermometer was broken. Over the two days there was plenty of rain but this didn't seem to significantly add to the river level. There was a lot of debris coming down (leaves, weed, branches, small trees, the Marie Celeste etc) making the river tricky to fish. A good swim choice was one that had a combination of flat gravel (no rocks) on a crease, this meant that the fishing was bearable - avoiding most of the debris in the main flow and preventing constant snagging of hook points on the rocks - leading to regular hook replacement. On both days I spent a good hour or more searching for right areas to fish. I caught barbel on both days from completely different areas - in total 9 barbel to 8lbs 10z (3 over 8 lbs).

The middle part of the day was slow, but it proved well worth returning to swims that have been previously baited in the late afternoon, as they produced fish first cast.
This also seems to hold true for other stetches at the moment; on the 24th Oct I moved upstream of Ross (much less colour in the river upstream of
Monmouth) and caught another 9 barbel to 8lbs 12oz, but action was slow until 4pm - then it was totally manic for about two and half hours.