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Only fished for 4 hours due to commitments. Couple of fish showing in pool and opposite dead trees on a rising river slightly coloured. One pull on fly in Little run but no fish.

21 Barbel 5 Chub 2 Roach 3 Dace on pellet meat and corn.

2 x browns caught and released (and one lost) on a dry daddy, in 20 minutes of fishing. Reckon I could've had a few more if I'd had more time.

Unfortunately mid afternoon they got the forecast right, torrential downpour and washed off the river. The Irfon rose rapidly, coloured within 15 minutes there were logs floating past quiet an impressive rate of rise!
Managed just a couple of trout before being wiped out by the rise. Amazing that on the way home other rivers literally only 10 miles away had not been affected. Ah well try another day.

1 rainbow trout gold head nymph (returned).
1 brown trout black gnat dry fly (returned).

Made a very early start and was on the river by 5.30. Lost a fish in the Vanstone at 6.30 and missed a good take in the Maddox a bit later. 1st canoes through at 8.15 but didn't start in earnest till gone 10 and were mainly through by 3. Mostly happy to stick to far bank.
Caught a 3lb chub in the Maddox but despite trying everything couldn't get any more offers in the Maddox, Vanstone or Cornertree. Broke for lunch and in the early evening tried to suss out the upstream pools. Still hard to figure out what is what but there is some nice water and some new access points have been cut.
First run through what I think is the Island pool and I caught a 10/11lb cock fish on a size 12 cascade that had probably been in a week or 2. Very strong fish that gave me real battle. Fished on until 9 in hope of another with quite a few fish showing, but wasn't to be. Well worth the early start though.
River was still carrying a bit of colour and was the running at around a foot. The information on the web beat description would seem to be incorrect as it describes the stones in the Maddox as being exposed at 1 ft 7, however yesterday they were submerged.

I thoroughly reccomend this beat.

3 barbel & 2 chub. River at normal height. A number of Salmon showing.

River low but coloured due to recent rain.
Caught three very small graying on PTN.

Hard to know what to say... a stunning Beat, Easy wading, clear water for the best part of the day. Some small WBT seen rising but not a fish caught between 4 rods, which was a little dissappointing. But then that is why it's called fishing and not catching!! Sure to Return!

Had another great day's sport on the Holme Lacy beat. Over the course of around 8 hours fishing I caught 6 Barbel to 7.5lb and 19 chub to 4.5lb....