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13 x trout 6-10 inches, Grey Duster. Plenty of slightly peat-stained water coming down the Irfon, which is a much smaller river here than a few miles downstream - maximum 8 foot rod territory. On the minus side, a rather cold, autumnal day with a downstream wind. You can't expect everything to be right. I haven't fished this for a year and I was interested to see what was there, mainly due to all the work which has gone on to combat acidity in the upper Irfon. I appreciate the observations of a bloke walking upstream flicking a dry fly around and turning over the odd rock hardly have the scientific validity of an EA survey. There didn't seem to be a huge amount of invertebrate life, although certainly there were a few caddis. The trout seemed to be clustered in certain areas; not always plain to see why. The average size seems to have gone up by an inch or two since last year. Sadly, no sign of the heavy trout I spotted and failed to catch on two occasions last year, and a small fish was now on his station. Perhaps my old friend is now in (some-body else's) glass case. No grayling this time. There is a lot of water to cover here, a full 8 hours to get from the church to the top, even if you gallop through, and I didn't touch the section below the church. Finally, it's a most beautiful walk up this valley with its water falls. It was Mark Twain who complained that golf is nothing but a good walk spoiled (sorry Seth, but he did). I am sure he would never have said it about fishing."

13 x trout 6-10 inches, Grey Duster. Plenty of slightly peat-stained water coming down the Irfon, which is a much smaller river here than a few miles downstream - maximum 8 foot rod territory. On the minus side, a rather cold, autumnal day with a downstream wind. You can't expect everything to be right. I haven't fished this for a year and I was interested to see what was there, mainly due to all the work which has gone on to combat acidity in the upper Irfon. I appreciate the observations of a bloke walking upstream flicking a dry fly around and turning over the odd rock hardly have the scientific validity of an EA survey. There didn't seem to be a huge amount of invertebrate life, although certainly there were a few caddis. The trout seemed to be clustered in certain areas; not always plain to see why. The average size seems to have gone up by an inch or two since last year. Sadly, no sign of the heavy trout I spotted and failed to catch on two occasions last year, and a small fish was now on his station. Perhaps my old friend is now in (some-body else's) glass case. No grayling this time. There is a lot of water to cover here, a full 8 hours to get from the church to the top, even if you gallop through, and I didn't touch the section below the church. Finally, it's a most beautiful walk up this valley with its water falls. It was Mark Twain who complained that golf is nothing but a good walk spoiled (sorry Seth, but he did). I am sure he would never have said it about fishing.

I arrived at 08:30 and started fishing about 09:30 at the bottom of beat. The river was down about 8 inches from the last time I fished here at the end of June. The flow was still strong and the conditions looked excellent. I feeder fished pellet into the middle of the river into fast water and had bites straight away. My friend RH arrived about 10am and right on cue my rod tip hooped over and I was into the first barbel of the session which, at 6lb 6oz, was my biggest from the Wye. Keen to get started RH scurried off to his chosen swim just up the bank on the bottom crib and was into a chub within seconds of his first cast hitting the bottom. He used similar tactics to myself and had a total of around 10 smallish chub and barbel. We both suffered a blank period with no bites whatsoever from around 12:00 - 16:30. I switched to luncheon meat around 5pm and had an eel of about 1.5lbs. The action picked up later in the early evening when I had a new personal best barbel of 8lb 12.5oz followed immediately by another of 6lb 8oz, both to pellet. Another excellent day's fishing and I can't wait to come back and bring my dad here!!

Fished from 2pm with no luck - at about 8-30pm the action started and I ended with 2 barbel and 4 decent chub in the next hour. Conditions poor - very low with lots of weed coming down.

7 chub 2.5lb to 3.75lb, 1 barbel 4lb. A very enjoyable day bringing back fond memories of my youth. The chub were caught on luncheon meat and bread, and the barbel was taken on sweetcorn. A big thank you to Ian Boney for suggesting such a good swim. I shall be back!

Fished N bank from morning to mid afternoon with brisk NW breeze and cool air temp. Blank for both rods. Moved across to S bank for half an hour mid afternoon. One 1.5 lb rainbow - kept. A disappointing day in a brilliant location.

The early morning rain gave way to too much wind so fly fishing was out. We had better success spinning.

My son and I caught two brown trout, one was returned as it was just over the maximum size, my son's first fish was taken, 1.3lb. Both were taken on tobys. We hooked but failed to play four others.


Very dissapointed that the walkways to the banks for fly fishing are not kept in good order and expensive water should keep such routes clear.

As it was our first trip to the reservoir, by mistake we walked around the entire shoreline, won't do that again!

Did not fish 1/8/11 as away for week.

River low and gin clear on 8th making for very hard fishing. Saw one salmon late on at rock but fished for trout throughout. John Phillips also fished. I landed 5 to half pound and John landed 7, biggest three quarters.

Some taken on dry pheasant tail spider size 14 and size 16 olive emerger. Some larger trout active late on but none came to the fly. John had same experience. Need some rain as down to 2 inches today (Friday)

Had the beat booked for three days with SE but really only fished for the first two. Had run out of steam by Wednesday as the fishing was not easy. So was fairly pleased with 11 barbel including 2 over 8lb and one just over 9lb in what were not ideal conditions, low water, very weedy and mostly sunny. Hence most fish came out in the evenings.

A lovely beat, particularly the bottom half. Sadly only managed two 6" trout. A good fly hatch and would probably fared betterif we'd been able to stay till the end of the evening.