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First trip to the upper wye, very beautiful surroundings but did not count on the over night rain which rose the river quiet quckly after my arrival. Leaves made fishing very difficult. left for home after the rain settled in again at 10.30. Will try again soon when things have settled down. Many thanks.

River level high, but still had a good day at this beautiful beat. Catch returns as follows: IM, 2 Grayling to 10". TH, 4 Grayling to 16" and 6 out of sesaon trout to 14". All fish returned in good condition, all caught on nymphs.

A stunning beat and if it was double bank fishing it might be worth the cost. As it was, we were unable to fish the upper section of the beat, including the very alluring Cadora pool, due to anglers on the other bank. I guess we could've fished opposite but we're pretty anti-social. A guy came and pegged the opposite bank for a match, and although he provided us with great entertainment when he fell in a couple of times, we shuddered at the thought of paying twenty five pounds each to fish across from a competition! We feel that fifteen to twenty pounds would be a fairer price. All this said, we loved it here. I managed to extract three good barbel and a very good chub whilst my companion broke a long blank spell with a chub. The swims were very interesting to fish and you always feel as though something might happen. It's our new favourite WUF barbel beat.

Lovely stretch of river, but no bites in the morning. Met Colin who told us of some likely places we should try.
I had 3 chub and a barbel about 5lb. All caught on pellets.
Other rod had his day made, he caught his first and second barbel ever, plus 4 chub. Also caught on pellet using maggots in the feeder.

Had about 30lb of dace, trotting maggots through the fast water. Incredible fishing, could have done with a few chub or roach to mix it up ideally - I'm not complaining though! Lovely little stretch of water, wish it was mine. Thanks WUF

First visit to this stretch, managed 3 Barbel to 10.06 which is a p.b to one rod and 1 Barbel of 7.14 to the other rod. Conditions far from perfect with bright sun all day. Fish started feeding in earnest at dusk when we had to pack up.Take plenty of leads/feeders!

Lovely day if a little windy. Had a decent knock within 2 minutes of casting out, 2 minutes later I lost a chub, it fell off. Had 2 barbel in the next couple of hours and hoped for a good days fishing. Unfortunately the fish had other ideas. Other rod lost a fish almost as soon as he hooked it, line cutting on the rocks then he had one fall off. That was it for him. I fished in several swims looking for fish but had to wait 7 hours to get any more bites! I found some chub I suspect, just below where the Lugg enters the Wye. Quite a few rattles on the rod but nothing else hooked

S.E AND N.E. end of resevoir fished. Bag limit of six Rainbows achieved by 11.30 having started fishing at 9.00a.m. on SE shore. Six fish ranging from 1.5.lb to 2.5lb taken. Caught on Agila 3 spinner. Continued fishing with an old debarbed Agila spinner on both SE and NE shores which resulted in a further catch of 19 Rainbows ranging from 1lb to 2.5lbs, plus an 11 inch Brownie. All succesfully returned for another day! Grey skies and rain with SW breeze up until 11.00 a.m then clearing skies with bright sunny intervals. A brilliant days sport in a superb location.

Following on from Simon Evan's superb WUF talk the previous evening at the Cheltenham and Gloucester branch of the Fly Dresser's Guild we just had to go fishing....
Gromain was 1ft 3" on the Llanstephan gauge - up 3" from the previous day following showers - but the river was clear and looked perfect on a bright sunny day. We dropped straight on to the riffle where the clonking grayling reside but little was showing. Despite this 2 14" grayling and a skinny out of season WBT rose to our flies. But nothing showing outside the hut or up by the rocks so down to The Heirag to fish the run in riffle. 6 10-12" grayling in farly rapid succesion came from here but then went quiet so back to the rocks - but still nothing there. Then wandered upstream towards the salmon boards at the top of the beat - to be confronted by fish rising to a large dark olive hatch. Several of these were obliging culminating in a total catch of 20 grayling to 15" and 7 WBT to 13", all on the usual parachute dries.
An excellent finale to the season despite the competition - otter, kingfisher, herons, cormorant and mergansers. Is that a full house? Many thanks for the usual highly efficient booking service.

A disappointing day, only two small chub a few dace and one grayling, despite the river looking in beautiful condition. Never mind there is always the next time! Thank you Wye and Usk Foundation