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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

4 rods, complete blank not even a chub.

One of the best days fishing I've ever had, despite only 4 grayling between us. Largest around 11". 3 taken on nymph and one on the dry about midday. A few fish started to rise when the sun got on the water and a few olives started to appear. A salmon leapt in one of the pools, and a few out of season trout were caught. Easy parking and didn't see a soul all morning. Privilege to be out there.

Interesting piece of river - mouthwatering in fact. A few fish rose to dries, but most were taken on the nymph. 8 fish in total to 13". Stunning close to the day with the largest fish taken in the last pool at sunset. Bit of a walk from the car, but worth every step. Thanks WUF.

What a difference a day makes! A cold northerly and heavy showers... but it is approaching the end of October after all, and we've had a lovely few weeks so we mustn't grumble! Between us we had over 50 grayling and one or two trout with the same flies as yesterday at Abernant doing the job. Few flies but still small size 18-20 olives around off and on from mid-morning, in spite of the wind and showers. Some, albeit very few, fish rising. But they still came after emergers so are still looking up - let's hope they do so for a bit longer into November before we need to plumb the depths.