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Blank. 1 salmon seen, 1 trout lost. Fished 2 hours up to 9pm.

This is one of the passport beats closest to my family cottage in the area so particularly convenient for an evening session.
Parking is in the village, adjacent to the excellent village shop.
Easy access via riverside path and in general easy wading but be careful if river is high.
The top section of the beat beyond the salmon pool is worth the effort but does involve more intrepid yomp through riverside undergrowth and boulders - note area to avoid marked red on the map.
We fished the evening session from 1730 onwards, river was relatively high so started with wets and streamers but to no success, later moved downstream and had a magical hour on the last section casting to rising fish just off the opposite bank - this took some wading to mid river (waist high so wading stick useful) and not for faint hearted if water high but usually quite do-able. My fishing companion took a beautiful 2lb WBT on a parachute Adams which he was very pleased with and was a pleasure to witness. I missed two other takes in the same place on the flats in the lower section of the beat.

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Trout on salmon gear. Only fished evening. The trout rising above the bridge at 8.30pm were mesmerizing and big. Constant rises in the same places through out the pool

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Morning conditions difficult with light rain clearing towards midday. The river was coloured and a little higher than usual due to recent rain. One brown trout (~1.25 lb) taken on the retrieve to a small olive nymph just below the first weir upstream of the town. A second brown (~1.5 lb) taken at the top of the stretch, late afternoon on a dry grannom variant.
Other notable sightings, two foxes drinking at the rivers edge on the opposite bank, unfortunately they were swiftly followed by a large mink to the same spot!
A lovely days fishing, although the banks are very overgrown, compared to when I used to fish this stretch some years ago, making the river inaccessible in a lot of sections at the upper end of the town water.

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Is as much as one tenth of the shoreline of Talybont Reservoir currently accessible to anglers? Perhaps Welsh Water is too busy ladling sewage into the Usk (more than 1,300 releases in 2025 alone, online claim) to be able to address this.

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