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Just fished the channels. Trout to a lb and grayling over 2lb. Dries and small nymphs

6 Trout, 12 Grayling

A tough day on a low river. Perseverance payed off with a 7 1/2 lb barbel on a Halibut Marine pellet from the last cast of the day.

1 Barbel

Arrived at 7:20 due to heavy traffic on journey from Cornwall.
Had a chub first cast 4lb followed by 2 barbel 7:3 and 8:6
Lost 2 more barbel as I was very undergunned for the dark evening. Only had a small torch. Lesson learned

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

For 2 of us beginners this was our first encounter with genuinely wild fish. Many thanks to Lyn Davies for excellent and patient guiding!

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Such an amazing place, and so beautiful. Epic upper Usk. Shallows, deep gullies, waterfalls… it’s got it all. Amazing rock formations too. River was low, but it did have a good bit of flow after yesterday’s rain (no rain for the previous two weeks or so). Clear water, so fish easily spooked. Mixed conditions, heavily overcast most of the day, rain showers and maybe 10 minutes of sun!

Odd glare off the surface was hard to contend with. Polarised glasses helped, but it was so dark on occasions that they became useless. Two fish caught, one more lost just before the net. Decent size fish, probably 14” approx, and thick. Klinkhammer indicator with nymph below, all taken on nymph.

2 Trout

2nd consecutive day on the beat so we pretty knew what to expect. 3 nice chub around 4lb during the day. Barbel only showing interest well into the evening. 3 in quick succession to 8lb 2oz. on pellet.

7 Barbel

This was our first visit to Foy Bridge and although the river was running low we had an excellent day at a lovely spot. We started around 9am and fished the 2 swims at the end of the left hand bank. 1 of us trotted pellets and caught 8 chub of varying size and the other feeder with meat, catching 4 small barbel and 6 chub. About mid morning my friend hooked into a good fish which after a long fight snapped his rod and eventually his line (10lb).
As the day went on we moved up towards the bridge and the action quietened down. I moved to the right hand bank and the fish came back as the evening arrived, bringing 2 barbel (7lb 4oz and 7lb) along with a couple of chub around 4/5lb.
Would certainly look to return.

7 Barbel, 22 Chub

So plenty of rain the day before had freshened up the river and the runs I had fished two days earlier were moving faster. Fished entirely the wrong part of the day - mid morning until 4pm as I was tired in the morning after fishing Doldowlod the day before and had to travel home. The grayling were on the euro set up and lost 3 more but the amount of interest was low compared to two days earlier. Didn’t really fancy the tricky wading of the run at the top of the beat so had a go at prospecting with a sculpin pattern on the remainder of the deeper sections lower down. Pretty sure I had a couple of plucks but no hook ups. Fish were rising throughout the day and several decent sized trout cleared the water leaping, all of course in the most ridiculously inaccessible areas

3 Grayling

The other were eels, very difficult day in low river conditions.

1 Barbel, 2 Other