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Lovely summers day on one of my favourite fishing spots

10 Trout

Two tiddlers. I hoped that the water would be freshned up by recent rain, and the fish too. Turned out, it was only me! next time.....

2 Trout

This being my third visit to beat in 3 years and receiving a ‘beating’ from it last time out with only a handful of Chublets , today How Caple was back to its best!
Having chose to start in a favourite swim of mine at bottom of track I cast in at first light and within 30 seconds tip wrapped around and 4lb 4oz Chub hit the net ! Another small chub of about a pound over the next hour and it was time to move on (feeder/meat).
Moving and searching around the faster more bubbly flow I banked first 2 Barbel the biggest being about 6 (on pellet) .
Having pre baiting a few more swims I moved on and settled in one which I was advised to by Surrey father, son and family combo who kindly chatted and advised me on visit the night before .
After a very naughty two and a half hour cat nap due to ridiculous levels of excitement the night before and waking every hour to look at clock in fear it won’t go off at 4am , I finally awoke at 0312 but by lunchtime was shattered !
After a dozen canoes and sun dropped a bit I got bites regular and banked the rest of my fish , the biggest Barbel being 8lb 8oz, all on meat.
If you lightened up your approach ( not advised ) and used smaller baits I would hate to think how many chub you could catch , the beat really is thick with them and great fun they are too !
Stunning beat , one of the best , water levels not bad for time of year , thank you Wye and Usk for ANOTHER memorable day and fully expect to be back here again in 2022!

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

River freshened just a little by recent rain. One small trout on nymph (beaded GRHE) & one on dry (sedge) where only rising fish spotted. Pleasant location ignoring occasional campers' & agricultural waste.

2 Trout

hard day for middle hill court standards. overcast but warm day, plenty water on river not to pacey but the water was a dark green colour due to an algae bloom. will try again later in year i think.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Very low and greenish nice barbel to 8lb and may be thirty chub nice to meet d w from Hayward’s Heath hard work for barbel but lots of chub if u like them?

5 Barbel, 9 Chub

Grateful for the weekend rain restoring this stream to a very fishable height. Very little fly life and consequently very few fish rising. Persisted with a dry fly (Iron Blue and Adams Para, everything barbless), casting at likely fish holding spots. Managed 8 wbt, all over 8" and one handsome fish of around 15". All fish returned safely.

8 Trout

A lovely stretch of River. Caught a 7lb Barbel and two chub around 1.5 lbs in rising water on luncheon meat.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 Barbel, 23 Chub

Well having had a really good session up at Claerwen Reservoir with a buddy on the Friday ,.with Brownies smashing wets in the wave , I thought I'd carry on the motion on one of the local wild streams as I was off today also,.so plumbed for the Titley beat of the Arrow . . . .

A bit cooler thus morning when I parked up under the yew tree at eight bells. Overcast and s slightly of drizzle that did fade to nothing by half eight ! Very quiet till i got to that first picturesque glide ! Cast my small Parachute Iron Blue ,.a very gentle rise to it !! And boy did he go !!! A donkey of a fish , had me a real run around ; absolute beauty must have been fifteen inches ; maybe a bit more !! Lovely job.. . . . .

Second and third were on a flashback PTN ,.First time I've fished sub surface for ages ! But another tei good fish , both in deep pools and twelve and thirteen inches respectively . Last fish was in the weir pool on the Para Iron Blue ,.Nice splashy take too !!!

I did read that the Honddu fish grow big possibly from feeding on crayfish, well , I'm.sure the same happens here ! Brownies grow big on this beat compared to Whittern and Noke . . . .

A lovely session thus morning, only fairly quick j gig out at the weir at half eleven. Still low and that nasty brown dead algae on stones. Yukky stuff and stinking too !! I was very conscious at the lack of Brownies seen today !! Walking back along the field i normally see Brownies pin balling in the river below!! Today not one seen in that hundred and fifty yard stretch where you can walk close to the river ! Most odd . . . .

Still a lovely morning in the Titley valley!! A superb place to sneek in a few hours and net some lovely Arrow browns. . . . Happy days !! Back home and a date with a hedge trimmer I think !!!!lol . . . . . .

4 Trout