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We fished the lower section and caught 3 Barbel to 9lb 12oz & 1 Chub 3lb.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

A very pleasant afternoon in lovely surroundings!

2 Trout

Fished on the bottom with different baits, tried halibut pellets, sweetcorn, luncheon meat. Caught nothing. It was a bright clear day, river was low. Enjoyed the scenery.I will come back when it gets warmer. The only thing I didn't like was going on the website finding it cost £20 a day, which was fine. Only to find a £2.50 booking fee!. I would rather them say it cost £22.50 at the start.
(WUF note: the booking fee covers any number of bookings if made on the same day, and also covers the cost of credit cards and staff)

Anyone else ever caught a 12lb Salmon on stick float and bread? Frightened the life out of me when it leaped clear of the water when I hooked it ???? Lovely days fishing, barbel on pellet, chub on bread/stick and a couple on pellet.

1 Salmon, 4 Barbel, 13 Chub

Fished downstream of the iron steps. The river was low and clear. Lost two barbel on the rocks plus plenty of tackle. Mainly small chub with two decent fish amongst them, all caught on maggot feeder.

1 Trout, 15 Chub

This was my attempt to catch my very first grayling. There were a few olives in the air around lunchtime, and a few fish rising in 2 pools upstream of the bridge and in the straight section further up. I had a few rises to my Adams but sadly either missed on the strike or they came off. So I blanked. Weather was pleasant, with just a little rain. Anyway, really nice place. Wading was fine but I felt a bit creaky climbing over the stiles (age, I'm afraid). Thanks to WUF for making this possible.

Fishing was slow. One Barbel caught at 2 pm that weighed 5 lb.

1 Barbel

Summer levels. Fish caught on pellet feeder and trotted maggot. Two of the chub around 3lb. Barbel were small but a pleasure to see. Nice afternoons fishing!

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Hard fishing and a cold biting wind! Only 2 fish between 3 of us, lots of fish moving though.

2 Trout

2 x grayling 6 inches, 9 x out of season trout 6-8 inches, dry Red Tag. Plus countless parr (below 6 inches) of both species. I don’t really know this beat properly; of two previous visits, one was during a flood of coloured water and the other was with the very pleasant owner and his family during conditions of heatwave summer drought. So, although it’s 70 miles from home, I thought I should give it at least one proper chance this autumn. As I know the wading is difficult and I wanted to cover a lot of ground, I opted to go up with just the one rod, an 8 footer made up with a dry fly. A chilly start at 3 degrees, but little fish were rising at once and the day warmed up to 14 degrees. And this was to be the problem: lots of little fish around, at least at the bottom end of the beat, so that the fly would disappear after a couple of seconds on the surface, but I struggled unsuccessfully to find a decent grayling. In fact I still don’t understand this one. I gave it a long morning and got about halfway up by a mile or so, into the woods beyond the cliffs, by which stage even the little fish seemed to have disappeared. Lots of invertebrate life under the stones under the bottom; not so much higher up which seemed almost dead. Quite possibly I would have had some better results by using nymphs, even if it slowed me down. Wading difficulty on a score of 1-10 probably rates 10: there is virtually no gravel and the bottom is all either bedrock or boulders. Having left the campsite field, you either have to wriggle along between thorn bushes and a wire fence or wade a couple of deep pools. After that, access gets easier from fields on either side if you don’t mind rolling under wire fences here and there. Otherwise, it is a most beautiful valley at this time of year, in some ways like the Irfon – but in other ways not. At one point there is a surprising bloom of ranunculus weed, sustaining a pair of unexpected swans at the moment. To summarise: this one is still rather a mystery to me. This is odd, because we are getting such good results from Llandewi upstream. There must be some adult grayling somewhere to produce all those parr. Maybe some fit young fellow would like to try from the top end of the beat and let us know how that fishes?

9 Trout, 2 Grayling