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Washed off

2nd day of my trip, after blanking at Foy Bridge. The plan was to fish off the croy down the crease. Walked 20 minutes to find it under a foot of water.
Slow walk back down the beat to find a likely swim. Fished a swim behind a big tree creating some slower moving water. Caught 2 smallish chub and 4 barbel, 2lb, 3lb 12oz, 5lb 6oz and 8lb 1oz, all on feeder with pellet or spam as bait.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Although I am a great fisherman and I've caught all kinds of fish, this time luck was not on our side, but me and my partner had a nice day. The river was in perfect condition, was perhaps time variant with a little rain and sun. We had some bites and watched carp and trout. It was a beautiful afternoon.

We fished from dawn til dusk and on a very high river. Although the water was ripping through at a fair pace, it was nicely coloured and showed promise for a good days fishing. We fished using pellet, meat and paste using both static and rolling tactics.
It was hard going all day and despite our best efforts the barbel didn't show; having said this we had three very nice chub and a very good day on a beautiful river.
We had hoped that our fortunes would change during that magic hour just after dusk but a visit from a hunting otter put pay to that!
Having not fished the Wye before some local knowledge and advice from the bailiff would have been welcome; however, he didn't contact me until the day after we had fished.

3 Chub

A tricky day. The high river conditions cut off the lower stretch of Wyebank that I was hoping to access so I fished peg one and the river mouth from after lunch instead. Lighter float tackle and worm brought a chublet and dace a chuck, nothing on the pellet feeder until dusk when one 4lb chub made a welcome appearance.

1 Chub

Good day, really tricky conditions. But still 4 barbel caught!

4 Barbel

Due to the recent wet weather the access track along the river is virtually impassable (and a bit dangerous) at the moment even with a 4x4.
River was up and coloured managed to catch a few moderate barbel.

4 Barbel

Fished all swims,nothing caught. River flowing really fast and muddy colour. First blank on WUF waters. Thats fishing.

First time on this beat and a lovely place to spend the final day of the season, very interesting variety of water. The pools and runs were a tad high for our liking however, we caught and released some very nice trout. Found a half eaten salmon of about 4lb which an otter had enjoyed. We caught many, many leaves and had the pleasure of a floatila of red Canadian canoes with the Wild River Adventures Logo, splash their way through the beat There were only about 8 canoes but they were spread out over about 400 yds. As I had not checked the Brecon Web cam this morning, I was in no position to berate them. Perhaps a total ban of canoes on the upper Usk on the final day of the season would be a good thing so we could at least see the season out in peace as we will not be back on the water for another 5 months.

7 Trout

One eel caught and a probable barbel lost fishing the right hand bank opposite the island.

1 Other