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I found this impossible to fish, too overgrown for me. Water clear. Some trees down across the brook. Gave up after an hour of snagged lines. Sighted a couple of fish but could not get a fly to them.

Fished Courtfield and took the advice of Don. The going was tough and despite the calm conditions, we managed 6 barbel and 8 chub, all falling to feeder and double pellet. Most catches were prior to lunch and things dried up after then with little bites and catches. Unfortunately we collectively lost a fair amount of terminal tackle, but still a great day.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Two caught on spinner. Small fish but one much larger was missed.

Lost a good size fish in Martin's Pool first few casts with a spinner. Plenty of salmon crashing about as far as the eye could see but we couldn't get them to take. Adam Fisher was very helpful and showed us all the access points for wading and spinning. Lovely stretch of water and would like to fish it with a touch more water on.

1 Chub

Hard to find pace in water for barbel. Managed to catch just a few each on ledgered elipse pellets. Best fish of the day 8 lbs 7oz. River desperately needs additional water + may be just on end of 'spawning' due to season lateness. All fish in good condition though, with normal hard fight from Wye fish.
Pleased with the accessibility to the swims. Thanks.

10 Barbel

1 Trout

Cracking stretch of river and a lovely place to be! Plenty of nymphs of all descriptions revealed on the rocks in the river and an impressive amount of shrimp, maybe better then the Derbyshire Wye etc? 3 trout to hand up to 12", bumped off quite a few more as I was christening a new rod and still getting used to it as its fairly fast. Well that's my excuse!
Fish were moving in the tails of pools to spinner as the evening wore on, no sedge came out to play.

3 Trout

River really low. Top section of beat needs more swims to fish from lower section. Completely different lovely stretch of the river, needed 2 to 3 foot of water, gin clear. Still caught fish but hard work. Barbel up to 8lb, Chub to 5lb, bait used - corn and pellet on feeder.

24 Barbel, 15 Chub

A very pleasant day, fish a bit shy but a beautiful place to be enhanced by efforts and dedication of ghillie. All fish fell to pellets.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Mixed weather, cloud turning to drizzle in the afternoon, but 5 browns to 14" caught on wet Coch y Bonddu fished upstream, all amazingly strong hard-fighting fish. Stayed at the Cammarch Hotel and went on to fish a good evening rise on the middle Irfon beat. A further 9 trout to 16" and one 16" grayling all taken on a dry sedge.

5 Trout