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Two rods caught 5 brown trout - best 1.2lbs. All on dry fly.
A lot of camping going on spoils a lot of the fishing. We don't see as many fish here as we used to!

Caught one Brown Trout at 1 1/2 lb, stunning fish, caught in a quiet stretch near the end of the bottom beat. As I was there not long after the 'GreenMan' festival, the estate looked like a scene from a war movie!! Staff were very pleasant though, and the fishing is generally easy to get to, it's even possible to take your car along the top beat. I haven't fished all the beats of the Usk and Wye, however this one is going to be very hard to better. For afternoon amusement I was lucky enough to see two fighter jets practice their moves going over and around the valley
My only disappointment is that there are no beats available this week, or I'd be back!!

Spent the day fishing the Rope Pool. Had a good day with 4 hard fighting barbel upto the 8lb mark, taken on elips pellet and feeder. All fish immaculate.

Fished 3 swims between Vanstone Pool and the Rope Pool. Conditions were good with just a tinge of colour but was only saved from a blank by 2 barbel in last half hour. Swims were pretty good for access on left bank but although this fishery is said to be double bank there were no access details provided for the right bank and from what I could see only 2 fishable swims. There were quite a few salmon jumping in the Rope Pool area.

Fished in evening, 2 small brown 6-8 inches on sunken nymph. No action at all on the surface!

A strangely quiet day on what is one of our favourite lengths of the wye which has been good to us on previous visits. Only 1 barbel and 1 chub to show for our effort, the barbel coming with virtually the last cast of the day. Fortunately it was a nice fish of 9lb 7oz. Not sure why the river was so out of sorts but rudi the bailiff seemed to think a rising river with an influx of colder water might be to blame. Typical of fishing just when you start to think you've got it cracked you have a session like this. Will definately be back for another go on this excellent length though.

Hadn't been coarse fishing for a very long time (15 years or more), so decided to book a day on the Wye. I had some fantastic help from Rudi and WUF in providing plenty of advice and tips before the session. Arrived at dawn to make the most of the 'morning' potential, but it wasn't to be. I was joined by two other gents from Leeds at around 10.30 and we carried on through the day. Plenty of fish jumping, but not a sign of any interest from any barbel. That was the story for the rest of the day. I called 'time' at 6.30pm and headed home. A lovely day on the river despite not a single fish, except a chub for one of the other chaps. Saw plenty of wildlife including an over-friendly mink and the small family of ducks that decided to sit next to me all day (even with my spaniel sat next to me!). I will definitely return for another go soon......

This is the first time we have fished this beat and although we caught 12 barbel from 5lb to 8lb and 8 big chub, I would not recommend this beat if you like to rove about as the only pegs worth fishing are at the bottom end of the beat apart from one at the very top end of the beat ( a very long walk for one peg ). All fish were caught on 1 or 2 8mm halibut pellets

Lovely session at Foy Bridge. Pellet feeder in a number of different swims brought 4 Barbel and a number of chub.

This is a great stretch of river and had a really enjoyable morning Session with all 4 of us catching 2 Barbel, one of which was close to double figures. Once we had walked down to the river we turned left at first but halfway down the track the nettles and undergrowth stopped us from getting to the end of the stretch. These were above head height in places I would strongly advise good heavy duty clothing is worn if you want to attempt to get past this. All in all another beautiful stretch of The River Wye. Would Fish the stretch again.