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Quite a lengthy report but I hope useful. Our day consisted of the good, the unbelievably bad and the very good. First of all, the beat is beautiful, the service from WUF excellent and the owner, Don, is friendly and helpful. We arrived early at 6.00am and enjoyed a few peaceful hours in this lovely setting, joined at about 7.00am by another angler, also a very nice guy, and his young son.
Then at 10.00am the first batch of canoes came down. From then on we never had a moment of peace and quiet. Some canoeists are decent people who understand the river etiquette but sadly a high proportion are loud-mouthed, ill-mannered yobs. They seem to have no appreciation of their surroundings and their idea of enjoyment is to drink lager and yell and swear at each other and anyone on the bank. They are quite intolerable, although I daresay they represent lots of money to the canoe operators who clearly don't care how they behave on the water. We left to get some lunch and when we returned there were 3 women in my swim holding some sort of prize presentation with a group of drunk canoeists. You cannot reason with these people so we left the fishery.
We decided to stay away until evening and returned at about 6.00pm. No canoes, peace and quiet and the barbel feeding well. Using groundbait/pellet feeder with halibut boilies we caught a fine stamp of fish between 7lbs and 9lbs as well as a few chub, so a good ending to the day. Such a pity that the natural beauty and tranquility has to be wrecked by people who don't appreciate it.

After blanking on the Dore the day before, I was hopeful for the Pandy Honddu, but it was not to be for me.
Pretty easy wading (glad for studs), lots of tempting pools and relatively cast-able in the lower section (I gave up after 3 or 4 fields). I don't think I saw any rises all day and don't think I had any rises to my dries or takes on the klink'n'dink. Maybe it is the time of year (though good flows), probably it is my skills (or lack..).

Frustrating again - I think I need to book a guided day to see how to open up this beautiful stretch (really, what a stunner!).

One of those hard-work days - nothing hatching, nothing rising. Managed to coax out four trout, all small, to dry fly. Lost two.

Casted over showing fish but she was not interested in selection of my flies. Water at 11inch on the gauge, temp 15C. Good evening rise - 4 WBT and 3 Grayling up to 12" in 30min small rod session. Thank you.

Rod 1, 15 + Chub to 5lb on Meat, most in hectic 45 minutes in the evning. Rod 2, 4 Barbel best 8lb 5oz, several Chub best over 3lbs all on boilies.

34 Barbel, 22 Chub on pellet corn and bread. Caught fish all over the beat with the main of the Barbel coming from the top field.

One fish of about 12 inch was caught on hares ear nymph. That was the only fish we got close encounter in the day and it was returned safely. The day was beautiful and the water was crystal clear. We could see fish but it meant they could see us too. Tough fishing.

Nil Return. One fish hooked on a partridge and orange but lost after 10 seconds.

Nil Return. One fish hooked on a partridge and orange but lost after 10 seconds.

This year's annual jaunt to the Wye proved to be the best yet. On arrival the river looked great, a bit of colour, no debris floating down the river, the floods must have got rid of a lot of the weed and the bankside was the most accessible in the time I have been coming here. The latter appears to be the reult of some hard work by the WUF. The day started brilliantly with 4 fish in my first 5 casts including a hat trick then it died as the canoeists appeared. Around 4 I had another hat trick and picked up a couple of fish later. My best day on the Wye to date. In total 3 Barbel 5,6 and 6.5 lbs and 5 Chub to 3lb - all very lean so I guess they had been spawning.