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This was the first time I had fished this beat. It was a real delight: secluded; beautiful; and enough interesting water to keep me occupied all day. Fine day - what wind there was came later and was mostly downstream. Various flies hatching through the day with quite a few mayfly late afternoon / early evening. Not as many fish showing as I might have hoped in the circumstances, but enough to keep me interested.

17 fish in total. Mostly smallish trout (6-8 inches) with three or four fish around 3/4lb. A few grayling too, the best just over a pound. A really good day all round, helped out by pretty straightforward journeys both ways. This is one of the nearer beats for me and I shall definitely fish it again.

Much warmer than the day before. Three nice trout to 2lb caught on small goldhead nymph. River and valley looking absolutely beautiful!

Left the river a happy fisherman,

Caught 1 nice grayling of 15 " and 4 small trout. No fish rising but some olives coming off in small numbers. I did see 2 people bait fishing at the top of the beat above the weir on the opposite side of the bank by the big house. Not sure if these people had any fishing rights associated with the house or what!

4 brown trout best 12" two retained. 3 grayling returned.

Glorious day , warm and sunny

I was determined to fish dries , my friend stuck with nymphs. He pulled out 3 Grayling and 3 Trout all around 10 -12 inch.

Depite the glorious start and intermittent north east wind kept making an un welcome appearence so aprt from the odd snatch no luck for me , until I moved up above the weir and caught 3 Grayling about 8 inch on a yellow may dun in the shade of the trees.

Another fantastic three days in stunning surroundings thanks to those nice people at the Wye and Usk Foundation.

No sign of trout, but two nice grayling. One came to a ptn, the second - close on 2 lb - to a dry fly. Fish rising to black gnats exclusively.

2 wild brown trout: 1.5lbs, 2lbs, one smaller
Size 16 Beacon Beige, Tups.
Steady hatch of medium olives and later BWO
Cool, breezy. Lovely few hours.

A very enjoyable days fishing, 6 Brown trout, best fish 14" from the pool just below the Studio. All fish taken on dry flies, Adams, Klinkammer, BWO. And it only rained for 5 minutes, lovely!

Cloudy day with intermittent rain and blustery wind. The top part of this beat is a tough one - real clambering and climbing along the left bank with lots of trees (need good roll casting here!!). Many deep pools over bedrock and not a sign of any fish. Day was not condusive to rises and we did not see any on this section. Fished all sorts of nymphs at various depths through the rills and channels but no luck. Thought that the fish were down and not really feeding. At the Wash pool where the banks open out some wading into the middle and fishing across and down with tiny wets and nymphs pulled 4 4 & 5" fish out. Moved on down the beat but water was very shallow so not easy to stay covered and not spook what few fish might be around. No rises. At the run into the Crawnon pool it looked distinctly more fishy and sure enough took two fish - one to the Pennell and the other, even though I say it myself, to a superbly presented dry fly to a 1lb fish rising behind some branches - 'just put it on that dinner plate over there without spooking the fish time.....'Nice fish and good way to finish the day. Total 6 fish - all returned.

NB about this beat - unless you are pretty agile and fit the top section from the footbridge down to the wash pool is very hard climbing and rather like an assault course. If the water is down it is not so bad because you can use the bedrock at the edges, if not then it would be climbing through trees and up and over rocks and boulders. Plus side however is that if the fish are there you are pretty well hidden and can cast (roll of course) straight to them - would be very little fishing pressure too.

Great beat. Very very cold, wet and windy - the weather did not do too much for the fishing. Still caught two trout and two grayling).