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Difficult day fishing, although conditions good, water was low and clear.caught 1 barbel at 5 1/2 pounds mid morning on halibut pellet. Fished legg meadow crib area. Tried all bates and tactics but no good, nice stretch of water, but I think it needs some colour in it.

1 Barbel

12 lbs coloured hen fish on fly.

1 Salmon

My friend caught his first barbel and I caught a river load of chub on fly.

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

No barbel today but my friend caught a small river carp. I had a lot of chub on the fly and on bread crust. This is a small, well kept productive stretch. We will be back.

20 Chub, 1 Other

Fished from 11am through to 8pm on lower beat. Largest barbel 7 1/2 pounds. Cut weed constantly coming down river throughout the day which was a bit of a problem. However still managed 7 barbel. It was another great day on the Wye and Usk, thanks again.

7 Barbel

2 x trout, 16 and 18 inches, Pearl-Bellied Hare's Ear and Hatching Olive. A wet and windy evening on Talybont, with pearly grey cloud blowing through the valley, step and casting along the shore with a team of wets. Nothing at all happened for the first hour, so that I wondered if once again I had managed to show up at exactly the wrong time. (The previous evening I had arrived on the Towy to find plenty of sewin in the river, but the water up and full of debris - never much good for night fishing although I persevered until 1 AM. And the afternoon before that I had arrived at a much-loved beat on the Monnow, to find a mink hunt in full cry up the river channel. You can put all this down to bad timing).
However, on this evening when a good fish finally moved, I laid the flies a couple of yards upwind and got a very nice brownie. The same thing happened again a few minutes later and this time it was a really superb hen fish in the peak of condition and thick in the body. I had hoped to make it a hat trick, but after another long gap leading into dusk another heavy black shape rolled onto the Kate occupying the top dropper position and neatly amputated it from the leader with barely a pluck. I must have had too much line out. A memorable evening and a lovely brace of fish.

2 Trout

Dry Tups Indisputable. River low. bank side growth very dense. This stretch is full of fish. Some late Mayfly still coming off.

2 Trout

Nice beat with good access. All fish between 5 and 7 lbs on pellet/boilie.

6 Barbel

Rain held off and had a couple of barbel, so a good day out.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 fish taken, each approx. 3/4 lb. 4 returned, ranging from 3.5 inch to 7.5 inch.

7 Trout