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Very windy conditions, a hard (but enjoyable) days lure fishing. Between two anglers fishing from 08:30-18:00, we caught two rainbow trout and three brown trout (two undersized), plus two perch at dusk. We used a mixture of spinners, spoons, diving lipped minnows, and soft plastic swim baits. A beautiful water, very quiet (only saw a couple of other anglers), not much rubbish (though quite a lot of discarded mono line, why do they do it!?). Two fish taken.

5 Trout, 2 Other

Fished the waggler using maggot and once the canoes had departed caught steadily throughout the day. River levels had dropped nicely from earlier in the week and I had an enjoyable days fishing catching small chub.

16 Chub

Not much in the way of bites, just a couple each. One barbel about 5lbs and 2 chub up to 3 lbs. All fish caught on meat.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

1.15pm above Rhayader: caught my first ever Atlantic Salmon at the last gasp of the season on a 12 dark waddington. Slightly coloured hen of 9-10lb est. Tough fight with a hundred yards of inaccessable rapids below me. Probably did her a favour by getting her in quick(ish). Ten minutes of revival then took off like a shot. I am a very happy fisherman this evening.

1 Salmon

Nice days fishing, river slightly up but running fairly clear. 9 graying to 12 inches and 2 trout taken. All in top condition. All fish taken on nymphs under indicator. Near all woodland parts of the beat were not possible to fish due to high vegetation!

2 Trout, 9 Grayling

Fished from about 11.00am until 18:00pm. Tried for the first two hours to catch on the float but despite a couple of bites nothing to show. Changed to feeder tactics and started to catch slowly throughout the day. All fish in absolute pristine condition. Martin managed a 9lb 6oz Barbel, a Chub 3.5lb and some Dace. I managed two Barbel, best 6.5lb and numerous Dace, two Grayling and a Brownie. Pellets, boilies, bread and maggots.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 20 Other

River up a few inches and pushing through a bit but otherwise looked good. Still, struggled to locate many fish and finished the day with three 4 inch grayling, a ten and eleven incher and an OOS brownie of eleven inches. All taken on a various heavy czech/tungsten beaded nymphs fished on point and single dropper.

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very hard days fishing. Last one for me this season and hoped to go out with a bang but not so lucky, the fish won.

3 Trout

Fished lower section of beat another great day to be on this fabulous river, conditions looked good and we were hopeful of an even better day when 2 of the Barbel were landed around lunchtime. Alas only one further Barbel and 5 Chub came in the afternoon with majority to meat hookbait.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

A good days fishing river slightly up but running fairly clear. 9 grayling and 2 trout all fish in good condition. Fish taken on nymphs under indicator.

2 Trout, 9 Grayling