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Another fabulous day at Whitney Court. River well up but peaking in mid-afternoon. More than 20 chub to about 5.5lb and two really good barbel, all on paste bait, touch legering. The biggest barbel had a growth on it's head that looked like a pellet - should we be concerned?

This was the first time me and my partner had fished the Wye and we weren't to be disappointed. After lots of overnight rain the river had risen but was running off nicely by the morning. Within the first 45 minutes we caught a barbel of 6lbs and this was followed throughout the morning by a further 6 barbel from 6lb-8lbs. All were caught on groundbait feeder & boillie. However from 2pm it went very quiet and with only 1 lost fish between the 2 rods. All in all a brilliant day set in amazing surroundings with an array of wildlife. We were looking forward to returning the following day. Many thanks to WUF!

Difficult day, rising and coloured with lots of debris coming down. 3 chub to about 4lb and two barbel 5lb and a good 8lb, lovely clean fish. Feeder and pellet, nothing on meat at all. Chublets plucking at boillies. Back again in a couple of weeks.

50 plus dace and small chub to 1.5 pounds, plus a few grayling which were nice to see and a couple of small out of season trout. A delightful sunny morning, roaming around and trotting maggots. As my old mother used to grumble: "he spent most of his time as a boy watching a float instead of doing his home work." And it seems nothing much changed! After lunch, however, the water began to rise and colour, the fish switched off and heavy rain arrived. Clumps of silkweed and duckweed, leaves and logs all drifting downstream; at last the Lugg has something like a flood!

Strong flow on the river, near 7 on the gauge at Ddol Farm. Caught just 2 1/2lb trout (returned). No sign of the grayling that I have caught here in the past from the pools by the parking area. Worth remembering that 8 on Ddol guage is fishable at Clochfaen but a bit too high for Rhayader and below. Heavy rain drove me away by afternoon. I have caught a number of 2lb grayling this year, all on a floating fly but they inhabit different runs and pools this year. Also, I never catch any small grayling nothing smaller than 1/2 lb - does this reflect on stocks as a whole? On the Wlesh Dee there are plenty of small fish. Also I would love aome advice on deep nymph methods. Tight lines to all.

Fished the section from bottom of the beat to the road bridge. River high and very coloured, further rain on the day meant it did not clear. Caught and returned 5 out of season brownies, not a sign of any grayling. All on gold ribbed or sparkle nymphs. Some of the pools were very deep so a bit of a scramble in places!!

With the river over 4ft above normal summer level swim choice was critical today. After trying 3 different areas I finally got it right and 7 barbel to 7 1/2 lb were tricked into taking my paste wraped pellet hook baits. All fish taken after 2 pm water temp now very cold might be worth going all out for the chub next trip. Thanks to Colin for advise and W&U as allways.

Water pushing through with weed, leaves twigs constantly catching the lines. Found a couple of slack spots close in and managed to winkle out 5 barbel between us, also lost a couple. Barbel 6lb to 8lb.

The EA gauge showed just under 1 metre but this meant the river was too high and fast for worthwhile fishing. The forecast was good so decided to stick it out and hope that the level might fall. Managed to winkle out 2 small brownies before a torrential rainstorm sent me scurrying back to the car. Lesson learnt.

5 barbel to low 9lb's and 3 chub, one of which was a cracking specimen, a tick under 6lb. All on pellet.
couple of things to mention: had an otter going after fish (and catching from what I could see) in several swims which I hope does not signal predation of the stock in the area, and had ''words'' with anglers on the opposite bank who were casting across the river into several of the fishable(prepared) swims on our bank that we expected to be able to fish. Not the first time its happened. Needs sorting out with whoever runs fishery on the opposite bank.