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Another wonderful day on the Wye. No water blazing hot sunshine. The river was in perfect condition to use a switch rod. Great practice. Fished for grayling in the afternoon. A big thanks to whoever rehung the bottom gate.

3 Grayling

Incredible morning on the river today. Arrived at 08:00 and could see no rising fish so started by French nymphing and caught 6 trout, all around 6" so decided to try fishing the Duo and took a few fish on the dropper before the fish started favouring the dry fly so i switched to dry fly only (Size 16 Oppo) and the action really took off. Caught a couple of nice trout but they were mainly no bigger then 8", the grayling however were all sizeable fish, one around 14", which put up a strong fight. For every fish i hooked i missed at least 2 (too eager to strike). Unfortunately whilst pulling in a fish I waded into a large bolder and took a dunk (and lost the fish!) so had to call it a day at 13:00. Exceptionally pretty setting with no road noise or none fishers using the river.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

Again, what a privilege to be able to fish such a piece of water. Thank you

I really thought that some of the shallow runs looked idea for dry fly but alas there was a cold wind from the East and nothing much hatching. I took a few small brown trout on dry fly but in the end switched to Euro-nymphing with immediately improved results. A lot of small brown trout, the biggest no more than 12" and a good number of moderate grayling, the best probably about a pound. I worked really hard for those fish and it was most rewarding to get the success I did on a pretty dull day. Majority of fish on a black and orange perdigon nymph,# 18, or a silver bead perdigon # 14, a few fish on olive dry fly. Very few fish came from the "Flats" and most were in the deeper and faster runs..

30 Trout, 20 Grayling

8 Trout, 5 Grayling

4 Trout

Tough day. All small fish.

4 Trout

Water low but coloured. 1 trout 7 inches, 1 out of season grayling 14 inches

1 Trout

Heavy cloud and light rain in the morning, with slight breeze. A good hatch of yellow mayfly, plus a few mayfly. Conditions good until 11:30, and then the sun came out and everything went quiet. Only morning fished. 10 trout and one grayling. Upwing imitations used (paradun with CDC). Tried nymphs but caught only parr, so stopped using this method. Lovely beat.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 x trout 10-14 inches, Hair Wing Sedge

7 Trout

Sunny day. Very muddy water All caught on nymphs

3 Trout, 1 Grayling