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The river was high and coloured and full of leaves from the high blustery wind which made for challenging fishing. My favourite spot was charging through so fast that a float was out of sight in seconds and a ledger was dragged round by leaves. I moved towards the bottom of the meadow where there was some slacker water and found some dace willing to feed. Unfortunately they were very small but I persevered in the hope that larger fish would turn up. I caught about 25 of these and a dozen Grayling, plus 1 acrobatic Trout. This may seem impressive but sadly the largest fish of the day would have failed to make 8ozs. As the water level fell by a few inches during the day, I had one more go in the faster water but only added one more small Grayling. Not too much wildlife about either but one Salmon leaped fully 4 feet clear of the water. I suspect that the larger fish remain in the main flow despite the extra speed, but presenting a bait to them was difficult. In hindsight I think a much heavier more visible float may have had better results. Something to try next time.

1 Trout, 12 Grayling, 25 Other

Nil Return.

Thank you Wye and Usk. A red letter day, caught my first Wye salmon. 31" approx 11 lb stale cock. Caught on a cascade.
The first time I have been able to fish when the conditions were perfect.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

It was near perfect, the water was droping, but getting cold and the water was ver coloured. We tried everything from hitched flys and sunray shadows to large brass tubes and of course Aly's and cascades and green Highlanders. We saw some very large fish, but caught nothing. Apart from the presence of a large Aberdeen Angus bull the beat is very accessable and well kept.

Lovely to see some water at last. Saw some running fish but none stopped to play.

All fish small. Heavy falls of leaves made it a no go with the dry fly, caught on spiders. Met a nice salmon angler.

6 Trout, 22 Grayling

First time fishing the Wye today. Turned up to Abernant at 7am by 8am I was frozen. Around 10am I saw a fish show in Lady Alexander's which I hooked and quickly lost.. Est. 10lbs.
Around 3pm I went up to the Abernant Run, a bit hairy wading but again I was into a fish, just after it had shown. Gave a fantastic account of herself, a beautiful red hen which I quickly measured at 33 inches and safely returned, est. 13lbs.
I must say I was impressed with everything from the river, the access to the beat, fantastic fly water teeming with trout and just the general beauty of the Wye valley.
Both fish hooked on a size 5 salar cascade with a silver body and fast sink tip. Looking forward to 2015 with much anticipation.
Tight Lines. P

1 Salmon, 8 Trout

A lovely day - generally quite sunny with a bit of cloud, and pretty calm apart from an intermittent pesky upstream wind, which didn't help presentation at times, but helped to get the leaf off the trees plus the bugs that come with them, so plenty of fish in the leaf and foam lanes. Water low at 5" on the Llanstephan guage. Some small olives and PWs came off in the morning then fewer in the afternoon, plus some needle flies and latterly a few caddis. Fish were rising from our somewhat late 10 a.m. start until a 6 p.m. finish when we had to drag ourselves away in spite of fish still rising. It should have been "grayling heaven" and indeed it was. Most of the grayling were in the familiar 8-10" class but four 12", two 13", one 14" and one 16", one and a half pounder, put in an appearance as well. All fish were taken off the top, mainly on small hare's ear and darkish olive emergers. We tried nymphs and spiders when the fish were not rising but failed to move anything, either in the pools, necks or the streamier water. The trout, the best of which was 12", were also taken off the top, as were a few graylets. A wonderful day all round!

4 Trout, 55 Grayling

Not the best start to the day, whilst traversing the path to the lower section I slipped and tumbled 25 feet down the bank, breaking my rod in the process!(lucky I had a spare). The water had a hint of colour and managed to catch several fish - grayling all 10 to 12" and biggest trout was about 1.75 pound - and to cap the day off, I fell over in 3 feet of water! Sometimes 1 wading stick is just not enough!

4 Trout, 13 Grayling

A couple of grayling just short of the lb mark a few trout around the half pound mark the rest were little including a couple of dace (very pretty little fish!). All were taken on size 16 nymphs!

5 Trout, 6 Grayling, 2 Other