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Fished hard for 5 hours. Not a single salmon seen. Nice to catch s 1.5 lb trout.
Disappointing considering the river condition.

1 Trout

No salmon seen or caught. First time on the beat, river looked a good height at 0.55 on the Redbrook gauge but nothing seen. Not even a trout rising.
Caught a trout about 1lb

1 Trout

Everything seemed perfect for it! Fished hard, countless tip and fly changes but not a knock all day, working with the theory that the fish have pushed up in the recent high water so attempting some upper Wye beats before end of the season.

1 Chub

18lbs caught from The Maddox on Red Francis Fly

1 Salmon

7 Chub

Colour just about ok for fly. Fished down to bottom of beat from car park. No salmon but 2 shad down at Vanstpne. Didn't know they came that far up.

2 Other

Fished The Maddox (the part accessible from the left bank), The Corner Stone (twice) and The Vanstone. No salmon encountered, although saw a largish (15lb+) resident at the bottom of The Vanstone, where I unintentionally caught several chub to about 4.5 lbs.

All the above pools fished the fly well and appeared to have more than enough depth to hold salmon (Ross gauge at about 20 cm). Water temp was 58F, with the air temp comfortably above it at about 64 F. Water clarity was reasonable for the Wye and the day was largely overcast (a little sunnier later on). Encouraging conditions, I thought.

I fished a couple of small coneheads off an intermediate tip. Fishing deeper to explore the depths of the gullies might have been a better option. Will be back.

3 Chub

15 lbs salmon fly caught on stokoes shrimp.
The Vanstone pool.

1 Salmon

2 trout today

2 Trout