Feedback & Reports

Fabulous day on the Wye. Hovering around 5degrees with lots of cloud cover.
Managed a Grayling of about 1lb to the net in the morning aswell as a WBT of about 1/2lb in the morning. Both taken on a PTN under a strike indicator, both within about 10 minutes of each other.
Then later in the afternoon managed another Grayling of about 1lb on a olive CDC emerger.
Fantastic day.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 lb grayling on an F fly, late afternoon . River low and clear. Cold and rainy, not the best of days but a great beat all the same.

1 Grayling

Cold and windy. Water clear and full of floating leaves. NO LDO hatch and no rise. All fish caught on nymphs. Some larger grayling to 16" from the long glide towards the bottom of the beat on dead drifted nymphs. Smaller trout and grayling from the top half of the beat. Very varied stretch of water and well maintained.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

8 x grayling 12-16 inches, Grayling Steel Blue, Red Tag, Sturdy's Fancy. Another very cold day for October, in fact minus 3 and a hard white frost when I arrived, so I went to the cafe for a second breakfast and came back when the sun had warmed things up slightly. River very low and clear. A few grayling were now rising and large dark olives in evidence after lunch so dry flies could be used. By 3 the temperature was rapidly falling again and no more surface action , so in a sense it was like a March day in reverse. What a pleasure to fish a well-maintained beat with stiles all in good order and benches overlooking every pool!

8 Grayling

I thought the oos salmon was a record grayling!

1 Salmon, 3 Grayling

Day two of a mini-break. I stayed in The Lion Hotel in Builth Wells - clean & comfortable, off street parking, good breakfast, good price. Recommend it if you are doing Upper Wye beats.
Today the temperature had dropped significantly from Thursday and it felt very cold in the gusty wind. There was plenty of action on the river with fish coming up to the dry and taking the nymph on the same duo set-up (see my 25th Oct feedback from The Rocks). Early afternoon the fish started rising to a sustained hatch of pale up-wings and for a time I switched successfully to a CDC dry.
My problem today was keeping the fish on! I lost at least half a dozen after the first grab, and like all who blame their tools, I began to curse my barbless hooks. Anyway 4 nice Wye fish came to hand, 3 sturdy 14" Grayling and a similar sized OOS WBT. All returned fit.
PS: The beat instructions ask for catch return to be left on forms to be found in glass case in carpark. I couldn't find the glass case but it could have been a "boy look"!

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

1 Trout

we fished from the lower end of the beat Harry's pocket and penalow pool we took fish on French leader and duo and drys some lovely looking out season Brown's

6 Trout, 16 Grayling

Water still slightly high but very fishable. Laid back session... mix of dry and nymph -French leader style and sedge and dredge.

8 Trout, 16 Grayling

Caught eight fish , mostly on the lower part of the beat two nymphs including two browns.Once we were on the middle part of the beat by mid afternoon the dam had released water so coloured the water and made it unfishable. Grayling to 12 inches
WUF note: Dam water is invariably clear if a little peaty, colour will have come from tributaries