Feedback & Reports

This beat was fished by two members of the Grayling Society on this occasion. The river was running clear at 12C and was well up owing to compensation water from the Elan Reservoirs.

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

River was in spate about 2 feet higher than previous day etc, due to the rains etc no fish taken in the morning session as pools etc were frothed up and detritus around etc. Lovely morning tho, will return to your wonderful river. Barrie Cooper

On a day that went from dead still to increasingly very windy and with the Ddoll Farm guage at 10", there were essentially no insects and no rises all day. One female adult and four large young goosanders kept me company for much of the first half of the day, leading the way as I made my way up the beat. Tungsten beads were therefore the order of the day (I had another heavy metal in mind for those birds!) and, with the depths duly dredged, eight grayling of 12-16" (the best 1.5lb) and two trout of 10-12", obliged. Half as many grayling again were long-distance released. A 3.5mm tunghead flashback PTN variant, and a smaller Duracell nymph on the dropper, did the bizz on the day. Oh for some surface activity again.

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

A warm day with some rain and sunny spells, river running very clear. As the wading was described as "tricky" I persuaded my friend Mike to accompany me on this one, we're both beginners but I've been out more than he has.
For the record we found that access on the top of the beat was better from the right hand bank, whereas the lower from the left. The lower beat is easier to wade, and the top difficult with big slippery rocks.
On arrival the river was running very clear, I can't comment on it's level as this was my first time to the upper Wye. We started off nymphing using ptn and grhe but apart from one grayling, we were struggling. All the likely gullies coming up blank. Then I put on a czech nymph on the point and a red bloodworm fly on a dropper, that did the trick! I guess I didn't have enough weight on before to get the files down in time. After that I caught steadily from gullies, fast runs and tails of pools. There was huge hatch at around 7pm but I saw only one fish taking under a tree, I managed to cover him and he took it immediately a good sized fish too. All of the grayling were of a good size ranging from 1.5lb to nearly 2, the trout about 9".
Sadly Mike blanked despite me giving him the choice of where to fish, I even caught fish from areas he had already tried. I guess all the practice I'm putting in is paying off, might have to start calling myself a novice :)

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Tenkara Day, accompanied by Roger Smith, this return is for me only, the other anglers will submit their own returns. Started fishing in light rain about 12.00pm, finished at 4pm in full rain. River remained clear and was not high.
Grayling were in superb condition and both were good sized - filled my scoop net, weighed approx 1.5lbs. Both took a size 12 barbless partridge and orange.

2 Grayling

Myself and three friends attended a Tenkara fishing experience based at Caer Beris Manor Hotel. We all enjoyed our weekend immensely and will probably book it again next year. Although I only had one fish to hand I had several long distance releases!

1 Grayling

First time I have fished this stretch of the Wye. Overcast, fished for a couple of hours.
No Trout caught but 8 Graying landed, all returned. Will come back next year.

8 Grayling

5 Trout

On this day we started a bit later as planned and met with a local guide to give us some guidance (since one of us was a true 'beginner') at the footbridge parking area. After making acquaintance, we decided to move to the lower beat parking and to start fishing upstream, especially because the wading just behind the food bridge is very difficult.
We really got going when it was already 11.15. No much fish activity we could see and I started nymphing. Some half mile more upstream I saw a nice channel and there was frequently salmon activity. It looked very promising but I was on the wrong bank of this channel and it took me more than 20 minutes to get at the other bank at a good position to wade it.
Arriving there, I noticed some surface activity and I put on a dry, hook size 18, light color "in suface" fly (parachute type, and also small CDC flies). I managed to catch 7 grayling, one around 40cm, one around 25cm, the others around 30cm. I stayed there till dusk (16.00), because surface activity was still there.
My companion with the guide took 4 grayling, one around 43cm the other under 30cm, two on dries, and two on a wet fly.
Great day, lovely beat.

11 Grayling

Good water, level rises after rain. No surface activity, sunny, windless. Hard to find a fish all day long, one hour before dusk fish were more active, saw a few salmon jumping.
Regards

2 Trout, 1 Grayling