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Beautiful stretch of water: lots of fly life. Level low and rises minimal (despite fly life). Caught trout on a ptn. Connected with one more. Young cattle were in the river but we were able to Usher them away. Guided by Justin Connolly who is a thoroughly nice guy as well as being an excellent guide.

1 Trout

8 Trout, 4 Grayling

Blustery day with difficult conditions but nice to be out and about , very low water with bouncing through pools that looked fishy for the odd salmon that maybe holding in the deeper pools .
Seems like Mr Otter found one though .. One trout had a lot of lice on .

Lost my trout net on the beat somewhere .. I know three anglers are fishing that beat today , maybe it will be found , if so happy to pay the postage for the return of it .. Thanks

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Caught between 14:30 and 1500 at ///relieves.noticing.organisms. Grayling 11” and 6”. . Trout 9”. All returned.
Very warm day 29deg. Clear sky.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout

two trout escaped one especially late and one shad that said a great beat wiil return

The return – on a lovely soft day with occasional showers. We parked at the top this time but walked down to the bottom during the day, braving the bullocks en route. There were sporadic hatches throughout the day to get the fish looking up. Mayflies, yellow may duns, sedges and olives, which were largely what the fish were taking.

34 fish to hand with another dozen lost, all on parachute dry flies, constitutes one of the best days fishing we have had on the Wye and all safely returned. A dozen more came off. The majority were trout – best one 20 inches - but the grayling are getting warmed up too for the start of their season. Bad days are needed to put good ones in context and this was certainly good… with otters and salmon for company, what could be better? Also what looked like spawning activity in the shallows – shad perhaps?

Knotweed location sent on email. Thanks for excellent fishing.

20 Trout, 14 Grayling

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

5 OOS Shad- all returned with the Chub and trout. 5 trout got off and 7 more Shad. Lovely day!

1 Trout, 1 Chub, 5 Other

Fairly clear and warm sun from when I started at 10am, thick cloud for an hour or so in the mid afternoon then clear in the eveneng. The river was low and flowing very slowly. No hatch all day and almost no fly life on the water, I could count the number of upwings I saw all day on the fingers of both hands. No surface activity aside from a lot of rolling and bubbling in the flats just up from the waterworks. I cast to them for a while with no luck until my dry fly became waterlogged and, as I stripped it back under the surface it was taken by what turned out to be a chub of about 1 1/2 pounds. When I climbed up onto the bank for a better angle I could see that all the activity was caused by chub, some of which looked quite large. No joy through most of the rest of the beat where I tried dry flies, spiders and heavily weighted nymphs. The very top end of the beat is lovely streamy water and prospecting over the shin and occasionally knee-deep water with a dry fly produced an 8" grayling and perhaps a dozen splashy rises from tiny fish. Only a few stayed on more than a second and were all fingerlings, mostly grayling, one trout.

I saw a large salmon moving up through Capel catch towards the rapids. It was moving in a curious way, almost swinging like a pendulum as it ascended, so showing one flank then the other. I've not seen this before (to be fair, not seen that many salmon...) so not sure if it's normal?

Six canoes came past me at Llangoed pool. I told them of the agreement but they wouldn't get out and continued down. I saw two more and a swimmer go in at New Garden when I was just above the Orchard but assumed they came from the house there and were just pottering around on the long flat stretch.

I should also mention that I went for a walk the day before along the river and saw two canoes going in from the left bank directly opposite the hut at the bottom of the Ty Newydd beat. I spoke to them and they got back out again but the path down from the parking spot on that side of the river is really very well maintained and perfect for canoeists, I can see why they think it's ok to launch there. I know it's impossible to make everyone aware of the rules or to make them follow them, but I wonder if a few signs on the most easily accessed launch points might be helpful?

1 Grayling, 1 Chub