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Overnight rain put a nice tinge of colour into the river,and the fish enjoyed it as well! Had 4 fish in the first 6 casts and I`ve never even been here before! Spent quite a bit of the day exploring the beat and sheltering from the torrential rain all afternoon. Had 9 grayling 10-14 inch and 9 trout to 9 inches, all on klink and dink. Had to give up ealier than wanted due to the stream at the top of the beat pouring in very dirty water and colouring up my side of the river!

9 Trout, 9 Grayling

A dark, misty and quite breezy day and cooler than of late, at 15 degrees. Very little fly apart from a few small afternoon olives and consequently, with little leaf litter and associated bugs, very few rising fish. Fished duo most of the day and did a bit of bugging as well (but to no avail). Two grayling and one trout (12") taken on small tung-head GRHE and PT nymphs and the rest of the fish, bar one, taken on HE emergers - the other on a small dark olive Duck's Dun. Most of the fish taken on the emergers were non-risers. Two grayling of 14" but the rest mainly around 10". Very hard fishing for sure. Bring on the rain and leaf fall to liven things up a bit!

3 Trout, 11 Grayling

Hard work on a low and clear river. Fish taken on spiders/emergers in the morning when there were a few fish rising. Cold wind pm soon put paid to that.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

River low overcast and dull great warm September day second time here had two super Brown Trout, best 1 pound 8, and second similar. One fish taken other returned. Scruffy little brown flies work here, fished on floating line.
Thanks for a well organised day.

2 Trout

3 x trout and 4 x grayling all caught on the dry fly, sadly none of the fish were of any size but it was still a pleasure to be out on this stretch of the Wye. All fish were returned to grow on to be enjoyed by others. Very little fly life hatching throughout the day but an olive and green klinkhammer did the trick.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

11 x grayling 12-16 inches, 4 x trout 6-12 inches. Rather odd weather, today, beginning with - was it very thick condensing mist or a thin drizzle? - going on to be hot and sticky during the afternoon, followed by a cold wind and then finally mist again rolling down from the Black Mountains. I fished during the warm afternoon and found almost nothing rising naturally, but a suitable artificial seemed to attract some nice grayling up to the surface for a while until the cold wind brought the action to a halt by late afternoon. Grey Duster and Grayling Steel Blue in sizes 16 and 18 were the patterns which did best.

4 Trout, 11 Grayling

A difficult day on what is usually a far more predictable beat at this time of year. Little fly life and few fish rising, All fish taken on dry. A beginners session with the salmon road but as no silver tourists seen to offer encouragement stuck to trouting!
2 other rods coming off the water when we arrived may not have helped....

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Day 3 of trip for JD and JE. Joined by MH from Surrey. Ty Newydd proved difficult fish today with little hatch and little showing. Water quite down. JE tactics of nymphing proved fruitful. Trout all over 10" to best at 16". Grayling to 16". Planned to fish later than usual but low cloud cover and temperature inversion seemed to send fish down deep.

7 Trout, 3 Grayling

Wash off due to heavy rain, but we didn't have to worry as we received an excellent response from the Wye and Usk team when we booked again at a later date.

Arrived late after a horrendous journey on the M4 east of the bridge. Held up in Wales by two abnormal loads meeting head to head on a narrow road-each with its tail back behind. Found wet sqally conditions and managed one pull on GRHE and one rise to a klinkhammer. After 18 months off rivers I was too rusty to connect.