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A beautiful day on a beautiful river – challenging fishing though and only managed one wbt and one grayling of any size all day. Both on goldhead PTN.

Very hot day no surface activity despite a lot of hatches. A few grayling caught and a few trouts.

Nothing moving. No sign of any fish at all. Not a sausage. Fantastic location though and thoroughly enjoyed the day. Will go back.

3 x 8" WBT plus 1 grayling caught and released but several lost. On arrival looked like the perfect day, a lot of flies over the water, as throughout the day but few rises. At dusk the air and the water was alive with flies but no rises except for a lone salmon splashing regularly in the Erwood pool.

1 x 1lb brown trout caught and taken. Sedge. A number of rises but fish generally not taking a surface fly.

Was very hopeful given that conditions appeared pretty good and fish were being taken on nearby beats. There's some pretty nice water here and I fished hard for nearly 12 hours. However all I had to show for it was 1 fat chub of pushing 5lb, a monster grayling (never had one of those on a streamer before) that must have been better than 2lb and several trout. Shouldn't complain as 2 of those fish would have been bona fide specimens in a different situation. No salmon touched or seen however unfortunately.

Fishing beat with 3 friends. Huge expanse of water after the day before on Escley. River dropping during the day but challenging wading in parts - great care and a stick needed. Only 2 fish - 1 WBT and 1 Grayling. Hatching (and rising) sporadic and in tune with the wind..

Fished this expansive beat with 3 other rods, plenty of water for all. The Wye still quite high and crossing the river below the steps down to the beat not an option.
Nothing much happening in terms of fly life and nothing rising in the morning.

A trickle of flies from about 1.30pm got the fish moving. LDO's and Yellow Mayfly being the most obvious part of this light, mixed hatch. 3 wbt 10"-14" and one muscular out of season grayling of around 13" but very thick and deep set. All took a French Partridge off the top, 3 below the bend half way down the beat, the the 4th at the bottom of the glide at just up river from the steps.

Fish turned off at about 4pm as the temperature dipped. The water dropped by 3"-4" during the day and with an improving forecast the following week some lucky anglers are going to be in for a good time on this outstanding beat.

One brown trout, about 35cm caught at the middle planks. One brown trout 25 cm, On the flat middle of the stream. One trout taken on the flat middle of the stream, a 35cm brown trout. All fish released.

Rather disappointingly nil caught or seen