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Another great day booked through the Foundation, 3 trout rods and 1 salmon.

My first day back on the Wye in a couple of years was rewarded with 8 grayling ranging from 1/2 pound to a pound and a 1/2 pound brown trout taken on selection of nymphs, all returned.

Paul also had a good day with grayling the best of his 5 was about a pound and half, also 5 brown trout to around a pound as well.

Sam's first time out was successful with a nice grayling.

Paul saw one Salmon leap but unfortunately Matt didn't have any luck.

We arrived at the griffin inn at 8.30 for breakfast which was superb! (You must ring first) The river looked
perfect, running at 1ft6in above. As this beat is fly only it makes the method of fishing easy, William and myself fished up to 12.30 with no luck apart from finding that what I thought was a stone in my waders turned out to be a pound coin!(with that sort of luck how could we fail?) We broke off for lunch and headed off to the Wheelwrights Arms in the village (the food is spot-on.) We ended with a trout and and two salmon parr! We saw no salmon, but we had a great day. I know it was only three hours between meals, but William dragged me to the pub, and anyway it was for his birthday!

No salmon, no water. 1 salmon parr very gready swalowed a nymph.

Unfortunately a Nil return - lots of tugs but no takers.

Very difficult conditions with heavy rain and water rising throughout the day by 3ft. Managed to catch 12 brownies size 9-12" using gold head cats whiskers. WUF helpful as usual. Thank you! All fish safety returned.

Nasty downstream wind for most of the day. Mainly overcast with a wet afternoon and sunny evening. River very low. Little fly apart from a few Yellow Mays, and sedges and some spinners later on. Few rises all day. Most fish caught were non-risers. Over 40 grayling, half a dozen small trout, lots of parr and a few chublets. Most grayling ~9 inches but at least fifteen in the 12-14 inch bracket. All in good nick. Most taken on emergers.

Lots of small grayling and half a dozen 12 - 18" trout and grayling. Beautiful warm day and all taken on dry fly.

Nice day out, mix of rain and sun cold wind etc.

2 nice greyling and a fat 9" trout. All on spiders, down and across in the fastest water I could find, just below the first set of planks. Did not see anything move all day, klinkhammer and nymph did not work for me. Very pleasant day, plenty of buzzards and kingfishers as well.

Every time I am on this beat I meet someone interesting, last time it was a South African, this time it was a Russian....

Fished Lower Planks Pool - 1 x salmon (hen) approx 8lbs, and 1 x brown trout about 2lbs.

1 x Salmon approx 8lbs Hen fish and 1 x Brown Trout approx 2lb. Both fish Lower Planks Pool