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Fished a couple of hours in the evening, mainly with the purpose of testing out a new switch rod. There were plenty of sedges about and a few blue winged olives hatching but not much surface activity from the trout. Caught a few up to about 13" and a small grayling, mostly on nymphs in the faster water with a couple falling to a black klinkhammer.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Another nice day. No salmon seen or caught.

Really enjoyed my day at the Rectory. The weather played ball, was expecting heavy storms but never happened. River was low but started to rise a little and colour up slightly. Decided to fish above the bridge in the morning. Had a few small trout on the long flat water and the Tail of the Rock Pool produced Grayling, pretty much one a cast for a while, once I got it right. Bumping shrimps along the bottom was pretty deadly.
Using the same method on the Bridge Pool caught me my first Barbel on a fly. No Monster, about half a pound, but very welcome.
After a couple of pints and food at The Bridge Inn I fished the lower end of the beat. Very Beautiful, challenging fishing. Not easy access in places, but that's wilderness fishing. Loved it. Caught plenty of trout, nothing massive, all about 4-8 inches. Further down saw fresh Salmon jumping around.
To sum up, a beautiful place which you will never fish all of in 1 day. Various water types, shallow rapids, long runs, and some very deep holes. Will be back.

8 Trout, 10 Grayling, 1 Barbel

Stayed at The Griffin which, besides good ale and food, allowed an early 5am start. They also allowed me breakfast at midday.
From the start saw two fish show in the neck of The Rectory, one coloured the other silver, both about 10lb. This offered encouragement. Along with cooler early morning temperatures, cloud cover faded as the morning progressed and temperatures increased. Just a few trout taken in the faster water at head.

3 Trout

Beautiful day, no fish seen or caught.

Hoped the previous days rain would spark some interest, it did but only the trout! One at 20 inches which pumped the heart for a few seconds.
started 5am, fished The Rocks with an otter(though he seemed more interested in playing) finished at 1pm.

4 Trout

A good days fly fishing but only one salmon seen in The Rectory travelling through. Seven shad to 3.5lbs caught throughout the day on a size 10 Flamethrower that gave some good sport.
The condition of the banks by the Rectory and Neck are completely overgrown so that you cannot see the pot holes and caused many stumbles! The Rectory beat is described as a premier beat but the condition of this part of the banks would put it into the 4th division. Great shame as it is a lovely beat.

7 Other

10lb salmon at 11am in the Rectory Neck to a brownish bottle tube on floating line.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout, 1 Chub

Water coloured from the night before as we had a bit of a rise. Fished for about 6 hours and even through a thunderstorm to catch a salmon but unfortunately not even a follow or a take? Saw 2 fish, one from the Bridge Pool and one in Ty Mawr Pool. Also, whoever cut the grass in Rock Pool many thanks as this can be a nightmare to fish especially like today when wading - it was so coloured you couldn't see your feet.

Fished all day yesterday from 6:30am with the water looking in prime conditions, slightly coloured with 1'5" on the gauge but to no avail again.
This year is certainly proving very tough catching the running fish just right. My 10th (200 mile round) trip to the Wye this season with only 1 fish to my name.
Notably my fellow angler hit a pod of Shad with umpteen takes and hook-ups in the Rock Pool tail out. If they're there, surely the Salmon are?!

6 Trout, 2 Other