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I fished morning through to mid afternoon for trout and grayling. A lovely stretch although a little daunting because of the size and number of pools. I caught a couple of grayling Czech nymphing on the upper rock pool and ended up on the main bend down by the Rectory just as the evening rise kicked off. If I had stayed, I am convinced I could have had a couple of the large browns I saw jump.

1'4" falling, a little bit of colour. A solid take in the rocks by a very strong Salmon (silver stoat). After a couple of minutes it went on such a powerful surge that it made my reel overrun. I'd just about sorted that out when a loop went over the reel handle with inevetable result!
An hour later a small fish (grilse?) rose at TJ's fly just as he lifted off to cast-also in the rock.
The other take was very vicious with no hooking, this on a red Francis in Rectory pool.
An eventful but frustrating day. Thankyou WUF.

Great day. Left just as the trout started rising (typical!). A few really nice Grayling from the Rocks.

Several very small trout, salmon parr and one dace - all on nymphs or a light Cahill dry.
For future reference, please can you tell me whether there is access to the right bank downstream from the church. I couldn't find any way that didn't involve going through someone's garden and I wasn't keen on wading across as the river was fairly high.

WUF note - This section is generally fished from the left bank.

Didn't catch or see a salmon at all. Did land a 2lbs chubb from The Run. I fished hard from 2pm - 8.30pm. The weather was dead against me with heat and bright sun right into the evening. My first visit to this beat and although the water was fading for the top pools, I was really impressed with the variety further down the beat. Cast the fly in most of them. Just seemed a bit quiet on the fish front.

1 x 4lbs brown trout (rtn) - Mill stream.

A very sunny and hot day meant only one lost fish in the Rectory pool. The fish was hooked on a mepps in bright mid-day sunshine. We stayed at The River Cafe, Glasbury, where the food and accomodation was really good.

Waited for the heat to come out of the day before starting. Started in Bridge and whilst picking my way through the pool one showed in the V. Another rod was on the lower half of the beat so went up to Rock. A T was fishing the neck. Whilst fishing tail 2 fish showed, shortly after a shout caused me to turn round and see a bent rod. Netted a lovely fish for him. Despite near perfect conditions only a couple a chub disturbed the rest of the evening. Water starting to warm up again.

Fishing the Rectory in near perfect conditions again is becoming a rather nice habit this season.
Being 4 nil down to the other rods at lunch time I decided to tackle the bottom of the beat. I decided to wade/scramble between the pools fishing the obvious places and runs when I was rewarded with a grilse of 5-6lbs. It was aken on a black and silver sunray from below the big rock in the "Run". Not the easiest place to land a fish and no chance of chasing a big fish up or down stream. Having worked down the rest of the beat which was full of little brownies I took the wise option and walked up the bank and along the edge of the fields feeling really chuffed that I was still dry and still had an intact rod. Another great day and a jolly good lunch in the Bridge pub.

Dawn at the head of the rock pool with a Heron on the large rock downstream, 3 young otters swimming past, even a few salmon showing lower down, then that wonderful ZZZ and into first Wye Salmon for a few years! Catching another later on in the "Run" at Mid day in bright hot sunshine was just smug. Wife and baby joined me for a picnic lunch. A glorious day. Thank you to the other friendly and helpful rods and also WUF!