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No salmon, the river is low, saw two moving through the neck of rock pool. The trout were out in force, saw a few hatches lots of surface activity. A few had a go at my Willie gun not massive fun on a 14ft rod however, bute kept the day interesting. Should have probably booked the day as trout, as the river was full of life and gin clear.

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I wasn’t expecting to catch today but from what I could gather the river was up 6” this week and a change in weather might’ve stirred a Salmon from its slumber down in the deeper pools but the river looked as though it’d dropped back down to its bones overnight. I gave Mill Stream, Neck of Rectory into Rectory a few hours on the fly but didn’t get a pull or see any sign of a Salmon.
There were a few fish rising to the very sparse number of flies so I nipped back to the car for my trout gear and promptly caught a nice OOS Grayling on a dry fly to save a blank before heading home before the rain.
Just an observation but I’ve fished the Tay, Tweed, Swale and Hampshire Avon in the past week and all were alive with aquatic fly life of all varieties but the Wye in comparison seems lifeless.

1 Grayling

Fished from 11 to 5, Mill Stream and The Rectory. Used various size Cascade and Willie Gunn. Even tried my blue Charm popper. Did see one nice trout jump in the Rectory Neck plenty of very pale colour flys hatching but nothing rising. The rock pools are teeming with fry.

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6 Trout, 8 Grayling

Lovely day just bouncing through the beat , albeit I was very doubtful in my mind of catching any silver tourists with the river being on its bones . One can still enjoy listening to the birds singing and other wildlife flitting by.
Stopped at the hut for a bite to eat , always enjoy sitting on the veranda for an hour or so , really appreciate the hut being there for us, what I don’t appreciate is the person who smoked and left his butts everywhere and stubbed his cigarette out on the shelve of the hut . Bloody moron ! I cleaned your butts inside the hut too , not only could you have caused a serious fire but also ruining it for other members ( unless you was on a day ticket )

2 Trout

Fished from Island Run to the Flats and from Mill race to Neck of Rectory. Nothing seen. Despite the rain showers, it was a lovely day. The water was "gin" clear, all that was missing was the elusive salmon!