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Again, not a great deal of fly life on the river to report. Plenty of lively salmon parr about..around ten of them getting to my nymph before trout and grayling had a chance. Fortunately all swam away strongly. The faster water produced half a dozen small trout.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling, 10 Other

Beautiful stretch of the Wye. Only fished right hand bank. Convenient path along most of the river. Enjoyable fishing despite gusty downstream wind and some road noise. Lost a few very large fish.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

Nothing caught. Bright day with wind blowing downstream, quite strong at times, made casting difficult. No risers seen all day, insect activity started to increase about 19:30 when I needed to leave the site.

Even though there had been a rise in water level it was already on the way back down we really need a lot of rain in the catchment and a good wash through - Nothing caught or seen

2 shad.
Fish came to grhe goldhead fished in faster runs.
Compared with a fortnight ago not many insects about. E g saw one yellow may in 5 hours on the water. Only two or three rises seen in that time and hooked trout on one of them with a klink. On and off v quickly.
Not too good a botanist but think I saw a small strand of ranunculus growing in the shallows. Hope it was.

2 Grayling, 2 Other

I don't think I have fished the river at this time of year. Wild chives were growing everywhere and the rhododendron at the hut was in full bloom. Anyway. Weighted hares ears proved to be the fly of the day, catching 5 of the 6 fish, the other falling to another type of nymph. With the amount of sunshine we had there wasn't much of a rise going on considering the fly life. I did speculate with dries, but the fish showed no interest. Incredible amount of bird life around, also a gang of canoeists, and a family of bathers came and went. Its a big beat and didn't bother us. We will return mid summer for another crack.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

Two small brown trout caught on pheasant tail nymph, french nymphing style. Tricky casting in a blustery downstream wind and a lot of variation in river height in places made things complicated. Excuses I know.

2 Trout

Fished the length of the beat. Nymphing in the faster stretches brought a few trout to 10".
Yellow mayflies, grannom and plenty of other insect species about but only occasional rises spotted all day.

4 Trout, 1 Other

Fished hard all the fast water with nymphs for a good number of trout and grayling. Extremely tough wadding. Saw 2 large barbel and a couple of shad swam past my feet. Highlight was a pb chub of maybe 7lb. I have caught plenty of big chub to 5lb but that was a beast!

12 Trout, 5 Grayling, 2 Chub

Lovely morning at very low water . 2½lb trout from Heirag , otherwise quiet , as expected given the conditions . Many thanks

1 Trout