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A beautiful day for my annual pilgrimage to Gromain. Very few rises and only a brief flurry of Pale waterys around noon when the sun came through. The day was spent with the long rod and nymphs, Czech nymphing in the deeper runs just before the tail and at the head of the pools and French nymphing in the faster shallower water. Peeping Caddis and copper tung bead GRHE with a pink thorax worked well, the average size of the Grayling was better than last year with the largest at 15", the best OOS Trout was a stunning fish at 18", four Parr were also caught. A word of warning to folk with larger vehicles ( I drive a VW T5), the parking marked on the map does not have enough room to turn around which means a tricky reverse up a rough track onto a busy road. I park on the road verge by the bottom field gate by LLanstephan bridge.

10 Trout, 18 Grayling, 4 Other

Dry and bright day with occasional hatches of blue winged olives. Fish caught on nymph and dry patterns and all released safely.

6 Trout, 4 Grayling

Dry fly. Water was low but great for wading conditions. All fish returned. All fish small 5-6 inches.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

A blank day, although I did lip hook a couple of fish. Grayling? I tried a variety of nymph patterns and hook sizes. There were a small number of rises towards the left bank in the early afternoon.The water level fell quite quickly in the morning, then rose noticeably in the afternoon It was a dry day in this area, the opposite of the BBC forecast. A coldish wind blew down the valley; the prevailing wind was northerly, variable. The water was noticeably coloured all day - a muddy, rather than peaty, shade.

Bright and sunny but a cold downstream wind blowing for most of day. Saw only 2 or 3 fish rising so resorted to downstream nymph fishing. All fish caught on either a gold or tungsten nymph. Kept 1 trout @ 10oz

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

River still high (about 1 ft above summer levels), cold and slightly coloured. Only surface activity coming from presumed salmon parr on far bank under the trees. Plenty of caddis activity above the water, and a sporadic hatch of small olives during the early afternoon. All fish were caught on a heavy tungsten beaded point fly: 5 trout from just below the boards at Llanstephan, 3 trout from infront of the hut, and the sole grayling from the deep water near Cottage. All the trout and grayling were in the 6-8" size range.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was still high 1'7",so again tricky wading.
Grayling were caught at the bottom of the beat, but another dry day. Celebrated my birthday the night before so felt a bit grey and really only added moral support to the others.
The girls in the foundation office were great,putting up with all my alterations to our fishing.thanks again.

6 Grayling

1'7" falling,a little colour, overcast. Full of expectation - but not to be! New boards on Ferry are excellent. At least the trout were keen.

7 Trout

An enjoyable day on the Wye, but unfortunately nothing to declare.

Despite low level and sunny weather, my son, who was guesting with me, managed a hen fish of around 13lb from the Heirag on a red and black flying 'c'. As an added bonus we caught 8 good trout to 1lb plus. Great day for both of us.

1 Salmon, 8 Trout