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Lovely day and setting, but gushy wind made fishing difficult. Lack of rising fish or sight of fish also didnt help. Had two plucks of PTN.

River low and very clear. Bright and breezy afternoon with nothing rising. Tried spiders and duo with no response. More hatches started at 5 to 6 pm and fish started to rise at around 7 pm. We netted 3 WBT between 1 to 1.5 lbs (safely returned) and 3 good fish slipped the hook (probably due to our incompetence!). All fish caught on Jonathan Barnes Soft Hackle dries and we were never sure what the fish were feeding on. Lovely afternoon and evening on the water.

3 Trout

A cold clear night gave way to a warm sunny day, very slow start with no bites until mid afternoon, things improved rapidly and ended up with 5 carp including 3 doubles, the best going 15lb 4oz, lost two more to hook pulls.
Being a clay lake visibility is very poor, you need to keep a close watch on the water to find them.!

5 Other

No fish again, no one catching around me. Starting to think it's under stocked due to all the poaching I'm hearing about up there. Not fair on the paying customers.

Beautiful spot, not many risers and what did rise did not seem interested in the May fly, hard to tell what they were taking. Down stream of the bridge the bank has collapsed making it impossible to access the river although a local did say it was going to be improved again this year. Despite not catching anything it was a nice day on the river.

3 Trout

Tried spinner, float, ledger.. not a single bite within 9 hours. Clearly being poached with night lines, fires etc everywhere, everybody knows it's happening but nothing is being done.

Howling wind, low water, and bright sunshine made for a really tough day.

1 Trout

It was still cold with a tricky breeze blowing and showers. River was low and mayflies, yellow may duns and olives were hatching but the fish were reticent – we only had half a dozen by 6pm and many refusals. At six o’clock the rain set in…. but a blizzard hatch combined with a spinner fall induced an evening rise like I have never seen before on the Wye. By 7.30 the tally increased to 16, although there were out of season grayling in there. Best trout 16 inches.

The last hour or so were Wye dry fly fishing at its best….

8 Trout, 8 Grayling