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12 Trout

Lovely Beat, very low water and euro nymphing proved to be hard work, so switched to a Elk Caddis and started getting regular takes, only managed one to the hand but great fun!

1 Trout

Really nice water, although this time of year there are lots of campers on the campsites adjacent to the river, i started off under the bridge and made my way up stream. Had plenty of rises and hooked plenty of fish on an Elk caddis but only managed one to the hand. space is tight so a 7'6 2wt was the rod of choice and bow and arrow and roll casts were the order of the day. although in a couple of places a side cast or overhead could just about be managed. Great fun.

I fished this beat and Lower Henlan in the same day, i managed 6 hours across both and suspect i barely covered a 3rd of the total water, need to come back and explore properly one day.

1 Trout

Bright sun, a gusting downstream wind, and a low, clear river, when I arrived de bonne heure this morning. In spite of the low river, I still find the wading at the bottom of this beat plenty scary enough. With nothing rising, and very little fly life, I started with a nymph, picking up a Grayling more or less immediately. Fish then started to rise downstream of me, tantalisingly out of reach. A braver wader might have bagged up; not me though, I managed a couple more Grayling on a Klinkhammer, before moving off those horrible, slippery rocks, and making my way up river.

Not much activity in the Gutter. Up to the top of the beat after lunch. Again, not much fly life, but the odd fish rising. Still on a Klinkhammer, I caught fairly consistently, a combination of casting to rising fish and fishing the stream. This all changed in one run near the bottom of the top of the beat (if you get my drift) where, in a 30 minute purple patch, I must have caught a dozen plus Grayling, practically a fish a cast. Seldom, if ever, have I know fishing like it - it was as if every Grayling in the Wye wanted to meet Mrs Moulder's little boy in that half hour. I cannot explain why; the run itself was fairly nondescript and, as far as I could tell, nothing much was hatching.

A few more Grayling from upstream before having it away home for my lovely wife's beef casserole in Old Peculier and a bottle of Shiraz. A very good day, I hooked just about every fish that rose, with very few long range catch and releases. Let's call it 25 shall we; mostly fish in the 9-10 inch year class, but a handful at 12 inch plus, and a couple of 14 inches. Tres bonne

25 Grayling

1 Trout

One more for James Tustin on Sunday, a 12lb coloured fish.

1 Salmon

No fish

4 trout to 14in in the fast water river very low and clear

4 Trout

Biggest barbel was 8 pounds 6. The other fish was an eel.

6 Barbel, 10 Chub, 1 Other