Feedback & Reports

Introduced a friend of mine to the slippery slope of fly fishing. Whilst the sun and lack of water made catching hard, it was an easy introduction to wading and casting. We did winkle out 7 wbt, mostly 5"-6" on a range of nymphs. And my mate landed the fish of the day on debut, a pristine 9" brownie.
We had a long lunch on the bank, sipped some river-chilled wine, chatted and gazed at the river, marvelled at the beautiful Wye Valley countryside and soon the lack of rising trout and shoaling grayling seemed not to matter.
My fishing has become quite frenetic over the years but today reminded me that it's so much more than the catch.
Retired to our B&B and evening meal content with one more fisher added to our fraternity.

7 Trout

A first time out reccie on this beat for me and as has been said by others it is challenging wading in many places but I had no real problem just going steady and thinking and looking well before making the next move!

Beautiful stretch of water and location too and very well maintained by the owner (who I had the pleasure of meeting ) and I think it might need a hatch of some sorts in the big pools to give the best of the fishing? Looks like it could produce some lunkers!

Nothing hatching today (no surprise given current conditions and time of year) but some nice trout came out on top sipping spinners in the run just above the road bridge at last light. Looking forward to the next outing already.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Very hot and river low and weedy. Fish caught in faster water on feeder and pellet and float and meat.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Trout

Another hot day, and river level very low. No surface activity. Caught about a dozen juvenile trouts and 4 adult ones, all on a tandem of beaded nymphs. Even had the surprise to catch 2 together, one on each nymph.

16 Trout

1 Trout

Hot and sunny day greeted me Saturday morning with the river very low. Had booked a two day session and concentrated on the deep runs - Bridge Pool Gutter/Heirag. Czech nymphing brought results with good Grayling - 10 - 12inch. But the big surprise was a 2/3ib Chub. Put up a very good fight and took a GRHE on jig hook like all fish on the day. Found the Heirag pool too deep to fish even though with river was very low. Kept moving from pool to pool which seemed to work well.

4 Grayling, 1 Chub, 1 Other

A bright sunny day on a low river were always going to make this tough. Fished afternoon into evening and caught on both feeder and float.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was very low, a lot of weed showing. Managed to winkle out a small barbel in the shallow water half way down the beat.

1 Barbel