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River dropped to 0.58m overnight but still carrying nice tint. A couple of fish moving on Rock. Saw a fish rush from under the rock to chase S.B.'s fly but turned away at last minute. A couple of shows at the pub. Fished for 8 hrs. Just one good pull each of indeterminate origin.

A mild day with moderate showers of increasing duration. 10 wild brown caught, all released. 9 taken on a #18 gold bead head/quill body. Fished New Zealand dropper style from an olive Klinkhammer. One taken on this fly. Several fish missed through out the day on both flies. Some surface activity evident sporadically.
A wonderful day with plenty of kingfisher sightings! A beautiful beat, thank you WUF.

10 Trout

Two coloured fish on fly. 12lbs and 13lbs

2 Salmon

River still up and a little coloured. Barbel fell to both trotting and ledger fishing.

8 Barbel

Started in the Llangoed Pool, had a red fish follow the spinner in and turn at the last second. V large fish showing between the boat and the gutters, could not interest it, but would say at least 20lb, paving slab style splash! Then fished down through the top pools in lower Llanstephan with a fly no takes, saw one grilse. Then switched sides and caught a 14lb slightly coloured hen about 60 yards up from the boat, literally the last cast of the day at gone 8pm! A very interesting and diverse fishery. Look forward to coming back with another person and exploring the depths of those gutters properly with the boat next year!

1 Salmon

11lb cock fish caught in Hoel Vach by Matt Tricks on the fly. Netted by Tom Tricks, aged 8 years.

1 Salmon

Arrived at river at 9am to find it coloured and pushing through quite fast. Perfect looking conditions, humid, overcast and colour.
First barbel to mates rod, first bite at 15:15. Beautifully conditioned fish of exacty 9lb. This was followed by his second barbel, 5lb at 19:00. Both caught on garlic flavoured meat. As for me, first and only bite at 19:15 which came in a downpour and was missed. Fished until dark trying pellets of all types. Wye dropped a little then came back up a bit and we are at a loss as to why we had so few bites,on a river that looked spot on.
I suppose that's what keeps us coming back.
Cheers Graham.

2 Barbel

The river was back down to just above summer level but was flowing quite quickly, the weather was overcast, warm with a heavy downpour around 1700 hrs. Very few fish rising and no significant insect hatch all day, I fished with the intention of catching trout and achieved catching nine fish to 2lb, all were in excellent condition and all returned.
The large fish took a GRHE the rest, all around the pound mark, took partridge/orange or snipe/purple size 14 fished across and down and we're all taken at the tail of the pools.
Regards Brian.

9 Trout

2 Trout

Conditions looked spot on however the barbel didn't play ball. Level dropped 6 inches during the day.
Next time maybe.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub