Feedback & Reports

15 or so to hand, all to loop wing emerger between 2pm and 5pm.

15 Trout

Fished this beat and had an hour in the Upper Crai beat. Both lovely stretches of river with plenty of fly life and rising fish; however, I feel most of the rising fish at the Upper Crai beat were salmon parr, of which I caught several. Did see lots of 8-10inch trout but could only tempt one.
Dannycraig beat appeared to have a smaller population of fish, but the ones seen were of a good average size; one was at least 2-3lb! Sadly only seen it as it bolted past my feet but a higher fish for such a stream. Again, a few fish rising, but with the river so clear they were easily spooked by my clumsy casting.
May have to return in search of that trout again.

1 Trout, 5 Other

A better day for trout with temp 21 degrees and fine but cloud cover. Opted for trout as .52m and clear. Both J and I had parr on gold-head nymphs and I hooked and lost one trout of around three quarter pound, all between two and four pm at woodstream.
I fished through to 9.45pm and was encouraged by fish rising after 8pm. Lost one nice trout of about a pound fishing upstream dry white wulff at 8pm. Decided to give the rock a rest and returned at 9pm to take 7 fish of half pound to 1lb then at 9.30pm hooked a belter cock fish at 2lb, again on the upstream dry wulff. This fish taken, all others returned.
Activity ceased by 9.45pm, so only a short window so be prepared!

14 Trout

Fished from 11:30am - 2:30pm. Steep banks and high, dense vegetation extending a fair way from the river made accessing this beat extremely difficult. I only managed to enter the river in about half a dozen places and wading a decent distance upstream was also hard due to deep pools.
I ended up catching 2 small trout and a grayling from a long riffle using a gold bead GRHE, with 2 bigger trout caught later on cdc dry flies. I caught one of around 11 inches that I spotted making splashy rises in the head of a pool upstream of the road and another one of a similar size that had made a gentle rise above one of the weirs. Lots of fry seen in the margins.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 trout 1/2 - 3/4 lb all on nymph. Fished to 9.30pm, no real rise. Big fish in pools top end of beat. A pleasure to fish.

4 Trout

Fantastic days fishing for the three of us never fished Wye before - beyond our expectations. All fish caught on double hair rigged pellet and cage feeder. All fish caught downstream of pump which ran most of the day. Thanks Wye and Usk.

10 Barbel, 10 Chub

Superb day's fishing in excellent conditions. The water was crystal clear and in good flow and the weather was warm and sunny with some cloud. All fish were taken on a beaded hare's ear nymph fished upstrean. The three trout were small bit in great condition and the grayling ranged from tiny to a few ounces but nonetheless great fun to catch. Lovely fishing at Lyepole and well with a visit.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

Very hard day, started to catch around 4pm in afternoon.

8 Trout

Fished from midday through to 8.30pm and had another very enjoyable day on this stretch. After a slowish afternoon, which was expected with the weather, the fish started to feed well around 5pm. Honours roughly even with one catch of 5 barbel and 5 chub and another of 3 barbel and 5 chub. All caught on feeder tactics using a variety of the usual baits with the best barbel reaching 8lbs and a cracking chub of 5lb 13 topping the chub caught. Many thanks!

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

The river was very low but the rain on Friday must have stirred a few fish up because I lost what I think was a grilse (or very big trout) in the morning and annoyed a much larger resident fish (quite red) in the early evening.
On both occasions I was fishing a shrimp pattern size 12 in in Gravelly Pool.
A promising start to my season.

2 Trout