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A little more water than expected and slightly coloured. Grayling took a dry fly at about midday and 2 small trout on GBGRHE. Trickle of olives through the middle of the day but very little surface activity. Warm spring sunshine and the valley looked a picture.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

20lbs pike in morning spinning, water started clearing in afternoon then hooked lovely Springer only for it come off.

1 Pike

Recent small rise still slightly rising but colour not too bad. Gave the whole beat a good going over with Flying C's and Devons but only action was a kelt.

1 Other

Typical spring day - bright, breezy and fresh. River at a really good height for this beat, water carrying a tinge of colour and predictably cold for March.
Apart from a dense, 5 minute flurry of March Browns at midday, little in the way of fly life. Just one rising fish in the 4 hours spent on the water.
Managed 2 pretty wbt of around 10" and one oos grayling of around 15". All caught on weighted nymphs.
As ever, good to be casting a fly after a long, wet winter.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

The perfect Wild Stream location. Water condition and level absolutely excellent in wonderfully scenic and secluded countryside. Access from banks a little tricky in one or two places, where deeper pools across the width of the Stream made wading impossible/unwise and I imagine overhead and bankside vegetation could make things a little tricky once it fills out as the year progresses. I left several flies embedded in the scenery! Unfortunately, there was little sign of fish; I only actually saw one rise and that resisted all my efforts with dry, wet and nymph - I suspect I had spooked it and was casting to an empty pool! I think that my blank scorecard may say more about me than the Beat, so I would return. Only other comment is that directions to Parking don’t mention going through a gate and the grass parking area was quite slippery/muddy.

Again the Wye looked promising. Fished fly only on beats 5 and 6 [6 better of the two]. One salmon seen on beat 6 but only managed to catch 2 trout on a stoats tail.

2 Trout

Too much colour? Too much sun? Who knows; the conditions were just about as good as it gets. Fished the beat through but alas, not a fish to the fly....
Maybe next time!

8 Trout

6 Trout

4 Trout