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Dozen trout and OOS grayling to 12". Not a great deal of visible activity but about half fish caught on the surface to small black emerger patterns. A very enjoyable beat.

Three trout to 10". Two grayling 12" each. Two salmon parr.

Nice setting, very low water. 4 small trout (to 7 inches)and a few out of season grayling. Most taken on parachute Adams. Various families skimmming stones from opposite bank and 2 canoeists made an appearance during the afternoon-the joys of a bank holiday weekend in the sun.

Bright, very low, clear and frequently with a wind which was all over the place! A few olives on and off throughout the day and a handful of late morning grannom - no fish taken on pupa emergers. Few fish rising and very hard fishing. We had 25-30 trout and grayling between us, about equally divided by species. Trout small; biggest about 12". Best four grayling 14-15 inches, some 10 inches and the rest smaller. Fish taken on PTN, GRHE and olive nymph patterns, Greenwell's Spider, and hare's ear and olive emergers. Most rising fish taken on emergers and most non-risers taken on the same patterns whilst fishing foam lanes and creases. All fish returned. Bring on the rain ASAP and lots of it!

Another beat recommended by Seth at the Foundation which gave another delightful day's fishing. 21 fish in total, mostly trout with a few grayling. The best trout was around 12". Again, the fish were most active early in the morning with several taken in the water below the Edw pool before the sun really got on the water. But they were feeding fairly steadily through most of the day and always offering a chance.
My wife was busy sunning herself by the river when two very noisy canoeists appeared out of nowhere - they were very politely given the Wye and Usk Foundation approved advice and were not seen again!

15 fish in total caught, 5 of which were graying. No fish were taken. Water very low (like mid summer really) but great sport.

I could catch 1 Grayling and 3 trouts as follows. Grayling - 42cm with Sedge. Brown trout - 26cm, 20cm and 18 cm all with Sedge. Very low water, and difficult to catch.

Despite the warm, sunny weather there was little fly life apart from the occasional olive. So only 3 out of season grayling (10" to 12") on Kite's Imperial and snipe and orange spider. All fish returned in the water untouched.

Glorious sunny morning on the Wye; no fish until a strong olive hatch around noon, when a small grayling took a tung-head GRHE, and things looked promising. Then the kayaks came, a lurid multi-coloured flotilla of them (very polite paddlers I should say). End of fishing in such clear water; all went dead and so I packed up for lunch. At tea time on the flats at the top, trout were rising to emergers. Hooked into but lost what felt a decent one, on a hairs ear klink.
A mixed day all in all.

4 x grayling 9-15 inches, 1 x out of season trout 10 inches, trotting with centre pin. This beat fished marvellously well during the late summer and autumn, but has been slightly disappointing on my couple of winter visits. They must be in there somewhere!