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What a wonderful afternoon/evenings fishing. Didn't start until 4.00pm as it was August and fairly warm. What a fantastic stretch for a mixture of fly fishing. Some nice fast flowing pool heads for a bit of down and across nymph/spider work, some deep holes for a bit of klink and dink and some nice flats for the dry fly. No sign of the trout, just not interested, but we had over 40 grayling and 10 salmon parr in four hours up to 1.5 lb. We were a bit worried that the beat might not be big enough for two of us but we could have spent the whole day here. A beautiful spot and would definitely visit again.

A day with a frequent blustery downstream wind until early evening. The rather sparse emergence of pale watery duns throughout much of the day seemed to inspire a few fish to rise, albeit not many. However, fish were, as a result, clearly in heads-up mode with 35-40 grayling and eight trout taken on the day. Most were non-rising fish moved by a pale-watery emerger, a small hare's ear emerger and latterly by one of Mark Roberts's bi-vis black midge shuttlecocks. Most of the grayling were of a standard ~9 inch year-class (clearly a successful spawning year), but two fish of 12 inches, four of 14 inches and two of 16 inches (around 1.5 lb), made for a rewarding day's sport. What a delightful beat this is!

Much to my surprise 1 fish @ c.3-4 lbs. I am pretty certain that this was a sea trout due to its' square tail. Anyway fish returned. Method spinner @ tail of Lady Alexander's catch.
Conditions good with a lot of good sized trout (1/2 - 1lb) about - some caught and looking as if they have been stocked?
Foundation service really good with e-mail booking easy and web cams enabling some assessment of water before "just turning up in hope".

Brown trout x 3 fish by dry fly, Grayling x 3 fish by dry fly. Fished about 7 hours. (From 14 to 21)

Cloudy, windy day. Caught 8 brown trout to 1.5lb, 2 grayling 1.5 lb each. Good sport, all returned.

Fishing with two others - to do own returns. Caught 4-5 "tiddlers" - Fished 12.00 - 15.00

3 grayling to 12 inches and 11 BT to 14 inches all returned. Taken on GRHE

2 grayling caught on nymph both approx 7". 1 trout caught dry fly approx 5"

First time I've fished this beat, but yet another classic Wye valley fishery. River very low, but with a tinge of colour from recent rain. Had to share beat unexpectedly with 3 anglers from Winchester, but all managed very amicably. Concentrated on Lady Alexanders Catch pool and managed to extract 8 trout and 7 grayling, spread throughout the length; none of any particular size, bar one grayling of around the pound mark. GRHE & Copper John most successful flies, with only one trout being taken on a dry fly. Will be back in autumn for the grayling!

Glorious day , warm and sunny

I was determined to fish dries , my friend stuck with nymphs. He pulled out 3 Grayling and 3 Trout all around 10 -12 inch.

Depite the glorious start and intermittent north east wind kept making an un welcome appearence so aprt from the odd snatch no luck for me , until I moved up above the weir and caught 3 Grayling about 8 inch on a yellow may dun in the shade of the trees.

Another fantastic three days in stunning surroundings thanks to those nice people at the Wye and Usk Foundation.