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Second time for both of us as 'beginner 'grayling fishermen, although reasonably experienced trout/sea.Had a session last October with a guide.Lovely day out, despite showers, but no fish!Couldn't fish the top run very well as rising river and too risky to cross.We put it down to rain, rising water, probably lack of ability to get the nymph down far enough or downright incompetance! Great to be on the river again.Bull in field with ladies and calves were semi- interested, but not a problem.

3 anglers. The beat is not long and there is only one run that is really fishable (at least at the time we were there).
But the fishes were present. The biggest grayling was 47cm and we caught a 49 cm trout.

8 Trout, 20 Grayling

Another interesting day at this beat and it didn't disappoint. Overcast day but no rain. Recent rainfall made life difficult with river full of leaves and twigs. Fished Czech style with jig hook nymphs and caught all on a Jonathan Barnes pattern (dropper) with my Black and Green PTN ignored. All Grayling from 10/12 inch. River started to rise later in the day, around 4 o,clock and wind picked up which made me call it a day. Lost two good fish. A nice touch was meeting the farmer who advised me not to worry but his cow's - "they are very friendly". He was right. A good day was had by all. Getting to like this beat very much.

4 Grayling

Air temperature was about 55 deg F, and although the river was dropping nicely it was quite murky.
I did get a good pull midday, and at about 6 pm just before I packed in, I was into a fish of under 10 lb for about 5 seconds at the tail of Lady Alexanders pool.
It was my first time on this beat and I will return, especially for the relatively easy wading along that pool.

Gale force winds but very little rain here during the night ( I know because I was sleeping in my car ! ) so I was not surprised to see the river full of leaves when I arrived, but I was not expecting it to be up and quite coloured. I knew the top section would be unfishable so I just fished along lady alexanders catch. Most of the fish caught czech nymphing and by the time I packed-up the river had come up another foot! Didn't even get a chance to fish near the pool. Grayling to 12" trout to 10"

3 Trout, 12 Grayling

Another fabulous day on the wye,my excuse is too much sun,too much water,too much colour,inept fisherman.looking forward to next year to try again.
Thank you wuf for all your work enabling us to fish beautiful beats.

Firstly a thank you to WUF for telling me Abernant was fishable in parts - if I had been offered a washoff I would have taken it. River was 1ft 9" at Llanstephan and Erwood was showing 1.20. At this height 2 weeks ago Ty Newydd had been virtually unfishable.
Water was up to the croys in Lady Alexander's Catch and flowing fast - but the saving grace was that the water was reasonably clear and there were distinct areas of lesser flow alongside the main stream. Started off fishing these edges klink and dink and had some splashy attention to the large klinkhammer. Switched to a small grayling steel blue and had a 10". Changed to a couple of heavy nymphs fished along the crease of the fast water at the head of the pool and had 3 more grayling to 12". Back to the dry rod and a couple more grayling.
Abernant Stream in the afternoon was a harder proposition. Impossible to wade but managed to edge out far enough for space for a backcast in three spots and fished stock still braced against wading staff jammed in downstream. Probably should have not been out there by myself. GSB kept sinking - but still picked up fish. Added a tiny pink bead head to deliberately keep gsb sub surface and picked up grayling all afternoon. Best fish easily 14" which gave a good tussle in the fast stream. Had one 10" grayling fight like a fish twice its weight - and then discovered I had a 10" trout on the nymph as well.
Last hour was back at Lady Alexander's - back to dry fly and had 5 more to get me to the 20. Most grayling were 8" to 10", 3 at 12" and 1 at 14", the wbt was 10" - didn't include the parr which took the nymph. All in all a very satisfying and confidence building day fishing in quite tough conditions. Lost quite a few as well on this season's barbless hooks.

1 Trout, 19 Grayling

Fished Lady Alexanders as a break from Rectory for an hour or so. Great water at 1'10" but no pulls and no fish seen.

Best fish was about 30cm. Four were caught using a team of three spiders. Two rose to a grey Klinkhammer.

6 Grayling

Water level looked encouraging but did not touch a thing all day, despite fishing at all levels until the fast sinker started to catch the bottom. I have been to this beat a few times & I have never once seen a salmon moving? It would renew the batteries if one knew there were fish lying there. Resorted to the trout rod at lunchtime & had a few speculating with a No:18 grey duster pattern. Saw an Osprey cruising down the river 11ish & then an hour later a Peregrine handing over a dead pigeon to a juvenile in mid flight just over my head, along with a lot of squawking. Ended the day wet through above the waist (rain) but happy that I still had my wallet this time.

Thanks to all at WUF.

3 Trout, 6 Grayling