Feedback & Reports

very slow few hours with nothing happening. all grayling 10-13 inches.

4 Grayling

we started the day cooking bacon sandwich in the hut we fished from the lower end of the beat and finished at penalow pool we caught most of the fish on the French leader difficult day the grayling didn't seem to be feeding as well as they should be still we all had fish great day thanks shaun

4 Trout, 27 Grayling

we started fishing around 10 after meeting at Greg's we fished the lower beat first the levels was up with a bit of colour in the water we all got in to fish straight away all our fish came from the lower end. we stopped at 1 for a coffee and had a warm in the hut. we did fish up to craiglyn falls where I had a grayling which gave me the run around in the pushing water, we called it a day at 3.30 as the rain started great day out thanks shaun

5 Trout, 26 Grayling

started the day with a hot chocolate from Greg's, we fished the end of the beat up with the duo taking fish up through. later a hatch large dark olives Simon stayed by the hut taking on drys, myself and shaun went up fishing ash tree pool and craiglyn falls taking also on drys

1 Sea Trout, 18 Grayling

Fabulous day on the Wye. Hovering around 5degrees with lots of cloud cover.
Managed a Grayling of about 1lb to the net in the morning aswell as a WBT of about 1/2lb in the morning. Both taken on a PTN under a strike indicator, both within about 10 minutes of each other.
Then later in the afternoon managed another Grayling of about 1lb on a olive CDC emerger.
Fantastic day.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 lb grayling on an F fly, late afternoon . River low and clear. Cold and rainy, not the best of days but a great beat all the same.

1 Grayling

Cold and windy. Water clear and full of floating leaves. NO LDO hatch and no rise. All fish caught on nymphs. Some larger grayling to 16" from the long glide towards the bottom of the beat on dead drifted nymphs. Smaller trout and grayling from the top half of the beat. Very varied stretch of water and well maintained.

4 Trout, 8 Grayling

8 x grayling 12-16 inches, Grayling Steel Blue, Red Tag, Sturdy's Fancy. Another very cold day for October, in fact minus 3 and a hard white frost when I arrived, so I went to the cafe for a second breakfast and came back when the sun had warmed things up slightly. River very low and clear. A few grayling were now rising and large dark olives in evidence after lunch so dry flies could be used. By 3 the temperature was rapidly falling again and no more surface action , so in a sense it was like a March day in reverse. What a pleasure to fish a well-maintained beat with stiles all in good order and benches overlooking every pool!

8 Grayling

I thought the oos salmon was a record grayling!

1 Salmon, 3 Grayling

Day two of a mini-break. I stayed in The Lion Hotel in Builth Wells - clean & comfortable, off street parking, good breakfast, good price. Recommend it if you are doing Upper Wye beats.
Today the temperature had dropped significantly from Thursday and it felt very cold in the gusty wind. There was plenty of action on the river with fish coming up to the dry and taking the nymph on the same duo set-up (see my 25th Oct feedback from The Rocks). Early afternoon the fish started rising to a sustained hatch of pale up-wings and for a time I switched successfully to a CDC dry.
My problem today was keeping the fish on! I lost at least half a dozen after the first grab, and like all who blame their tools, I began to curse my barbless hooks. Anyway 4 nice Wye fish came to hand, 3 sturdy 14" Grayling and a similar sized OOS WBT. All returned fit.
PS: The beat instructions ask for catch return to be left on forms to be found in glass case in carpark. I couldn't find the glass case but it could have been a "boy look"!

1 Trout, 3 Grayling