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What a beat! I started at the top and worked my way down. I was on the move for most of the day trying to explore as much of this stretch as I could. I only managed to get just over half way before having to turn back up to fish my favourite swim before the light was lost.
As an SSI area this is a challenging/adventurous beat and I really enjoyed the terrain It makes it so much more enjoyable (in my opinion) when you have to work to where you want to fish.
I long trotted all day with reg maggots using an ultralight 13ft rod and a pin loaded with 5lb line. Many of the runs held fish, but I found after 2/3 fish the bites dried up, so I moved on, but when you have this much water to go at its not an issue. I was trying to find a bigger shoal, which I found at last knockings, and had to give in after 5 Grayling and an OOS brownie.
I will be back before I get to old to tackle this stretch again!

1 Trout, 15 Grayling

2 anglers trotting, river in great condition, clear but decent flow. Found fish in the pools but seemingly absent from the runs. My that's a long beat, covered only half of it.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling

Heavy rain pretty much all morning, brightened up with the odd shower in the afternoon. Grayling were hard to find, managed to pick a couple around 4 30 pm. All in all an enjoyable day .

4 Grayling, 1 Other

5 Trout, 6 Grayling

cold foggy start to the day, haven't fished this beat for a few years, it seemed it went down hill for a while ( I think the otters had something to do with that!) so it great to see it back on form. it is one of the most beautiful stretches of water you will see but too much to cover in just one day! I only really fished the bottom third of the beat today and unbeknownst to me I was sharing the same bit as someone else ! we never met until the end of the day. water clear and at a nice level ( 0.65 on the climery gauge) but I was amazed to see by the leaf line on the fields how high the flood was on the weekend , it must have been 10 feet up! euro nymphing all day grayling to 16" trout to 14"

10 Trout, 9 Grayling

2 Grayling

Fished the upper stretch this time and found them taking dries, though very tentatively. All on Grayling Steel Blue, largest 17 inches, others 10 - 12 inches.

4 Grayling

After yesterday's productive day on the Wye, it was surprising on what was a much calmer day that should have been ideal, given all of the fallen leaves, for top of the water fishing, that more success was not had and so few fish showing. Tried duo but had nothing on the nymphs and even drifted a few bugs around likely spots but to no avail. Rose some fish and cast to the very odd riser of which there were surprisingly few. A lovely 16" female fish of about 1.75lb led the way for the out of season trout , and the grayling were of 10-12", and all fish came to HE and olive emergers. Everything came in fives unfortunately, including five most unwelcome canoes, which completely screwed the fishing in Little Glaslyn Pool. Their well-equipped occupants as usual claimed ignorance of access restrictions, one had to get out and portage the canoe over the tail of Glaslyn as the river was down to 0.4m. (so God knows how they'd coped elsewhere), and also claimed not to know that even the upper Wye would not have been accessible either, this early in October, as it was so far below the red lines. Don't think they gave a stuff that I had paid and they hadn't! Not good but unfortunately par for the course. So much for the observation of VAAs.

5 Trout, 5 Grayling

11 x grayling 6-14 inches, 1 x out of season trout 19 inches, Red Tag and Grayling Steel Blue dries. A warm and cloudy day after a mild night, water at a good height - you would think it a perfect grayling dry fly day. In fact there were very few rises and the only grayling shoal I found rising was composed of mostly shots. A slight sipping rise on the edge of a raft of dead leaves was repeated when a Red Tag was floated there and after a 50 yard dash downstream in panic turned out to be a beautiful hen brown trout. A most handsome fish but unfortunately it's October 4th, so it doesn't count! There you go.

11 Grayling