Feedback & Reports

An hour and a half's very enjoyable fishing on the Rectory starting around 3pm. An array of insects were coming off - mayflies, yellow mays, various olives, stoneflies and sedges with trout rising sporadically to them. The water was still quite coloured after the weekend's rain, which meant we could get very close to the fish without detection. Sharing a rod we had 14 wild browns to hand using cdc olive emergers and parachute Adams, and missed twice as many more. The fish were all around the 3/4 pound to a pound mark although there were some bigger ones rising just out of wading/casting range (of course!).
Trout fishing on the upper Wye should be at its best over the next few days with the water still carrying some colour.

14 Trout

Started at 1pm and had four enjoyable hours at the Rectory. Little surface activity but a few fish rising in the flats. Most of the fish came to nymph in the fast water, the largest (15") going airborne before I even knew it was hooked! Some of the trout were quite lean but all put up a good fight. Lots of salmon smolts caught, all of which were unhooked and released swiftly without being handled.

14 Trout

Beautiful location, cold unfortunately but we will be back again. 3 of us fishing, I was fishing under the road bridge and blanked. One of my brothers was fishing approximately 50 yards up stream from me and caught 1 trout and 1 Grayling. My other brother was fishing about 20 yards up stream from him and caught 7 Trout and 7 Grayling. They will not let me forget this until we come back next year.

8 Trout, 8 Grayling

Lovely days fishing in a beautiful spot - 1 pull in the neck of Rectory late in the day - No salmon seen - I saw 1 cormorant down towards the run.

A lovely first day out for the 2016 season, river looked good at 1' 5" but sorry to report no sign of a salmon. Good hatch of olives at lunch time and trout rising all over the tail of the Rectory pool for about an hour. Will be back soon.

No salmon despite good conditions. One suicidal grayling (returned).

1 Grayling

Very pleasant days fishing. One pull in rock. Three cormorants seen.

3 Trout

Smashing days fishing, banks very clogged up with willow trees and flood debris made movement very difficult, challenging. Lovely day though would do it again.

2 Trout

Unfortunately the river was too brown and high to fish after the heavy rain the day before so the rods never made it out of the car!

1'10" and rose 2" according to my stick in the two + hours I was there. Heavy hail scuds. Water clear and occasional trout rising.
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