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Two 10lbers this morning, size 10 Bann shrimp. Lucky to get the second fish - line went under a mid river boulder and it removed the poly from my polyleader. Only had it for about five years as well.

2 Salmon

A calm and bright (but not sunny) day on the river. Yellow Mays and Mayfly (etc.) emerging throughout most of the day. Trout from 9" to 12", with one c. 14"; Grayling c. 1lb. Fish in deep runs, faster and slower moving pools, especially at the ends of the pools. A few salmon moving. Best fishing up until 6pm, then the river went quiet (the opposite of the previous days fishing at Plas Gwyn). Bead-headed GRHE; CDC comparadun, and klinkhammers. The wading is very tricky in places; a wading stick (I used a pre-cut length of hazel), and good wading boots, are absolutely essential. A beat with lots of variety. A lovely day's fishing.

15 Trout, 1 Grayling

16 lb fish this morning, 3 casts with single hook fly c after 3 hours of fly fishing. Exasperating at times this fishing business.

1 Salmon

The river was very low and the top half of the beat almost unwadable due to the uneven algae coated bedrock. Anglers should take great care wading here - it was some of the toughest wading I've encountered (and I've fished most of the upper Wye beats).
Duo outfished French leader tactics and all fish >1lb took a klink type pattern. The largest grayling weighted 1lb 8oz.
A decent beat for a few hours but be careful!

12 Grayling

Fished morning at Lower Glanwye and afternoon at the Rocks. All quiet on the surface except for two salmon in the Lower Cabin and two smaller salmon showed at top of Rocks. Good to see and hope they get to where ever and do their stuff. Grayling wise six off Lower Glanwye, small , biggest 8 inches. Not so many off Rocks,only two, but one 16 inches. All fell to a light brown hackled, purple body, pink tail weighted size 14 (sorry name unknown as self tied )fished under an a bung.

6 Grayling

1 Grayling

Grayling about 1/2 lb on nymphs, and a small trout from the bottom of the beat.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Trout, 5 Grayling

I ghillied today for my friend, Rufus Ulyet. He hooked three, landed two, size 12 Bann Shrimp. 11lbs Llyn Em Pool, 10lbs Middle Caban.

2 Salmon, 3 Trout

First time fishing Lower Glanwye and the notes are spot on, not the best access along the bank and wading is tricky mainly on bedrock fishing into the gutters. I started in Stepping Stones and towards the tail of the pool I had a good take which resulted in a 12lb hen, which like yesterdays fish was just starting to colour. Swam off strongly. Caught on a 1 inch cascade tube. Quite a few fish showing, mainly in the pools in the middle of the beat.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout