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River v low but v good day weatherwise. V little fly life, with few fish rising. All trout were small with biggest only half pound. Grayling were 8-9" fish taken on small dries. An enjoyable - if not the most productive day, in fabulous surroundings.

25 Trout, 5 Grayling, 1 Chub

Trout caught on GRHE pattern nymph. No surface activity.

1 Trout

River low, but made wading easier on some pools. Trout caught on home tied black bug, and GRHE nymphs. Nothing rising.

2 Trout

My first time on the beat. Not a good beat for a man who drives a Hairdresser's car - with the turning around of said car in the parking area being a spectacle deserving of a wider audience. A pleasant day on a low clear river. Like other correspondents, I can confirm the Gromain beat is full of small fish; with the faster water at the bottom of the beat producing all but a fish a cast throughout the morning. Mostly small Trout and Salmon Parr. Some of these fish were seriously small - I must have caught bigger Minnows on South Newington brook as a boy. Concentrating on the deeper water above the hut produced a some better Grayling in the afternoon. In spite of a sunny afternoon, next to nothing on the top - with everything falling to a tungsten nymph.

20 Trout, 6 Grayling, 10 Other

Day was planned to target grayling on another Upper Wye beat having fished Pwll y Faedda and Abernant over the past week.
Used a small wispy brown fly (not sure what) and had 6 wbt in the 1st hour - all 6" or smaller. Persisted with dry fly all morning searching for grayling from the hut to the top of the beat with not another fish. Did have an otter playing around and staring at me at one point.
Chatted to the other rod on the beat at lunchtime who had been catching steadily all morning French nymphing.
Reluctantly switched from dry fly to a small tungsten hares ear and searched the faster water below the hut to above the bridge. Ended up with at least 25 trout and 2 grayling. Most of the trout were small but two were 10 - 12" and both grayling were 12".
Gromain is stuffed with small trout - which bodes well for the future.

25 Trout, 2 Grayling

River running low and clear so I decided to use a French nymphing set up. I lost count of how many fish caught after a while, so numbers estimated. The majority of the fish were small but with a few around 10"-12". Most took a size 14 copper tungsten head hares ear. Catching lots of juvenile fish is not really my thing but it was perfect for practicing long leader nymph fishing, which is a new style of fishing to me.

35 Trout, 10 Grayling

Fishing with nymphs & wet flies, quite a number of small trout, nothing large, best 1/4 brown and same size grayling.
Really nice beat, will come again.

12 Trout, 1 Grayling

Good day with the weather but fishing was difficult. A few small but welcome brown trout. After lunch things pickked up with a nice size chub 4lb worked my way back up the beat to the hut to find two other people fishing same beat one looked to have a spinning rod with him not sure about that.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Chub

Fun day, nice weather, saw some fish rising including one massive one that came up for a fly 40 ft in front of me - tried for it for 30 mins but unfortunately no luck. Still, the fish are there, just gotta pick the right fly (and probably get up a little earlier would help too).

A lovely Autumn day on the Wye but fishing still was challenging. Very little by way of a hatch - just a few olives and no silver tourists to be seen so the salmon rod was waved more as a statement of intent rather than with serious expectation. The fish have had a tough year looking at their current condition - all the sizeable trout up to 16" were underweight for their length and both they and the grayling carried significant numbers of lice. Still a great beat though - we hadn't really fished the bottom end before but there is some fantastic water for dry fly. Best grayling also 16".

13 Trout, 7 Grayling