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No sign of any fish but a great beat to fish with the Llanstephan webcam gauge at 1'6".

Fantastic conditions on the river Wye today with 1'6" on the gauge - albeit it crystal clear waters... Fished the beat from top to bottom twice (fly & spinner) having heard of fish showing here yesterday but to no avail not even a sighting of a fish. Some great pools on this beat I would love to hit it with a bit of colour in the water!

1 Trout

With the water looking great, this was a day to brush off the cobwebs and try out those flies I'd been tying in the winter. A strong pull after 10 minutes on a copper tubed Ally Shrimp in Upper Heirag lifted our hopes, but this was the only action of the day. We saw a Springer jump in Lower Bachawy.

River clearing, dropping during the day after Thursday night's rain. River is looking good for this week coming, shame I'm in Cambridge!

Got to the beat and it is as it looks as you drive past, stunning but coloured up over night. Nice flee water here and you don't have to cast very far either on the right hand bank considering the width of the river. The streamy water is on your side, wading described as challenging, however the river Tay was a lot tougher. Just use a staff and its fine. The beat owner was very helpful which is always a plus when you have not fished this beat before.
No Springer today but if he or she was there I'm sure I would have had a take. Water was clearing really nicely all afternoon and dropping back a bit.

River rose from 2.5 - 2.75 ft on gauge. Caught + returned 1 x 2.5lb Brown trout on Gold Willie Gunn Tube. No Salmon seen or caught. Lovely water, tricky wading at this height. I will be back later in the year.

1 Trout

River low and clear, slight downstream breeze with sunny spells. Challenging wading in many places, but some easier wading over gravel too. We struggled to locate many grayling but we did bump quite a few fish off, which in my experience is usually grayling, especially as we hooked so many trout. Fabulous location and we look forward to returning very soon.

20 Trout, 3 Grayling

7 x grayling 15-16 inches, 19 x out of season trout 7-14 inches, long trotting. The river still cold and clear, dropping slowly about 1 inch per day. As at Ty Newydd a couple of days ago, it seemed to be necessary to wade through large numbers of pushy, pugnacious out of season trout before being able to work the much shyer grayling. But the grayling here were worth waiting for: lovely fish at 15 and 16 inches.

7 Grayling

1 coarse rod,1 winter grayling fly rod. One of those Wye days when it did not happen, perhaps the water colder or the continuous overcast sky? 1 mini grayling in morning and three 1 to 2lb chub late dusk and 1 oos WBT of around 2lb late afternoon to the fly rod. 1st time at Gromain, its big wide water and tricky wading at current level and I had a hard time finding a swim to float fish with good presentation required in this very clear water. Best swim for float found end of day off board at top end of beat on hut side, deep and a bit of gravel around, it produced the chub. A good day to be out though.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 3 Chub

Late getting there and only fished for four hours. The grayling went to bed when the sun went down. Still,I had 16 grayling in the first three hours (and some small, out of season trout) trotting with a centrepin, first time this autumn. All returned. Grayling were of three different sizes with half-a-dozen between 35 and 40cms, i.e. over a pound. Average size seems to have improved since I last fished here. Autumn in the Wye valley - glorious. Should have remembered to wear thicker socks, the water was cold on the toes!

16 Grayling, 8 Other