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Fished from early morning until after lunch, mainly spinning. River clearing but very slowly.
Nothing caught or seen.

Mainly small fish with one trout from head of Ferry nudging 12”. They went for the size 16 gold head on the point.
Other was a minnow(!)which took #18 soft hackle on dropper.

Some hard work has been done with the strimmer to make the tricky path more visible and to open up one or two more entry points. Thanks for your efforts.
Had to be selective about wading and avoided one or two spots which have usually produced fish in lower water.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

absolute rubbish again, a lot for no reward. River in good nick and for the beat, funny thing is we didn't see a trout let alone a salmon, starting to think is it worth it

nothing seen or caught, Pathways on this beat are dangerous even though we know where we are going , a visitor would struggle that's for sure.

Fishing Passport Note : Since this feedback, pathways have been cleared. This work was planned but had to be delayed because of nesting Sandpipers (we always have to bear in mind that the Wye and its banks are SAC & SSSI designated). Also, please be warned that there is a wasp nest at the top of the Leaning Willow!

River at 1ft 6in, fairly coloured - then went up (evidently after a cloud-burst) to 2ft at about 5pm, so I had to stop then. No salmon seen, though lost probably a big trout (on 2 inch tube fly). Maybe a run of salmon is working its way through the river following these good water rises - but no sign of it yet today.

All caught in a four hour session mainly in the middle of the beat. Two trout around the 3/4 lb mark, the rest small. Assorted spiders took most of the fish.
One salmon seen in exactly the same place that it was in this time last week, presumably unable to move up with this incessant low water.

10 Trout, 8 Grayling

1 Grayling

Only managed an hour and the fish were very tricky. Winkled out a couple on a kilnk but I never really zoned in.

2 Trout

Fooled 4 fish, one i never got to see, another snapped me up which left a 21" fish and another at circa 3lb.
Excellent 2 hrs fishing.

2 Chub

Most of the fish were a modest size but with a few around the 10-11” mark.
Targeted grayling in the faster water, tight line nymphing with heavy bugs which got fish in the morning. A change of tactics to a lighter team gave good fishing in the afternoon with most coming to emerger top dropper patterns rather than any flies fished deeper.
Fished barbless so a lot of escapee’s as well .All quickly to hand and released without netting.

20 Trout, 10 Grayling