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First day on the Wye this season, river low and crystal clear. Although the sun was flitting between the light cloud an upstream breeze made it feel chilly at times. No sign of any kind of hatch so opted to go deep in the upper pools managed to pick up a few between us. Gold head PT nymphs size 12/14.
All fish returned unharmed.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

Fished with a fellow member rod today with only 6’’ on the gauge, but we had fish from the off and caught steadily through the day finishing at 5.30ish.
Ferry down to the bridge was very productive but with a lot of trout parr beating bigger fish to the fly.
Later on, 13 trout to 14’’ and 3 large grayling to 17’’, plus lots of small fish were caught along the length of the spring pool to the hut, with two good size trout on the same cast on two occasions.
All caught on a team of wets and nymphs and quickly returned. Nothing caught on the surface and barely saw a rise all day.
The only downside was that the wading on the heavily algae covered bedrock was treacherous in places and a number of clatterings could easily have resulted in a broken wrist so care is needed.

13 Trout

Low water but fish showed in the sections with a bit of flow

1 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Other

Started under bridge and had a few pulls but again was too slow. Tight line nymphing was the order of the day. Gave this a couple of hours then decided to move. River very low but still had enough flow as I reached the Spout where I connected with a beautiful Grayling which waved goodbye as it danced off the hook. However did land a 10' Garyling later on my own Black Magic nymph. It was the up stream wind that got too strong so I decided to head back to Builth Wells for a pint or two.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout

Not a bad day temp wise but raining most of the morning, caught a nice Grayling and trout under the waterfall below the fishing cabin. Just after mid day I noticed huge bubbles forming downstream of the fall, seemed strange normally it forms foam and not big bubbles?

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

no luck today

Nothing doing today nice to be out in the pleasant weather. Nature starting to wake up great to see. Shame no fish

WOW!!! ok I went up to fish all the pools at least once. Started at the top gutter ,spun it through nothing spring pool twice nothing, down into Hellrig nothing now i was getting disappointed started the house pool got to the boards carried on down then bang a fish on, it rose nice clean fresh fish, 20 minutes later I just managed to get its head in the net. A pure bar of solid silver fresh fish ,measuring 41 1/2 inches an absolute stunning fish to start the season