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Beautiful stretch of the Wye, with lots of varied water. Even in low flows like today there were still pools where you could swing the fly. Access to the water is good, particularly the planks, but the description about difficult wading is very true. Didn’t catch, or even see any salmon.

Unfortunately had a problem with three canoeists who claimed not to know about the Upper Wye agreement and refused to leave the water.

4 Trout

Difficult day but lovely fishing most taken at the end of runs on nymphs no rises

2 Trout, 30 Grayling

2 Trout

We arrived early to be greeted by torrential rain, which thankfully subsided after a while. Water was at a really good height, and allowed us to wade for long sections of the Beat, but we were hindered by extensive amounts of weed, which meant constantly cleaning flies and leaders almost every other cast. It needs a good wash through.
Weighted nymphs were most successful, the majority of fish coming from the faster sections of the Beat. All were a good size, all healthy, and all safely released.

8 Trout, 4 Grayling

Approx 1.5 lbs

1 Grayling

1 Grayling

Fishing with JB as usual. The day started before the fishing when Stephen’s sister came along walking the dogs just as we were tackling up. Despite her sadness she very kindly spent 5 minutes saying hello and chatting. Kind words never seem enough at these times…but she was plainly keen that we fished, so having passed on condolences off we went.
The river was low, the sky was bright and there was little by way of insect life – just a few needle flies and occasional olives – and rising fish were few and far between. We have fished often enough however to know that the fish are still there. They just have to be found and tempted! As usual we had our parachute dries to do the business, and on these lower beats we generally expect smaller fish than the higher beats.
The willing fish were very localised and 12 came to hand – 7 wbt and 5 grayling. The grayling were of a stamp of which we might expect to encounter perhaps 1 a day on this beat but of the 5, 4 were in the 18 to 20 inch class. Stunning! The trout weren’t bad either – nothing smaller than 10 inches, most up to 14 inches but one 18 inch clonker. Overall probably the best class of fish we have ever encountered on the rivers.
But a word of caution – is the absence of smaller fish worrying? 3 of the grayling bore the scars of cormorant encounters and a flock of 4 goosanders were also present….

Alas a tough days fishing but better than the office.

Just fished for less than two hours as I was passing. No fish seen or caught.

1 Trout