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Conditions similar to Lyepole yesterday. Water high and carrying colour plus a stiff north-easterly to boot. Despite this, I fell in love with this beat, particularly the lower meadow section. Fishing was hard and no trout were caught but patient searching with deep nymphs produced 8 grayling mostly in the 8-12inch range plus one corker measuring 16ins. Beautifully maintained, the lower two-thirds of this beat would be perfect for anglers who may struggle in more difficult terrain.

Stayed at The Croft B & B at Lyonshall which was excellent.
Unfortunately the river was in spate and had to use rover tckets to fish the upper Wye and Irfon.

DC no luck with the trout but a couple of small oos grayling, GC couple of small WBT and os grayling. Cold wind made casting difficult and kept fly life at bay.
Unfortunately there was a CORMORANT working part of the lower beat so an eye needs to be kept out for the black menace.
With the floods a couple of trees have ended up in the river.
The cattle in the first field are very inquisitive so watch your back cast!

Quite a cool afternoon and evening with no real hatch to speak of. Two graying caught, one only a few onces the other must have been pushing 2lbs caught above the bridge in a deep quick pool with heavy sinking hares ear. Fantastic fight. Will be back when its a bit warmer!

Lovely early season day on The Lugg at Eyton. Not fished here before so unsure what to expect. The river from the footbridge upwards is a lovely piece of water, varied, with lots of fishy looking haunts. Started off fishing the duo and rising fish to a dry sedge. As the sun came out so did waves of grannom. At first the only fish showing were young unmentionables. I thought I might be plagued by them until fishing up passed the bridge when trout started taking. A few bends up and I connected with a very big lady, easily over 2lb, who ran all over the place and was shadowed by its equally sized partner. Showing no sign of tiring, she eventually ran upstream and lost me in some tree roots. Being out of season, I'll consider it a long distance release. Fished on until late afternoon. The top stretch above the weir in woodland is well worth fishing. Some deep pools and a few good size trout. Tally for the day was five trout and lots of unmentionables, two of whom I've noted for a return visit.

Rather cold but pleasant day. 5 small WBT caught. Lots of action and quite a few more hooked but not landed, including some large fish: pity!

5 grayling, 0 trout. Weather was perfect for March, no wind and rising to 16c although the water was still cold. The river was at 12in, again perfect for this beat. The water was gin clear and the fish easily spooked. There was a steady hatch from 11 to 3 but the fish were reluctant to rise this early in the season.
We saw a number of very small trout, but the bigger fish were probably still in the depths. The grayling were more obliging - the largest fish was 1.5lb.

Started off misty, bright day; water crystal clear. From bridge to upper weir 3 WBT 6", 10" 14" and 2 OS Grayling 8" & 12"; Klinkhammer and Rambo GH - Spotted 2 WBT 2Lb + mark.

3 Grayling and 1 Trout between two rods for a day's fishing. Nothing of note. All fish returned.

Beautiful area, water clear, weather cloudy, 12deg. Excellent parking, clearly signed in the yard. About 500yd walk to the river. We fished only from just above the top weir to just below the footbridge. I netted two grayling, lost two, one (at the net) which I estimated around a pound and a half. That one on a goldhead hares ear, the others on a tungsten nymph. My partner saw a couple of rises, I saw none. Unusually I caught two more than he did. Certainly a place to go again.