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Nil return.The river was quite murky and probably still a bit too high. I did provoke one salmon into jumping in the Maddox as dusk was falling but no luck. A few fish showed throughout the day.

Fishing beat with 3 friends. Huge expanse of water after the day before on Escley. River dropping during the day but challenging wading in parts - great care and a stick needed. Only 2 fish - 1 WBT and 1 Grayling. Hatching (and rising) sporadic and in tune with the wind..

No fish caught or seen all day. Nice upland stream though in a nice picturesque valley. Fish must be in there somewhere!

High water but running good colour. No fish caught or seen. Heavy canoe traffic in my defense. Thank you WUF.

4 brown trout in total. No fish taken. Caught on Goldhead, Pheasant Tail Nymph, Klinkhammer,Coch Y Bhonddu.
Great days fishing and stunning scenery - real value for money.

Started early at 8am and fished through until around 1.30pm.
Water was still very cold, which may explain why we only caught 1 small WBT between us. There was sporadic rises to the odd mayfly, but again due to cold temperatures even they are not up to large populations yet. Excellent beat though and can see the potential for catching lots in the right conditions.

River looked good and even saw a fish, so must put down failure to ineptitude on my part..... getting seriously fed up with failure now!!
On a brighter note, there was a good mayfly hatch (despite overcast conditions and cold wind), and I suspect some decent trout were on the move most of the afternoon, particularly on the wooded bank of Vanstone.

Cold and overcast. Nil catch.

Fished this expansive beat with 3 other rods, plenty of water for all. The Wye still quite high and crossing the river below the steps down to the beat not an option.
Nothing much happening in terms of fly life and nothing rising in the morning.

A trickle of flies from about 1.30pm got the fish moving. LDO's and Yellow Mayfly being the most obvious part of this light, mixed hatch. 3 wbt 10"-14" and one muscular out of season grayling of around 13" but very thick and deep set. All took a French Partridge off the top, 3 below the bend half way down the beat, the the 4th at the bottom of the glide at just up river from the steps.

Fish turned off at about 4pm as the temperature dipped. The water dropped by 3"-4" during the day and with an improving forecast the following week some lucky anglers are going to be in for a good time on this outstanding beat.

Two brown trout caught during a short early afternoon rise, both measured exactly 28cms, taken on a grey spent mayfly pattern.