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Loitered in the flat section at the bottom of the beat hoping for some surface action, gave up and switched to Klink and nymph in the tail of the fast water. A 14? trout launched itself out of the water taking my klink with it, managed to land him after one hell of a fight. A 12? trout took the nymph five minutes later.

Worked my way up the best of the beat, a wild river indeed lost of deep swirly pools, ran some nymphs through on long leaders to no effect. More of a salmon beat I think.
Good dry fly section at the top, no activity though.

My real jammed and I couldn?t fix it so I returned to my car to get my spare, sat on the bench on the porch of the village shop and enjoyed a cold drink, if only it was a pub! Returned to the pool below the first stretch of fast water, above the flats. Evening rise started at 8.30 sharp, hooked five on a Tupps landed three.

Overall, bottom section good, top section possibly good if fish are rising. Middle section? Bring a salmon rod.

We both enjoyed 2 good days fishing on the Thursday and Friday and look forward to a return trip. Stayed over at the Green Man and enjoyed a good breakfast. The weather was a touch too windy but generally warm and dry if a little too cloudy for my taste. The fast swims yielded a couple of barbel each (5 in total) all on pellet. We also took a good number of chub to 5 lbs on luncheon meat. The barbel were in very good condition, fought vigorously but were a touch on the small side with non over 6 lbs. We spotted a brilliant Kingfisher to add some variety to an enjoyable event.

This beat never disappoints. Two grayling and two trout of about 10? on the lower section, one on an olive klink the other three on the ptn hanging from it. No massive hatches, trickle of those little yellow jobs throughout the day, yellow may duns ?

All went quite in the afternoon, bright sun didn?t help. Getting bit bored and hot, was it a mirage? Could see a deckchair on the river bank in the far distance? Yes I could! Settled down for a kip in the late afternoon sun to await the evening rise, woken up by a sheep at 7.30, probably complaining about my snoring.

Hooked eight rising fish on parachute adams only landed three, the last one, a cast at maximum distance to the area below the bridge, above my waist in an unexpectedly deep section adjacent to the stone wall by the road, the fish obviously thought such extreme casting warranted a response and obliged accordingly.

Retired to the bell at 10 o clock for a much deserved pint of Wye Valley Bitter.

All first time Wye men and desperately looking forward to it. No disappointment driving over Kerne Bridge and thinking "this is heaven"! 40 frustrating minutes later after deciphering some seriously poor directions we arrived at MHC!

Very difficult to determine where the parking areas are, particularly the "bottom" parking area which appeared to be fenced off although on closer inspection it was possible to get through. A little signage would be of great help!
Alighted in the top parking area and proceeded to walk the stretch. Truly a beautiful stretch of river but access to it is difficult to say the least, bearing in mind we are all experienced Teme men and used to early season jungle warfare prior to fishing!

We found it very difficult to actually walk anywhere near the river on the downstream part of the beat so reluctantly gave up, it would have taken almost the full day to cut any worthwhile swims out and neither were we sure whether we were allowed to?

Walking upstream we found a few (very!)swims that had been cut out and, through Hobson's choice, dropped into them. The upshot was 2 barbel and 3 chub between us, none of any size.

General comments are a very friendly and helpful booking service, profoundly poor directions and signage to parking areas, wildly overgrown banks, more canoes than the South Sea islands but a fabulously beautiful place!

Overall opinion is that the jury's out on the Wye at the moment but we've booked with the Foundation again for 3 days in September so watch this space!

Some good fishing in upper stretches but hardly a thing rising. Water cloudy after rain. 3 WBT decent to a pound returned well and good.

This is possible one the best bag of six wild trout to a single rod in an afternoon of any of the Foundations waters. Actually 12 where caught but only 6 photographed (all returned). They ranged in size from 13.5 inches to 19.5 to the fork in the tail. They were caught on various nymphs of my tying (not good I may add) and on two separate rigs and styles of fishing. They where in excellent condition and when hooked went off like an express train.

Here is a link to photos on Flickr and a little write up from Jari in Finnish and translated to English

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kim%20tribe%20flyfishingwales&w=all&m=tags

When I planned my trip to Wales I accidentally founded Kim Tribes web pages and I realised that I could travel without all my stuff. I have fly fished occasionally 20-years so I thought I would not need a guide, they are for beginners. After a while with Kim I realised that I was fishing with a person who has much to give for everyone. It was first quite new to fish with a person who gives advices and comments all I did. One Finnish commercial says "so good that you can’t say" which suits well the day with Kim. In four hours we got 6 big trout, biggest 49,5cm. This was more than we both thought before the day.

4x Brown Trout - dry fly - between 1-1.5 lbs. All returned safely.

Excellent fishing. Excellent & convenient service with good information.

True to my word I returned to the Ty-Newydd beat yesturday and wasn't dissappointed. I fished the beat between 11am and 5pm and applied the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" approach to my tactics. A grey/white parachute brought 2 x grayling(1.5lb and 1lb) and 1 x brown trout(1lb)to the net within the 1st 20 minutes. A quiet spell of about an hour followed so I moved upstream to the slower water and between 1 & 5pm a constant stream of fish and missed fish followed (1 even snapping my 3lb leader on a big run), the fish (approx 15;a mixture of trout & grayling) netted were smaller specimens all in the 10-14Oz bracket but good fun anyway. All fish were returned. This beat is proving to be one of my favourites and I hope to return again soon.

10 trout caught on gold head nymph, 3 fish over a 1lb, one near 2lb, I have a good photo if you want to see it. Only saw 5 fish rise all day. No fish taken.

4 Chub all under 2lbs, 16 Barbel to 9lb 14ozs (New P.B.). All on Halibut Pellets. The top half of this stretch is well overgrown and difficult to spot the swims, but the river seems full of Barbel of a good average size. All Barbel caught in a busy 5 hour period from dawn to about 10.00 am and then bites dried up (perhaps I had caught them all!). What a great start to the season. Many thanks to W&UF for giving us the opportunity to fish stretches like this.