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1 salmon, about 7th cast of day at bottom of steel steps in lower part of beat. Yellow/silver flying C fished mid-depth, 2ft, positive take on near edge of main flow. About 1 or 2inch of fresh water from yesterday but water still clear. Overcast with upstream breeze causing surface ripples.
Silver fish with sealice on gill covers and flanks, 38in long (96cm) took 20mins to bring to net after several long powefull upstream runs. Had to net land as fish rolled main line around tail as it was brought into shallows. Swam strongly and undamaged upstream on release.
My first salmon, thanks to Donny Macer-Wright for his expert advice and constant encouragement and also to W&U for their weekly report last week which recommended trying The Courtfield and Lower Wye beats which led me being on the river bank that day instead of odd jobs at home!

We had a great time on the Rectory yesterday. There was a good grannom hatch and you were right about the trout quartering the flow in search of the flies - 50% of the time our guess was right! We had some lovely fish - about 20 or so up to 1.5lb. I lost a couple of stonkers (2lb+) that charged off across the river. As the grannom hatch petered out we switched to fishing the riffles with Klinkhammer and small skinny nymph with reasonable success as fish rose to the klinkhammer in the bouncy rough water (knee deep). Olly thought he caught a small sea trout (three quarters of a pound on a klink) although I did not see the fish.... The river then rose quite rapidly and we called it a day.

5 x wild trout: two small fellows and the best three at 15, 16 and 17 inches. A very cold day, with a harsh downstream wind bringing increasing rain (which we badly need, because the sluggish river is full of algae and other muck). Nothing hatching and nothing at all seen rising, so it was good to find a few taking fish.

Lots of fly life, but cool and very windy meaning no feeding activity on the surface. Spent the day nymphing deep in the pools and runs with only one brownie (approx 1lb) caught in the day.

Lovely beat with great access - looking forward to returning on a warm calm day!

Lovely river, fished most of the day, NZ method. Little fly life and no fish rising but it was quite a cold day, with rain showers and gusty wind. No fish caught

4 beautiful Brown Trout all returned, 1 x 12 inches, 3 x 8 inches, all caught on upstream dry fly, rose 3 or 4 more in brigh conditions. Didn't see huge numbers of fish showing, however with a fair amount of fly life on the water there was occasional activity. Will certainly return for another go at some stage of the seasoon. Access to the river not fantastic, however managed to fish all the likely looking spots on the beat.

Good days fishing. Plenty of activity through the morning and afternoon, although the evening got a little quiet.
Fish up to around a pound, mainly in the faster water rather than the flat glides. Lots of salmon smolts evident in the pools and runs. Large dark olives and quite a few Grannom about especially the adults coming back to egg lay in the afternoon and evening. A few fish moving to the dries, fish however mainly taken on small nymphs pheasant tails and hares ears.

Fished 11am - 3pm. Warm, spring day. Water clear and at a good height. Lots of Grannom around and trout rising when I arrived. Finished up with 4 trout from 8"-16", all caught on dry flies. Two from above the bridge, two from below. Nice beat, although deep wading required.

A difficult day with the wind. Very little in the way of sustained hatches. A few dark olives around midday and that was it. No fish rising. Fished nymphs in deep water most of the day. Missed two very subtle takes. No fish to the net. Lovely beat, but just wasn't to be today!

5 trout, 6oz to 2lbs. A reasonable amount of fish rising with sporadic grannom and olive hatches. 1 trout to an olive emerger, the rest to small flash back nymphs fished under a klinkhammer.