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Fished early morning until lunchtime. Hooked and lost 2 salmon, second one mid teens in weight. All very frustrating - still waiting for my first Wye salmon.
Other salmon showing and it would appear there are plenty of fish in the beat today. Water visibility no more than a couple of feet so if it clears a bit more tomorrow could be very good indeed.

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8 Brown Trout 1 Grayling - 8". Largest BT was a good 9" rest 7" and under. Good day even leaky with leaky wellie.

Well I thought conditions should have been perfect - shows what I know. Fished early and late but only two trout and two shad caught. Of Salmon - no sign at all.

A short visit due to copious amount of rainfall. Managed to catch and return 2 trout about 10" and a small grayling on a wet(!)Partridge & Orange.

We had 3 rods on the Abernant beat and three rods on the Pwll y Faedda beat between 6 of us. An excellent sunny day.
Abernant catch: 10 trout and 2 grayling caught mainly on goldheads and czech nymphs. Biggest trout about 1lb.
Pwll y Fedda catch: 5 trout, 7 shad, 1 chub and 2 grayling. Shad were up to 2lb.
A variety of flies were successful including goldhead ptn and black spider patterns. Never caught shad before and interesting that they were only caught on the Pwll y Faedda beat. No fish taken. Water temperature was very high.

Grey & overcast, chilly with gusty cold wind at times. Fish rose most of the day except from 4.00 pm until 6.00 pm. Took 10 - 15 trout to 10" & 8-10 grayling similar size. Mainly on dries although the bigger trout took the nymphs often tied with a bit of sparkle. Excellent day, had to ring the changes & fish hard but rewarding & v pleasurable.
NB we fished here last week (26th) when it was very windy & had similar results ( except caught 1lb + chub on nymph) until the river was turning green with leaf debris & the fish went home!!so we took the hint.

Conditions looked possible so I went in hope rather than expectation. A 5lb cock fish on the fly was a surprise but a pleasing reward for optimism.
Add to that; a couple of shad which I thought were Salmon takes, (I hadn't realised Shad ran so far up the river),a mid afternoon pair of decent trout and two OOS Grayling on nymphs. All made a fascinating day of 4 species.

Fished the afternoon to mid-evening. Following what has proved to be a very rare event so far this season, the river was up and coloured after Thursday's rain (but cleared somewhat after 6p.m. to permit some safer wading in the tail of the top section). Pretty windy, as usual this month, and not too much fly about apart from a few yellow mays throughout the afternoon and into the evening, although seemingly too few for fish to be interested in real or artificial YM emergers. Some E. danica mayfly from late afternoon, and more fly in the evening including what appeared to be some pale wateries/spurwings, and BWOS and sherry spinners - but fish showed little enthusiasm to rise - basically just a few oncers. Ten trout to 12 inches and five grayling to 13" taken on flashback HE nymph, super pupa, reed smut and a larger black F Fly. Oh and one shad of about 1.5lb on the nymph! Please Mr Weatherman, help the gardeners, farmers and fisherman and bring on some real rain ASAP and lots of it!

Slightly more sheltered; but wind cold and upstream. 3 trout & 1 grayling all 10-12 inches. Packed in when the drizzle set in for the evening. Lovely stretch, with a good variety of water.