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My second visit to the Wye for my sins. Have fished this beat many time times and is on the not very difficult scale. Easy parking and now a gate that works to access field. Water level up by a foot but enough colour in the water to make the extremely sunny conditions still reasonable. Most fish due to the weight of water were in lower to middle part of river. Lots of small trout around and a few were rising. Could only connect with one good grayling even though it looks very small in the picture - thats the GoPro I have been using - smallest camera on the market. River levels falling that weekend and all we need is more cloud.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

No Salmon caught. Weather—heavy persistent rain with gusting downstream winds.

Pretty 14 inch Grayling. Plus a couple of trout to 12 inches. We fished this beat last year, It was almost unrecognisable the river was 3ft up this year. Still great fun. But made wading a bit tricky with the extra flow.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Rivers too swollen to fish. Will try again next year!

Rivers too swollen to fish. Will try again next year!

3 Trout

8 x trout to 12 inches, spiders. Plus lots of parr and even a late smolt.

8 Trout

A fine day weather wise, although a strong, gusting wind made casting difficult at times.
Lots of small fish moving but we failed to land more than 2. We did see a fresh run salmon of about 8lb jump in the Abernant pool.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Having fished the Edw for two or three hours in the morning, I headed to Abernant at about 11:30. I was hopeful the fishing would be better which indeed it was, the downside being that this very open stretch was much more exposed to the stiff northwesterly breeze that made any upstream casting very difficult. But I had some success with nymphs and spiders fished down and across. Almost all the fish came from the slightly more sheltered upper half of the beat. Though mostly small, there were some cracking fish among them in really lovely condition. The best was just over a pound and came to almost the last cast of the day at the very bottom of the beat. There were two very amiable chaps, both of whom took a keen interest in what I had (and hadn't) caught. Needless to say, they had stories of the huge fish they had seen rising only the other day!

There were a very few mayfly hatching which makes very little sense to me. What would be the point in hatching if so few other mayfly are at it at the same time? I should have thought, like fishing, it's all about being in the right place at the right time.

11 Trout

6 Trout