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River still up running fast. Bright sunshine. 7 BT to 10", 11 Grayling to 12". All cuaght on size 16 Dry CDC Quill

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

4 grayling around 30 centimetre, 1 trout of that length and 1 smaller trout. I was on a beautiful guided day with Oliver Burch and used the wet fly and the spider method.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Beautiful day, river very low. 2 small trout caught and released.

2 Trout

Nil return.

Fished on July 6 and 7, and caught 3 trout and 3 grayling on each visit. Came across a large dead lamprey in the shallows. Would highly recommend the fish and chip shop in Builth Wells too.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Conditions interchanged quickly between torrential rain to bright and clear. This made fishing more difficult especially at midday. Nevertheless fish were caught, the highlights being a 14" trout and 12" grayling caught on spider patterns through the pools lying off faster water.

7 Trout, 6 Grayling

Busy start to the day on my first visit this season to Abernant. Took about 10 fish on a F-Fly in the first hour and a half. Mostly small trout and grayling but a couple half pound fish, but nice to turn up on a river during a good hatch.
However the action stopped dead on the surface so fished New Zealand style and took fish to a pound from the faster water. After 2pm it was very hard to get a bite by any method.
Most the fish here are small but a great fish about 3lb swam straight past me, so they are there!

15 Trout, 20 Grayling

This is an interesting beat with a wide smooth pool tail at the top followed by a a neck of lovely fast water at the head of Lady Alexanders catch then a long slow pool followed by a very rocky section with lots of pocket water. Had 1 small trout in the tail of Lady Alexanders pool then connected with a very decent sized fish ~3 lbs+ , under the trees using an Invicta which steamed off down the Stone Catch, jumped a couple of times and said good bye - behaved more like a sea trout than a brown trout. Then nothing until the evening when an Invicta fished down and across was hit by a really nice grayling of 1 1/2 lbs which was followed by another 6 all on a small brown czech nymph and of similar size before fading light stopped play. This was a shoal of hard fighting, quite substantial fish which were a lot bigger than the 8 oz ones Ive usually caught before. Nice to find such good quality fish on the Wye. Several salmon showed over the course of the day. Not much in the way of a hatch but it was the hottest day of the year so far. NB to fish the Stone Catch you need a wading staff as well as studs on your boots!

1 Trout, 7 Grayling

Pretty much the same as yesterday, not a lot of activity but still a pleasant day on the river, stone throwers came back!!

7 Trout

Another pleasant day on a favourite part of the river. Water low and fishing slow, there really wasn't much about. Could have done without the folk on the opposite bank throwing stones and branches into the river though!!

9 Trout, 1 Grayling