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6 Trout

10 Trout, 3 Grayling

River levels low so harder finding the fish. Few rises to dry flies over on the far banks.

4 Trout

49 Trout, 1 Grayling

Very tough day. Both the Wye and Usk are as low as we've known them and we've been coming 20 odd years. And this far up, the Wye is even lower. Still managed 15 fish, 6 on the nymph, the rest on an olive. Two fish in the 1 1/2 lb region.

15 Trout

I went down on an evening ticket and took a rod down for the dries , hoping for some spinner or sedge action. No joy though!
The river level was quite decent though ( fished the rhayader aa water above town the day before and it was astonishingly low!!) and the water was very cold. I guess they where running some water off the Elan reservoirs?
Lovely as ever though down there , an enjoyable evening out.
Advise a wading staff now if fishing the boulder strewn runs!

1 Trout

Lots of surface activity when we arrived but within an hour it had gone quiet. Lots of small fish in the top two pools which is good to see.

Sat down about 2 for some lunch at the bottom of the third pool down and watched a shoal of grayling swimming about taking things off the bottom with the occasional one taking something very small from the surface. The one trout we saw was taking the same flies from the surface but he was too clever and managed to avoid anything small we could show him.

Didn’t go all the way down to the bottom of the beat, the low water made it feel like it wasn’t worth it and we’ve mainly found that to be the place to go when the grayling are about. Gave the top three pools another fish through until it got too dark and cold so called it a day with 8 trout between me and dad. We will be back when hopefully we will have had some rain!

8 Trout

Weather was great and fish were rising but unfortunately not at my flies. Shaun was of great help showing me some tricks and the setup to with the season.

A great beat. River low but fishing still good. Mainly smaller fish but one of 1.5lbs.

Wading trick as rocks so slippery, gravel fine. Beautifully tranquil and will come again...

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Decent fish all taken on weighted GRHE fished under an indicator due to the windy conditions. River very low, much fly life, mainly grannom but also LDO and a few March Browns but very few rises. Dry fly and a/d wet produced no interest. Small fish absent.
The Wye River bed here is treacherously slippy. Both struggling with studded or felt soles. Despite a wading stick I went in twice! Algae blooming in the shallows following sunny weather. Enjoyed.

3 Trout