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Seemed like a perfect weather day, misty start followed by sun with little breeze. Water peaty coloured, possibly from the tannin in the falling oak leaves. Plenty of those!
Fished from 7.30 to 11.30 then from 14.30 to 18.30 on the whole beat where wading and casting was easiest. Or rather, I practiced my casting for those hours. Tried all the dries on the menu and a few nymphs but not a single take.
Highlight of the day was an otter staring at me from about four feet away but he didn't offer any advice. Just a nice day to out there.

Good day on my favourite Wye beat. Most of the fish taken on dries throughout the day. Biggest fish was a grayling of about 18". An otter gaves us a fleeting visit around lunchtime, but it didn't affect the grayling rising within the pool.

3 Trout, 12 Grayling

River a little low and sun very bright. No sign of fish rising, tried a range of methods, NZ with a bright gold head resulted in a number of small finger length trout. Think I need to practice a bit more. This is a super place to fish and will return next season, hopefully when more water in the river.

The weather was perfect but the river was very low and gin clear. Some sporadic hatches but no real interest shown by the trout or grayling. It is late in the season, but I expected to see more activity given the warm weather and overcast sky. A very pretty stretch of river but with very difficult wading in parts.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

The awful weather persisted. Strong downstream wind made upstream fishing impossible and wading adventurous as the wind threatened to unbalance me into the river.
I fished late pm only when the rain finished and took an excellent chub of 2-3 lbs on GRHE. Some rising fish under the far bank but I could not drift a dry fly over them due to the wind. Casting and mending impossible (for me).

1 Chub

Stunning location, fish taken on dry and nymph. Enjoyable day fishing even though it rained continually.

3 Trout

Caught and Released 1 WBT about 1/2 pound, using a dry Daddy Longlegs. The river conditions were quite good, there was quite a lot water due to the recent rain.

1 Trout

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

A stunning location and even with the river running very low it should be full of fish. We covered all of the white water with Klink & dink (PTN) but nothing at all, even in the pools which are deep and slow, nothing was moving and nothing was seen. We ended up pulling out three small fingerlings 4/5 inch's for a full days fishing. Plenty of Dippers and Kingfishers, we even found a dead dog Otter. He was fat and very dead so maybe he ate everything and died of a full stomach. It deserves to be full of fish, its a stunning location, well oxygenated water and long swims and deep pools. Unfortunately, like us the fish where off on holiday the day we turned up.

3 Trout

Challenging but enjoyable fishing. River low in places and very bright - combined with the first chilling of autumn provided few rising fish. Would recommend fishing the lower section later in the day where sun falls and there is more fly life.
We recorded six cormorants feeding in the middle section.
Quite stunningly beautiful scenery in which to fish - one of the country's gems. Other river users, walkers etc, very polite and considerate.

1 Grayling