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My first time on the Wye this year, and it was good to be back. The rain en route gave way to a pleasant day - cloudy am, bright sun pm. A pulse of water from the dams went through during the morning. This did not appear to affect the fishing, but made wading difficult; so much so that, in some of the faster runs, it was a struggle to stay upright. 8 Grayling on a Tungsten Endrick Spider from the fast water below the Gutter (the same fast water that I was struggling to stay upright in) during the morning. Nothing from the Gutter, but a nice symmetry in the afternoon, with a further 8 fish on a Klinkhammer from the top of the beat. A good stamp of fish - mostly the sort of fish my old mate Tom Dixon would call "about a pound" - with a couple of bigger fish thrown in

A word to the wise; there is a wasp nest in the bank at the entry point to the very bottom run. Oblivious to it, I slid over it, amazingly without getting stung, when I entered the river. I was a lot more circumspect when I got out

16 Grayling

Fish taken late in the day on a dry - beautiful stretch of river

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

Nothing rising all day. All trout taken on the nymph in the pocket water at the top of the beat

5 Trout

Between my nose and eyes running from all the grass pollen and a strong gusting downstream wind evening dry fly fishing was not happening. Eventually just before dark the wind dropped enough to get two 14” trout on a sherry spinner.

2 Trout

Plenty of fly life though the fish were not quite switched on to them. All 6 fish came from the bottom part of the beat including a couple of decent trout. The other was my hat which after I had gone for an unplanned swim floated off down river but it’s escape was cut short by dad managing to tempt it to take a fly and dragging it back to safety.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Other

4 OOS grayling returned. One looked like it had been in a fight with a predatory bird/mink/otter. Swam off strongly though.

4 Grayling

12 Trout

Water temperature and air temperature both still low. Couldn’t tempt any takes

river low clear and cold, saw plenty of grayling but failed to catch

Fished from about 12:30 to 15:30.

Covered the lower half of the beat (the gullys) Euro nymphing and suspended nymphs with no bites.

Very mild conditions with water temperatures between 8-12 °C, level around 1.1m on Builth gauge and good water clarity. Conditions looked pretty good so not sure what exactly we were doing wrong to get no bites.