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Lovely location, easy to access at the Green. Map good.
River low and clear. As described, wading is difficult due to rocky bottom, particularly at gullies. If the river level was higher great care would be needed.
No fish seen, not a rise, a tug or a flash. Where do they go in these conditions? I mostly fished small nymphs as no rises seen. But I would try it again if I travel to this area in the future.
2 kingfishers seen and a squirrel swam across the river. Never seen that before.

Fished for grayling instead, river on its bones

Just fished the channels. Trout to a lb and grayling over 2lb. Dries and small nymphs

6 Trout, 12 Grayling

Ok so today was a good example of how the fishing experience could be improved. I think more up to date detailed info on the beat is a good starter and for different water levels. So the water was really low which really ruled out most of the top half of the beat which can only really be accessed from going over the bridge and round the house. The lower half looked great and is a big long channel. I clink and dinked it and rose one big trout but that was it. I found one bit of fast deeper water and lost a trout with the euro rod.

I clink and dinked much of the upper section with no interest. Returning to the euro set up I found two bubble lines on the other side to the house with some deeper water and managed one fantastic grayling and a lovely brown. I lost two more. Wading is definitely tricky even with the water low and I used my wading staff as the persistent rain meant I couldn’t see the big rocks. The wading on the lower beat is also tricky - ridged undulating very slippery bedrock. Also the lower beat suits left handers better from a casting perspective.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Bright sunlight and low water made challenging conditions. I couldn't locate a trout and surprisingly there were none in the faster heads of the pools. I did find plenty of grayling feeding with very subtle rises. Most were happy to take a small F fly or black klink. The best in the net was a 19" hen which was probably not far short of 3lb. I lost my footing and took a plunge, but drying out in the warm sun was not too much of an ordeal!

13 Grayling

3 Trout, 6 Grayling

Nice place, very slippy wading

4 Grayling

Bright sun, a gusting downstream wind, and a low, clear river, when I arrived de bonne heure this morning. In spite of the low river, I still find the wading at the bottom of this beat plenty scary enough. With nothing rising, and very little fly life, I started with a nymph, picking up a Grayling more or less immediately. Fish then started to rise downstream of me, tantalisingly out of reach. A braver wader might have bagged up; not me though, I managed a couple more Grayling on a Klinkhammer, before moving off those horrible, slippery rocks, and making my way up river.

Not much activity in the Gutter. Up to the top of the beat after lunch. Again, not much fly life, but the odd fish rising. Still on a Klinkhammer, I caught fairly consistently, a combination of casting to rising fish and fishing the stream. This all changed in one run near the bottom of the top of the beat (if you get my drift) where, in a 30 minute purple patch, I must have caught a dozen plus Grayling, practically a fish a cast. Seldom, if ever, have I know fishing like it - it was as if every Grayling in the Wye wanted to meet Mrs Moulder's little boy in that half hour. I cannot explain why; the run itself was fairly nondescript and, as far as I could tell, nothing much was hatching.

A few more Grayling from upstream before having it away home for my lovely wife's beef casserole in Old Peculier and a bottle of Shiraz. A very good day, I hooked just about every fish that rose, with very few long range catch and releases. Let's call it 25 shall we; mostly fish in the 9-10 inch year class, but a handful at 12 inch plus, and a couple of 14 inches. Tres bonne

25 Grayling

Trout active after rise in water lvl

10 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very quick mid morning fish. River level low and strong nw wind. Not much rising but landed 2 and missed 2 all from small pockets to small dries/Adams Klinkhammer's. Lovely spot, excellent directions.

2 Trout