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No catch, few nibbles with 10 second wrestle but aside from that, nothing going

First time I’ve fished this beat so I worked my way down the R/H bank from upper to lower limits. I didn’t see any salmon, although I had one strong pull in Aubreys which stripped line quickly off my reel so that might have been one. It was challenging wading at times, and the trees made for a difficult Spey cast off my right shoulder. I shared the beat with five coarse anglers from the Birch Grove club so had to pick my way around them. I suspect some were in the salmon pools but this was the first time they’ve been allowed to fish this year so I wasn’t going to begrudge them. I’ll probably avoid a Sunday next time though, and will bring the spinning rod rather than the 14’ double hander.

1 Trout

Brown trout and Pike to Marcin Binczewski.

1 Trout, 1 Pike

A few firsts for me today

Firstly; my first time on this beat. A real Jekyll & Hyde of a beat too; with some delightful and accessible water at the lower end (and, by Wye standards, easy wading), followed by some brooding and inaccessible water up river. I only fished from the lower access point up to the Rapids; where there was plenty to keep me occupied from my early start until I had it away at 2:00 pm to listen to the England game on the car radio as I drove home (which I had got into my head was not kicking off until 8:00 pm when I made the booking). I walked up as far as The Orchard. I concur with the beat notes; anything above Llangoed Pool is Salmon water

Secondly, my fist ever Shad. After a fruitless half hour casting a dry to rising fish, I switched to a nymph, and caught a 12" Grayling with my first cast. Another couple of casts and I was into a Shad. It must have gone all of 3lbs; when it flashed in mid-water, I thought I was about to break the Grayling record. In spite of diligently moving away from them, I caught Shad after Shad for the next couple of hours (the 10 "Other" were all Shad). This sequence was broken by a Chub of 3lb plus (which, again, had me thinking I was about to break the Grayling record). A few more Grayling before catching my first legitimate species of the day - a rising Trout, that took a Light Cahill with alacrity. More of the same next cast; which makes me wonder about the rising fish that I failed to catch earlier in the day

Thirdly, the first time for a long, long time that I have caught four different species in a day's fly fishing; the four almost becoming five when a Salmon took a substantial poke at an Endrick Spider just before I packed up

Glorious sunshine throughout. Tres bonne

2 Trout, 5 Grayling, 1 Chub, 10 Other

16lb fresh hen fish caught on Saturday 9:30 at Chapel catch on flying C.

1 Salmon

No fish seen or rising - a few mayflies egg laying into the Gutters.

River un fishable owing to the water being the colour of wet sand with approx six inches of visibility.

Water dropping now below 1ft on llanstephan gauge and clear but nothing seen or caught

No fish today again. Another flood please.

3 Trout