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No takers, river carrying a fair bit of colour and high.

Taking a guest out for the day it was more of a casting lesson than properly fishing, although conditions were perfect. After getting him going I followed him down... 10 minutes in, he looks stressed, playing with his set-up, I wade out and walk down to find two gigantic birds nests in the line! Accidentally turning the drag right down and casting - I'm sure you get the picture. Too tangled to carry on, we shared a rod for another couple of hours. Saw a fish roll in the Orchard.

No fish to report but a good day nonetheless. Night stopped in the Castle Hotel in Talgarth, very reasonable.
Thanks WUF.

My guest Simon Toms caught a 11lb coloured fish from the Chapel Catch on his first trip to the upper Wye. One happy man.
I on the other hand got chased by cows and fell down the the bank giving me a rather impressive bruise!

1 Salmon

2 Trout

One fish lost in the Chapel Gutters. Conditions perfect

A productive couple of hours, 3 fish a 9lb cock fish from Dolmeudwy then an 8.5lb hen from the orchard both on Usk grub followed a couple of casts later by an angry cock fish of 20lb on a small cascade.

3 Salmon

River 1' 8" on the Llanstephan gauge with a little colour. Started fishing at 1pm in quite pleasant weather apart from a gusty downstream wind.
Grayling to 14" with most about 8" (and 3 shotts). Best trout 12" and one salmon parr. Team of three flies: beadhead GRHE on the point, snipe and purple and Hancock' pet on droppers. Most fish took the S&P. River rose noticeably at about 4pm at which point I called it a day.

3 Trout, 22 Grayling, 1 Other

Water was at a good height and falling but nothing seen or touched.

Fished Dolmeudwy and the Orchard late pm at 2ft 10ins approx. Water clearing but lots of leaves and general debris evident. Saw a salmon head and tail mid-stream in lower Dolmeudwy and a one jump lazily at the start of the Orchard. Mid-Orchard a salmon then made a surface lunge quite aggressively for my Ally tube, made serious contact and pulled line but then pinged off. Fished the pool down a second time with a different fly but had no more sightings or contact. By then the light failing and atmosphere becoming cold.