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Great day on the river, 38 inch long and slightly coloured fish. Estimated at 23+lb. It was taken on a gold hammered spoon single hook, and 9ft cane rod, it was fantastic scrap with lots of head shaking and jumping. Also 5 shad and a small brownie. Regards to DH for the usefull advice, who left 10 minutes before the show!

1 Salmon, 1 Trout, 5 Other

Fished the home waters on the middle Wye today (12 degrees air and water) from about 10-3 pm. Found fish midging in glides at arrival, seeming to be monopolised by 8” grayling, several of which took a small HE parachute emerger. Then there were some thin hatches of Grannom, LDOs and either MBs or LBDs (couldn’t get one close up enough to distinguish but they were one of the two) from about 11.30 until 12.45, which got a few fish active up top. I had five trout 10-14” and five ladies 8-12”, mainly on the HE parachute and a couple on a Universal Baetis Ducks Dun. I also saw some hawthorns for the first time this year (also reported from the Usk today).
I thought I heard a rise in the margins behind me at one point and turned around to locate the “rise” only to see an estimated 12lb hen pike with two men in tow coming up river to spawn . They were so preoccupied, they didn’t see me untiI I was almost on them trying to take some pix. Sex has a lot to answer for (as the growing shoals of resident chub and barbel also testify)!
Found a bonus, dead heron as well, so some feathers have gone into a bag in the freezer - more Kites Imperials!
A fun few hours but still very hard fishing. The prevailing cold winds just seem to be killing it. Hopefully the rivers will soon really wake up, though Monday and Tuesday’s forecast cold weather seems unlikely to help?

Cracking Spring day on the Wye, water nice colour perhaps a little high. No fish seen or caught thanks to Mike and Phil for their advice, lovely water and lots of it.

1 Chub

Nil. Thanks to Mike and Phil for their advice.

Pleasant beat with easy access to the water which had a reasonable flow. One salmon showed in the nearby pool but not a great day for fishing as temperatures reached 26.5 in the afternoon. Caught 4 Shad which fought well- all returned.

4 Other

Spinners pealing off sporadically throughout the day with the occasional trout rising. A few tugs but unfortunately nothing brought to net.

Enjoyable day but no sign of any fish on the stretch.