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It's official. The weather forecast is CRAP!! I booked today as there was the promise of some rain at least. Whilst I wasn't expecting a spate, I'd thought the 'thundery rain' promised in the Wye catchment, would raise the water a bit and create some excitement. How wrong I was! There was the merest drizzle for about 5 minutes.
Having said that, there was a moderate showing of fish, in particular the trout that were leaping about, but sadly no larger cousins.
I did however catch a shad. A fine fish of about 1 1/2 lbs. I've had encounters with them before and seen several in the Wye. Photo attached.

7 Trout, 1 Other

River low. Only fished two hours due to holiday commitments. First time I have fly fished for 20 years - I am more at home with bream & roach on Norfolk Broads. Nevertheless, had a nice chub of around 4lb on a weighted black & green nymph and a grayling of 12oz on a fly which I can only describe as pink & white (sorry I do not know the name). I wish we had a river like this in my native Suffolk.

1 Grayling, 1 Chub

extremely hot with nothing happening at all . I picked the wye as if the trout were not playing ball the grayling may be! epic fail. lovely day though and the wye as always nice to fish. trout between 8-10 inches the two grayling both about twelve inches

9 Trout, 2 Grayling

Very warm and sunny with huge hatches during the day. Windy conditions made it challenging but managed multiple very small brownies and one of around 1lb on dry fly and 2 decent grayling (1 on nymph).

today was a very poor day... Yes, it was bright and sunny which fish don't don't like and very windy (upstream of course), but there was no hatch of fly and no sign of rising fish. My day is usually filled with my incompetence in having takes which I fail to capitalise on, but not today. There were almost no takes. I caught a couple of small trout, and again, there was no sign of salmon.

2 Trout

Water height and clarity looked good, but sadly no salmon encountered, seen or even suspected!

This was a surprisingly poor day. I usually find that overcast and stormy conditions can lead to hatches of fly and general activity. Sadly this didn't happen. There were a few yellow Mayflies, (not yellow May Duns) and I saw 2 large trout porpoising. No sign of salmon though. I really thought that after the rain in June fish would have been brought to the upper reaches. I've seen just one salmon this year, and that was on the Usk.

2 Trout

River at 1'5 running clear. No Salmon caught or seen. Thank you.

7 Trout

Water was a little higher than the last time I fished after all the rains we've had recently. Still managed to have a great day but had to work hard against the current haha!
Also managed to catch a decent sized chub which was a strange surprise.
As always, the PTN a great choice on this river when fished correctly and anything with a touch of pink jiggled a bit sends the grayling mad.

Thanks again W&UF, I still can't believe the access to great fishing you guys provide for such a reasonable budget.

16 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Chub

Did not fish