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A lovely beat which requires some route planning across the rocks to make the most of some cracking pools and glides! The fish were reluctant to show themselves so nymphs were the order of the day. Things started well with a couple of good trout to the net but then a couple of canoeists came splashing their way through my swim!!! Needless to say things went quiet for a while! It was late afternoon when the next fish came to the net and worth the wait it was too a nice grayling of about 1.5lb which took a cased caddis on a quick retrieve, this was soon followed by a few more small fish. All in all a nice day with a few fish on a lovely stretch of water what else can you ask for!(no canoes lol)

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Lovely day to see out the season for me. River cool and clear with low mist on arrival. Slow fishing with most trout tiny but perfect setting and day. 2 trout at a more respectable 10 inches and one of these took a Para Adams to cheer me up. Most of the rest on hairs ear and pheasant tail nymphs. Larger grayling 12 inches.

10 Trout, 2 Grayling

River low but easy & accessible wading. Weather warmish for late Sept, cloud & sun am and overcast pm. Some fly life but hardly any fish rising through the day. Managed to eventually rise a couple of fish to a dry but unable to connect. Lots of small juvenile WBT caught, just a couple over 10 ins, all returned. All on small size, tungsten GRHE and black nymph patterns.
Very enjoyable last hurrah of the season, thank you WUF.

20 Trout

River v low but v good day weatherwise. V little fly life, with few fish rising. All trout were small with biggest only half pound. Grayling were 8-9" fish taken on small dries. An enjoyable - if not the most productive day, in fabulous surroundings.

25 Trout, 5 Grayling, 1 Chub

Trout caught on GRHE pattern nymph. No surface activity.

1 Trout

River low, but made wading easier on some pools. Trout caught on home tied black bug, and GRHE nymphs. Nothing rising.

2 Trout

My first time on the beat. Not a good beat for a man who drives a Hairdresser's car - with the turning around of said car in the parking area being a spectacle deserving of a wider audience. A pleasant day on a low clear river. Like other correspondents, I can confirm the Gromain beat is full of small fish; with the faster water at the bottom of the beat producing all but a fish a cast throughout the morning. Mostly small Trout and Salmon Parr. Some of these fish were seriously small - I must have caught bigger Minnows on South Newington brook as a boy. Concentrating on the deeper water above the hut produced a some better Grayling in the afternoon. In spite of a sunny afternoon, next to nothing on the top - with everything falling to a tungsten nymph.

20 Trout, 6 Grayling, 10 Other

Day was planned to target grayling on another Upper Wye beat having fished Pwll y Faedda and Abernant over the past week.
Used a small wispy brown fly (not sure what) and had 6 wbt in the 1st hour - all 6" or smaller. Persisted with dry fly all morning searching for grayling from the hut to the top of the beat with not another fish. Did have an otter playing around and staring at me at one point.
Chatted to the other rod on the beat at lunchtime who had been catching steadily all morning French nymphing.
Reluctantly switched from dry fly to a small tungsten hares ear and searched the faster water below the hut to above the bridge. Ended up with at least 25 trout and 2 grayling. Most of the trout were small but two were 10 - 12" and both grayling were 12".
Gromain is stuffed with small trout - which bodes well for the future.

25 Trout, 2 Grayling

River running low and clear so I decided to use a French nymphing set up. I lost count of how many fish caught after a while, so numbers estimated. The majority of the fish were small but with a few around 10"-12". Most took a size 14 copper tungsten head hares ear. Catching lots of juvenile fish is not really my thing but it was perfect for practicing long leader nymph fishing, which is a new style of fishing to me.

35 Trout, 10 Grayling

Fishing with nymphs & wet flies, quite a number of small trout, nothing large, best 1/4 brown and same size grayling.
Really nice beat, will come again.

12 Trout, 1 Grayling