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Good water level, and even good colour, surprisingly, as rain was only the day before. There were a few hatches of blue olives and I saw a few yellow May duns.
The wind was the real problem. It howled downstream making casting near impossible. I use a heavy rod on the Wye, an 8 weight 2 hander with heavier line, but it was useless much of the time. In the few brief moments there wasn't a wind I caught 7 trout to 1 1/2 lb and lost one about the same size.
As in previous comments, I did not see a single salmon of any kind, no parr, no smolts,no grilse.... nothing. It's looking very much like the end of salmon fishing to me....

7 Trout

Pretty dead all day then showed a bit of life around 19.00.
Caught both on spiders. - not large but at least it wasn't a blank day

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

7 Trout, 11 Grayling

Tough day, low water and long periods of sun. One good grayling and a small trout landed on nymphs.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

3 Trout

Did not fish, after two hard days I was deflated flat and could not see where a fish was coming from

What has gone wrong. Salmon fishing was always hard but this is ridiculous, I/we have put in so many hours of effort and for what nothing . If we were bad anglers that may explain it a bit but we are not. In nearly 50 years fishing I have not seen it this bad, we have had good water at the right times, supposedly lots of fish waiting to come up . WHERE ARE THEY ?? I am so demoralised I feel like putting my rods away .
As you can guess nothing caught or seen, as usual these days

River was running at twice the summer level which meant a strong flow of water pushing through. This wouldn’t normally have been too much of an issue but a strong gusting down steam wind hampered casting. DC managed the two trout, one at 6” and the other 8”. He also got bust by a good fish as well.
My sorry effort resulted in three long releases and three or four strong tugs on the nymphs. I did manage to foul hook a minnow though, poor little bugger.

2 Trout

No good