Feedback & Reports

Again, not a great deal of fly life on the river to report. Plenty of lively salmon parr about..around ten of them getting to my nymph before trout and grayling had a chance. Fortunately all swam away strongly. The faster water produced half a dozen small trout.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling, 10 Other

6 Trout

12 Chub

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

2 brown trout, both returned. River summer level, fly used

2 Trout

Nice to be back on the wye lots of barblets to 3lb some nice chub and an eel, river quite low

8 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

2 Barbel, 7 Chub, 2 Other

Not the best day but still good

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

3 Barbel, 16 Chub, 4 Other

Fishing can be capricious! We were debating whether to go for sewin given recent rain but decided to stick within our comfort zone and stick to the Wye this week. Forecast was spot on – rain in the afternoon – but it was a lovely day when the sun shone. The river looked perfect.... clear and bright, there does seem to be more gravel these days.
There was a continual hatch of olives throughout the day – small size 18 jobbies and also larger olive uprights. The spinners dancing in the evening sunshine were a wonderful sight. This ephemeropteran activity kept the fish on the fin all day and both trout and grayling were on form all along the beat. 45 fish between us has to be our best ever day on passport beats – wonderful fishing. Best trout 18 inches, best grayling 17 inches but most grayling were 14-15 inch pea in a pod typical strong Wye fish, and all safely returned.
Last knockings I returned to fish the top pool where I had a couple of fish in the morning. As usual there were blipping rises where the run in slows in to the deep gully. I put my dry fly over them expecting tiddlers…. It disappeared in to a blip and all hell broke loose, starting with a wrestle – the fish then charged off down the gully, stripping line off the reel. I did catch a brief glimpse of something the size of a small submarine before the hook pulled out! JB also hooked and lost something similar which decided flying was preferable to swimming before the hook came out of that one too.
A previous feedback commented on the lack of trout in this beat. They are there for sure! As are the otters, one of whom surfaced by rocks about 6 feet away from me for a moment – we looked at each other, I don’t know who was more surprised – before she continued on her way.
Oh and more knotweed logged with Louis for spraying.
A superb days fishing – thank you!

18 Trout, 27 Grayling