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The first time we had thought the Wye fishable for us trout ticklers this year…. Turns out the river was lower than expected. The walk from the car park through the wood down to the river was stunning with wild flowers out.

Getting down to the river the first job was to release the female yellow may dun from the spiders web on the entry gate. Fish were rising on the tail of Bachawy pool so in I went whilst JB went off upstream to fish Ciliau run up by the hut.

I rose 4 fish to a size 14 dun parachute but not one of them stuck! Got out after an hour or so and went up to see how the competition was doing. 3 trout to hand… but fish were still rising yet apparently uncatchable. We sat down to work out what was happening… we had seen occasional mayflies plus yellow may duns, olives and what I suspect were autumn duns… but less conspicuous were the pale wateries. I had just the fly in my box so on went the size 16 yellow bodied pale dun parachute … and 3 of the uncatchable fish were undone! Two came to hand, the third one having shown me what a nice fat fit fish he was took me around a rock and broke me.

The cloud broke to clear sunshine by the middle of the afternoon and that put an end to rising fish. We had anticipated being pestered by OOS grayling but only one showed up, an immaculate 15 incher. All the trout were fat strong and powerful … 7 fish between 8 and 15 inches was a fair day.

Great to see a shoal of shad showing off in Armies pool too … subtle they are not!

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Thank you for advice on the telephone pointing me and my friend to available fishing at late notice.
Fish were rising throughout the beat and three were caught early to mid-afternoon, the best being about a pound and a quarter. All were taken on dry fly.

3 Trout

Fish in great condition, and safely returned.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

No Fish caught or seen

1 Trout

1 Trout

One 9 oz trout caught in the wood stream on a may fly nymph. May flies hatching during the evening rise.

1 Trout

bright sunshine - not a lot of fish activity on the river - nothing caught

It was dry fly fishing day. All fish were returned back into the water in very good condition.

9 Trout

Always great to get back up here for a session on these cracking fish, arrived early to find a very light wind blowing across from the Christmas tree bank, fished the opposite side & picked up a couple each, but the wind wasn't to easy on us. Moved round to the Christmas tree bank & had a really good spell got another 15 fish between us before retiring for lunch. Picked up in the same spot after lunch & caught another 10 between us, finished the day on 29 fish, really great conditioned & well coloured fish, & they were a bit larger than the usual average here, so a great day's sport, & hopefully be back soon for some more, a mix of small drys & traditional wets did the business.

29 Trout