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Just a lovely day on a wonderful beat. This one has become a regular for us. It was a very bright day with water clear enough to put a slide of lemon in. Very little surface activity reflecting a dribbly and varied hatch. Upstream methods were tried and found to be unsuccessful - although on a day such as this it didn’t seem to matter that much. Reverting to downstream nymphs produced a series of takes and eventually a couple of fish, initially at the bottom and then again at the top. Fished the top and bottom but not the middle. All fish to assorted versions of gold head PTN.

Kingfishers, wagtails, dippers, buzzards and all manner of other creatures to keep us company and amused.

2 Trout

Managed to get a grayling to hand but it came off before I'd taken it out of the water. Nothing on the salmon rod

Was not disappointed will be going back very soon

2 Barbel, 70 Chub

A bright day, but most of the river is in the shade. A lot of glare even with polaroid glasses. Fished from 11-5. Gin clear, good flow but quite low - we haven't really had any rain for a few weeks now. Fished the beat upstream from this one a few weeks ago and caught big fish, so I was a little surprised that all of fish this time were quite small. The biggest was about 12".

8 Trout

Lovely stretch of river, and plenty of varied water to fish. The Wye was quite low at 0.29m on the Ross gauge, but there was still enough flow in the pools to swing the fly. Weather was hot and bright but salmon were showing in The Vanstone and Stones pools, some of which were probably residents. I didn’t get any takes until after 5pm but then landed a coloured 28” cock salmon (estimated around 8lb), and hooked another fish that threw the hook with a head thrash. Both were on a small red Francis (size 12) in Vanstone.

1 Salmon

2 anglers.
Steady day, hard to get the fish out onto areas they would normally be on this beat. Managed to tempt some eventually. Fantastic venue to be fishing as always.
After a week on the Wye we'd like to say thankyou to the landowners, fishery owners and the Wye and Usk Foundation for making it possible for us to fish this glorious river.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

We only fished in one swim for a couple hours just up from the woods, we had a few knocks but no fish. It was a picturesque stretch that I would love to have another shot at

Good day, missed about 7.

2 Trout

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Two Grayling (both approx 10 inches) taken on a tungsten bead GRHE. I had a few other tugs, all near the bottom at the end of runs.

No serious rain for a long time so the river was low and clear.

I used a 7foot, 3# rod with a nymph and a spider.

2 Grayling