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Arrived too late I'm afraid, but gave it a go anyway with an hour left of daylight. Access was fine actually except for the barbed wire fence at the start of the beat. There is no gate or stile and requires scrambling out on a tree trunk overhanging the rivers edge to get across which would indeed be difficult for those with reduced mobility/older anglers. Extra care should be taken wading as the river bottom drops off suddenly in sections. No luck today Czech nymphing but I rushed through most of it trying to beat the sunset.
Thank you!

very cold in the water today, wished I had put another layer on ! fished the run in the middle of the beat and could only find the odd fish here and there. went up to the top end and had a bit of difficulty getting out due to water level. but in one spot I did find a shoal and quickly had a few more, and also lost three grayling. went back to the earlier spots... still nothing much happening. in the end I had grayling to 14" and oos trout to 10". its been hard work catching fish this week, and looking at other anglers reports I was not alone ! still it was great fun trying, I really love it over here in wales, and many thanks to WUF for letting me do this.

6 Trout, 11 Grayling

With access proving difficult by the orchard and so ruling out the upstream section we settled for the middle field. The river was reasonably low and clear and the bright sunny day didn't bode well and so it proved. We started in two swims in the upper section of the field but without a bite moved down and found two more swims within the trees. With the light fading one barbel around 7lb or so obliged to a double 8mm halibut pellet and that was the only bite of the day.

1 Barbel

5 Barbel

My son Christopher has wanted to catch his first Grayling for a long time. So we asked the foundation for advice ! They recommended the Upper wye at Abernant, great choice we trotted single and double maggots with a stick float and caught steadily all morning, in total we had 9 Grayling up to a pound and a quarter and 5 beautiful wild brown trout up to 12 oz .as soon as the sun came out about 12 ish ,the bites stopped,so we packed up about 1 .30 an absolutely great day ! Thanks guys for the advice,

5 Trout, 9 Grayling

Outstanding day again. 3 lovely ladies, an oos brownie and a minnow (chub?) landed. Czech nymphing again with old vladi's condom worm as an anchor but all takes on the orange beadhead latex grub in the previous post.

Lots of canoes and kayaks thought I was back in Canada! Saw several very large salmon leaping as well. What a treat is this river - will be back as soon as can. Thank you

1 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Other

River looked good with a bit of water in it,colour had dropped out so had to move about for 2 8LB Barbs and a 4LB Chub. Not a day's bad work.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Not a good day on the fishing, couldn't find a grayling anywhere on the top half of the beat. Undoubtedly employing the wrong tactics. A great day out on the river though.
Two OOSBT swiftly returned.

2 Trout

Great day. Weather perfect, wandered down to church, trotting today, 12 grayling and one old lady estimated around 2lb, very good condition.

12 Grayling

1 Grayling