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11lb clean hen fish caught on No 6 on small irish shrimp fly, late afternoon

1 Salmon

27 x grayling 8-17 inches, 2 x out of season trout 7 and 10 inches, Grayling Steel Blue, Tungsten Hare's Ear, Pink Shrimp. The river was fishable at below 0.60, somewhat coloured with much debris and leaves brought down by very strong winds. A day of two halves: fished dry during the morning with GSB bringing up fish, but switched to heavy nymphs when rises stopped as the weather front and rain came over at lunchtime. Quite a few 14 inch plus fish. A double hook-up on nymphs with a 17 inch and 15 inch fish on together was more than interesting - net the big one first. Finished around 4. A delightful day, despite cool temperatures, with the trees starting to take on full colour. There is nowhere quite like the Irfon at this time of year.

27 Grayling

Hard day. One barbel at 6lb mid-morning to pellet top of first field. River pushing through steadily, plenty of weed about.

1 Barbel

River pushing a bit, swims most like a parrot cage, (difficult to cast or play fish), still managed some that were fishable.

7 Barbel, 7 Chub

River up unable to hold bottom with 4oz feeder fished margins with ground bait feeder and eclipse pellets caught on 14mm glugged Halibut pellets bit disappointed with session but hey that's fishing,love the Wye and will be back to enjoy this beautiful river

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

1 Barbel

2 Barbel

One fish lost in Leaning Willow

14 - 15 lb coloured cock fish on Beat 3 with a "Celtic Cascade"The

1 Salmon

Water back down to a nice height now ( 0.65 )and very clear. Fished indicator and nymphs in the gutter and the pools along the lower stretch. This is my preferred method here, but I notice a lot of people do well on dries but I rarely see any rises at all here even when there are sedges and olives about ! grayling to 16" and trout to 15" but mostly 10"

4 Trout, 12 Grayling