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Great beat, caught one and had three takes which managed to wriggle off my barbless fly.

1 Trout

1 Trout

Water high and coloured. Fished weighted nymphs for four fish to 1.5 lbs

4 Trout

not much happening at surface so opted to nymph. wind was very strong and played havoc with tip of fly line. so with utter disgust stuck on a bite indicator. this helped no end keeping the flies moving through the feeding lanes. water up a little and slightly coloured all trout between 7-16 inches and the grayling between 6-14 inches. all taking size 16 3mm tungsten bead baetis nymph. nice few hours on the lugg

16 Trout, 6 Grayling

River is still slightly coloured. The extra water improved the fishing with most trout taking the nymph. Nice fish up to 13" caught. Only fished the first few pools from the bridge upwards over lunch time.

10 Trout

4 Trout

The real purpose of the day was to practice casting. Had a very enjoyable morning, much improving techniques. Had a good afternoon with a switch rod, catching lovely couple of brownies to finish the day. Rained from lunchtime onwards, water was high and not helped by very persistent rain for much of the afternoon. thoroughly enjoyable day,

2 Trout

Started with river at 2' seemed to be clearing a bit, rain came in later, slight rise again. Getting to know this beat more possibly not ideal conditions today, but maybe same height with more clarity in future could be worth a shot. Enormous fish jumped in the furthest end of the tail of the Orchard, could see it and matching splash from maybe 200 yards up the river, would love to know how big it was. Fingers crossed this coming week will see a decent number of fish caught in the upper wye beats. So great to see the river surging through once again.

1 Trout

River high and coloured for my annual visit! Muggy with hazy sunshine and drizzle blowing in the wind. Nearly didn't fish. Didn't fancy crossing the river so couldn't fish top of beat. Tried nymphing down walkway with no result. Walked down to bottom of beat and delighted to find fish rising. (To emerging sulphur Mays?) Picked off several with emerger Mayfly and spent pleasant few hours casting to rising spotties, landing 9 and losing or missing as many again. All takeable with best over the pound mark. Kept 2 for breakfast.

9 Trout