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Great spot this one but the water is very low at the moment. Hot, bright sunshine all day, not much chance of a catch but did every single beat like a numpty!!!! Nice to be out but no bites. Many thanks to Terry for letting me in.

Small trout caught on small pheasant tail missed three. Saw two very nice trout but alas they spotted me too. Still great fun. Thank you.

1 Trout

Three inches on the Ddoll Farm guage but what a difference a day can make to fish behaviour. Compared with yesterday just upstream at Dolgau, we had to put up with incessant bright sun plus a strong downstream wind for most of the day. Even before the wind got up though, the fish weren't as obliging as yesterday, but the wind killed it for sure for most of the day. Some midges were around from the off, a few olives during the day and sedges as usual, but by and large not too many rising fish, and those which didn't rise seemed not too keen to do so either! In spite of this we managed to catch fish on hare's ear and olive emergers and Duck's Duns, Grayling Steel Blue, Elk Hair Caddis and just one on a PTN. Most of the grayling were around 12" with a couple just a tad bigger. Very hard work for sure but not a bad result given the conditions. We tried all sorts of water and found fish in most and seemed to be most successful where there was some shade. Sight of the day for sure was Glyn seeing a large common carp towards the bottom of the beat. Cormorants around as they were yesterday.

2 Trout, 28 Grayling

River was low, slow, clear and conditions were bright and warm. Only fished from 0700 until 1400 as from about 0900 there was a constant stream of canoes and at times, groups of 10 to 20. Most were good and went to the middle to far side but there were enough just coming within 5m of the back to make even fishing 1/4 to 1/3 of the way out impossible at times.
Lovely stretch and will prob go again but more autum/winter when hopefully there will be less traffic. We did manage one 8lb Barbel before the canoes arrived.

1 Barbel

Fished with a fly for salmon for approximately 4 hours with no success at all. Tried a variety of fly patterns - nothing helped. River was very low - some pools almost impossible to fish with a fly as a result due to insufficient flow to make the fly swim.
Beat bailiff was very helpful in terms of fly advice and telling me where to fish, but no fish even seen, let alone caught. Coarse anglers did report one salmon jumping mid-afternoon.

Lovely sunny day but the river was running very low and clear. We fished at the lower end of the beat and after a slow start the fish eventually came on the feed. We stuck with the conventional feeders and luncheon meat or sweet corn baits. We did lose a fair amount of end equipment on snags but that is the Wye for you. A great day with 2 of the chub exceeding 5 lbs and the barbel up to 9 and half pounds. Saw plenty of wildlife including the kingfisher on his territory. This environment on a well maintained beat is what fishing is all about and as ever Colin the bailiff was full of helpful advice.

9 Barbel, 10 Chub

Had a morning session on the Edw above the main road bridge before breaking camp. Very low as expected and it doesn't take long to fish it now as there's very few decent pools! That will all change of course when it gets some rain. The trout where in good nick though so lets hope they hold out a while longer!
The wading's a bit tricky now with the thick algae on the rocks, the usual felt and studs didn't quite cut it today so take care!

4 Trout

Nil return.

Water low and very clear. A few salmon showing but not taking. The same for the Wednesday the 19th.

Another lovely day in a beautiful location with red kites and kingfishers for company. Wall to wall sunshine and a low river meant that only one trout was seen all day, and no opportunity to cast a fly at him. The grayling were rising sporadically but were mainly disdainful of our surface offerings. But they did seem fairly partial to very small weighted nymphs fished mainly duo. We had fish throughout the river in the more turbulent and broken water, with a good number coming as the light dropped - until they simply switched off. Most were in the 11" to 14" range, but we had one fish measuring 19" and two at 16".

31 Grayling