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River was low but managed to find the fish although it did involve plenty of searching. NZ style seemed to be the method of the day. DB had an excellent day and great to get DC into his first Upper Wye Grayling. As usual fish were in superb condition with the best Grayling pushing 2.5lbs.

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

Only one angler fished. Caught 2 eels on rolling meat and 1 chub around 3lb on float fished bread. River was very low

1 Chub, 2 Other

A half day session to discover more of the middle section here from the big deep corner pool about half way up the beat itself (short section of some wooden fencing here on the right bank , follow this up the hill a little way and then back down to the wire fence and you can then get over this here ok to the river) up to where the brook comes in by the footbridge and a lovely well shaded section with a good series of riffle / pools here and some very good looking and good length pools too . One of those sections where once your in the water you cant get out easily (or at all ! ) until you get to the brook by the foot bridge but wadeable along edges of pools all the way up to here and you can then get out of the river ok here and walk back down the fence line back to the big corner pool.
A good number of fish where spooked in the tails of the pools.
The water above the footbridge looked very skinny and slow at the moment . The fish to hand went up to about 10inch and all on a 16 black klink'
Lovely !

4 Trout

3 Barbel

2 Trout

Hoped that there would be a touch more water following rain a couple of days ago but river very low and clear . Only fished a couple of hours pm but had two small grayling sub surface in faster water. Saw a Kingfisher by the bridge. Looks good for winter grayling with a variety of water. I'll give it a try again then. Nice beat with some new fencing and access points. Thanks.

2 Grayling

What a lovely place, had two fish on in the little run but unfortunately lost them both in the fight. Salmon moving in all of the pools.

River low and clear but relatively clean, a small flush Tuesday? Saw no trout and no interest in dries or klink/nymph duo, till later in the afternoon the trout looked up. Landed 5 very fit trout at 8" to 10", and missed a couple, on a small grey/blue para. A pleasant day, except at about 6, near the top of the beat, a thickening grey stain appeared from upstream, I do not know where from- no sign of distressed fish and the dippers were still active, but I stopped fishing. Hope its nothing serious.

5 Trout

Fished this beat in Sept 2016 and was looking forward to adopting a roving approach but unfortunately I took a right tumble on the initial descent ( caught my foot under an exposed tree root ) which resulted in a winding , a bruised ego , and a horrible snapping noise that turned out to be a bust rod top section. It wasn't enjoyable at the time but now I've narrated the story to my family their hysterical laughter has proved a tonic. Needless to say I didn't fish but the episode hasn't dampened my affection for the stunning River Wye and I'll return soon.