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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

River in flood - unable to fish

Great fun for a couple of hours - water level up and a tinge of colour. 13xwbt from 3-7" flicking a #20 goldbead nymph into the obvious places. As suspected a great beat after some wet weather!

13 Trout

Silver hen fish around 12lb. from Llangoed pool taken on size 4 gold bladed Mepps plus two trout, largest a 2lb. fish both on same spinner as salmon. All three fish caught mid -morning within half hour period and all swam off strongly when returned. Slight colour to water and a real push to the flow but the level seemed steady whilst I was there.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

Tough day. River was really too high and coloured. Should be better tomorrow.

2 Trout

Fished from 6pm until 8:30pm, dropping in to likely runs where the undergrowth allowed, which was helped as the grass has been cut along the margins for part of the beat. Plenty of fly life, but few fish rising. That said, I did catch 4 of the trout to the dry, with shadow mayfly or elk hair caddis dry as part of duo. All others caught on the gold head pheasant tail nymph. Slight tinge of colour and still quite low.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

River high and coloured but levelling off from spate when I arrived. Started getting takes on a Toby as soon as the river began dropping around 3.30 but first two came to nothing. The third was a beautiful fresh run fish of around 13-14lb which gave me a merry dance for almost thirty minutes in deep and fast water before coming to the net at the third attempt.

1 Salmon

4 Trout