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A cold day with an Easterly wind which is never a great ingredient for a successful day's fishing. However it is always great to spend a day on the majestic River Wye.
Fished a number of pegs but no real success, nothing really happening with different baits. In the end the most successful method was trotting with maggots, accounted for the 2 trout and 2 really nice Chub.

2 Trout, 5 Chub

As there has been no rain to speak of again this October, I thought I'd try my luck here as the season goes on for another week. I'd hoped that salmon had reached here and there would be a chance. I saw not a single fish of any species all day. The bedrock that is exposed is difficult to traverse and in higher water would be lethal! MD signing off for another season..... :(

Very hard day with one pike to show for our efforts. Beautiful stretch with cracking beats.

1 Pike

Enjoyable day on Abernant. A blustery upstream wind may have slowed activity but we caught fish throughout the beat mainly on bugging tactics. Mostly small 9-10 inch grayling
Two at 16 inches and a brown trout of around 2lb.

6 Trout, 9 Grayling

A colder day with an east wind so the fishing was a little more difficult than expected. Fished the beat up and then down with wet flies. Caught a couple of 12" grayling in the Glaslyn Flat.

2 Grayling

Very cold start to the morning. Approximately 20-25 grayling taken from the lower weir where it enters into the large pool largest around a lb and half. Managed to pick a couple more out further up the beat but water was very low and slow. All fish were caught czech nymphing

1 Trout, 29 Grayling

A lovely day at Lyepole, sun came out and a bit chilly, fished for a couple of hours on wets, nothing happening, changed to dry as saw lots of rises as sun warmed up, 3 small grayling, and 2 small trout, all in beautiful condition, my first grayling too, will come again, water very clear, only downside, ripped knee of my waders on barbed wire, grrr

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

Fished 3 swims in the first field. Nothing. Very disappointing days fishing in lovely surroundings.
Ran into 2 foreign speaking men spinning. I asked if they had a permit but apparently they didn't understand English.
They disappeared. Highlight of the day was watching an otter feeding in mid river in daylight. Last day of 5 days fishing. Stayed at the Falcon House B&B at How Caple. Ideal for all WUF waters between Ross and Hereford. Well recommended.

River quite low but not as low as it has been and there was a little bit of colour to it. Both anglers predominantly used feeder and pellet tactics. Angler 1 caught three barbel of 4lb 1oz, 8lb and 6lb 3oz all from about half way along the beat in the mid-afternoon. The other angler lost a good barbel and caught a 4lb chub from the top end of the beat and then had 6 small chub and 2 dace trotting maggots. Plenty of bird life including long-tailed tits and kingfishers and several salmon jumping. Not the fastest-paced fishing action but with three barbel that fought like the devil possessed I'm certainly not complaining. Lovely day, thank you.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub, 2 Other