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5 Trout, 1 Grayling

10lb salmon at 11am in the Rectory Neck to a brownish bottle tube on floating line.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout, 1 Chub

11.45 am Bigsweir (Netting Station), very fresh 12.5lb and sea-liced. Caught on a Dee Monkey brass tube and put up an incredible fight. The water was very dirty.

More like a July or August day - lovely weather but no fly life and nothing rising. This isn't an easy beat. Good to see kingfishers for the first time this year.

Only fished for an hour. My wife had her first Wye dunking! Caught one eight inch trout on heavy nymph before she went off to dry out. We saw two leaping salmon though!

1 Trout

Sunny and warm late afternoon and evening and river running clear. Infrequent rises until the evening rise. 3 small wbt caught on a dry emerger pattern.

3 Trout

This was my first experience of the Kington Wild Beat. As expected it has a similar feel to the top section of Hergest Court. There are some surprisingly deep pools. I had to work hard for my four trout (of 6-10 inches). The weather was bright, warm and still. The river was flowing swiftly and slightly coloured. In several hours I only saw one fish on the surface. Tried a variety of dries and some wets - not a sausage. All four fish came from broken water to weighted nymphs.

4 Trout

Excellent days fishing although very little surface activity. The nymph ruled until 9.30pm when a spinner fall made for good dry fly. Best fish 1.5lb. Most fish around 12oz mark.

16 Trout

Very challening beat, I aged 10 years in the first 200 yards. No flies hatching or Trout rising. Navigation was difficult, I think next time I will take a device to get over the barbed wire fences.

4 taken on spinner main road side. 2 with fly spoon and 2 with Toby.