Feedback & Reports

Arrived slightly despondent from the day before but found this stretch rather more enticing. Fishing with various nymphing techniques failed to produce anything, a switch to Grayling Steel Blues and Griffiths Gnat brought five hard fighting and very quick recovering Grayling between 8 & 14-15 inches from the right bank bend at what I think would be an island in higher water a couple of hundred yards up from the bridge. Not a huge bag I know but they saved our weekend ! We both thought a return to this beat in the trout season could prove interesting.

5 Grayling

I have only fished small streams for the last two years so it took a bit of getting used to fishing something larger. A great day despite having to battle against a chilly downstream wind and a large number of leaves in and on the water. Caught two Grayling, one of which was about 14" and a nice OOS trout of about 15". All fish were caught on tungsten beaded nymphs with a bit of red or pink in and were caught in fast, shallow water. Frustratingly I must have lost close to 10 fish including several that took a dry fly. I can't help but wonder if it was just one of those days or if i was a bit rusty and doing something wrong. Saying that, catching a few decent fish on such a nice stretch of river at this pleasant time of year was all I needed.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

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

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.