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Water temperature still too low, despite sun on part of the beat and an air temp of 11degC.

Great to be back out on the Wye. Water a little on the high side but colour was good. Salmon proved to be elusive but tried our best with FC's, Devons and a selection of early season flies. Just the 9 polite canoeists all day. Excellent accommodation at Red Rail Farm.

Fished 7.30am to 6.00pm, water temp.6c, air temp 16c, bright sunny day, light wind SW.
Track down the side of the orchard too muddy needed a 4x4.
Parked on the bend in the road. Fished 5th & 6th pegs into the meadow. Barbel & Chub caught on a hair-rig bunch of red maggots with a feeder of hemp and halibut pellets. Trout & grayling on trotted red maggots.
What a lovely stretch of river. On to Preston Court for the final day.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Difficult to find many swims to fish with wind coming into our faces. Couldn't find many swims at all at the top end.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fishing was patchy with fish feeding in short spells, river looked great, all fish falling to pellet.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Three anglers fished three separate stretches of W and U including Courtfield. The river looked in perfect condition but unfortunately the fish failed to play the game. Total catch for all three beats was six chub and one barbel. Hope to do better in August.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

River cloudy, sun was out but very windy! No fish caught or seen. Nice beat with lots of potential. Kingfishers seen and unfortunately a mink in lower weir pool. Fished 9am til 2pm. Will return - many thanks.

Good days fishing, I had to work hard for it though. 4 good condition rainbows on worm, biggest was 2lb.

4 Trout

9 x trout 8-14 inches, Waterhen Bloa, Jingler. The very cold downstream wind is still with us, although the air temperatures are rising - up to 8 or 9 degrees today and sunny most of the time. Large dark olives hatching between 11.30 and 2.30, with a few fish rising to spiders and dry fly.

9 Trout

Ok,if you're reading this hoping for tips and guidance on how to tackle this water them I'm afraid I will be no help whatsoever!
This was my first ever attempt at fly fishing, my companion however is much more experienced than me having been once before. First I'd like to thank the WUF for making the whole experience possible, what a great organisation.
The day was a bright, chilly, very early spring day, the river looked glorious, clear with just a tinge of colour and running through at quite a pace and very cold.
Marc used a pink shrimp looking fly while I opted for a Grayling special and gold headed nymphs, by the end I think I was doing a reasonable impression of someone who knew what they were doing, a very steep learning curve. In all a fabulous day out in a wonderful location but no fish were caught. Maybe next time...