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Lovely day again but still no rising fish and little fly activity. Decided to try to go through from top run for salmon but water level too high at .86m so had to cast mainly from bank. Used usk grub again and the Willie Gunn tube with no takes.
Hope someone is having better luck as I think I am on the right tactics but haven't seen any salmon at all.
I am writing this Sun 27th April and the river has gone up today to 1.03m and rising with more rain forecast so prospects for tomorrow not looking good.

This is a good beat which is not too hard to wade. Today was miserable, cold, misty and later on, rainy. Nil catch.

1 Trout

2 rainbows and 1 brownie caught on various spinners, all on east bank. Windy, calm, bright, dark, raining and dry!

3 Trout

Day started cold but warmed up, nice cloud cover, no hatch. River almost at summer mean flow and clear, not a fish from 9.30am till 4.30pm.

Cold windy overcast day. Plenty of perch biting but only one overwintered trout caught today.

1 Trout

No fish seen but certainly conditions and fact that there were no canoes (surprising as Easter Sunday, must have been the rain forecast) made for a good day getting used to casting a fly on a far bigger river than I usually fish. Highlight was a session down the Cottage pool in boat with the ghillie Joe.

6 trout on Flying C to 2lbs.

6 Trout

Rain stopped play. Nice beat but blanked.

Blank for salmon, but a delightful few hours fishing down this lovely bit of fly water. Owner Don Macer-Wright (who got one yesterday) was helpful as always. I have an ambition to get a fish out of the Wyebank runs and this time everything looked just about right on a nice "soft" day of cloud. Instead there were some hefty trout hitting the tube in the fast flow to increase the pulse rate for a moment. I sometimes think we should pay some more attention to trout in this part of the Wye and any salmon angler will tell you that there are some really nice ones, right down to the tide. A few grannom and yellow may hatching now. Everything seems to be early this year.