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Fishing with nymphs & wet flies, quite a number of small trout, nothing large, best 1/4 brown and same size grayling.
Really nice beat, will come again.

12 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished on far bank and caught chub to 4lb, all fish caught on boiles/pellets. River was low and clear.

12 Chub

Very poor day. Weather conditions very sunny and hot. No visible fish moving. Fished from 8am til 5pm. Method spinning. No fish taken.

A Very tough day fishing. Wandered all over the beat and fished hard. The weather and moon phase made it obvious that this was going to be the case.
Saw plenty of king fishers, signs of an otter and beautiful surroundings as usual.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

High pressure, sun out all day. River low and clear, fished feeder and pellets very slow until the evening then it came alive. Not the best conditions for the fishing but the right conditions for spending a days fishing at a stunning location. Adam went out his way to help us and put us on the right track, we will be back.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time on a new beat for us. Walked down to the river on arrival and decided to head upstream to try and find the first gully area. Found a swim which looked like it would hold a few fish in the searing sunshine and clear skies.
Had to wait till around mid afternoon for the first few fish, unfortunately I proceeded to loose 6 barbel to hook pulls early on (I don't think they were feeding properly at this stage) and later to a monstrous snag mid river and the rocks close in. The barbel were scrapping like demons and with a straight drop to 6-7 foot in the side, they were boring for the gaps in the rocks under our feet in the clear water. Worth noting for any anglers that braid hook-lengths and barbless hooks would be useful to avoid breaks and, if broken, avoid leaving barbed hooks in the fish. We eventually worked the swim out and the best way to play them which involved walking up the bank a little and getting out onto a submerged rock for a better angle.
Ended the day with a 9lb 6oz fish for me, and 2 7lbers for my fishing partner. The few that I saw close in before they cut me off were 7-8lbers.
Lovely beat, although I can imagine at weekends the opposite bank could get busy with other anglers. At the moment it's a must to stay until it gets dark, as we had pretty consistent action from around 6 o'clock onwards but very little before this as is usually the case on the Wye in summer on low levels.
As always, many thanks to WUF for letting the beat.

3 Barbel

1 small rainbow on black spinner. Many fish rising but not taking. An awful lot of rubbish left by other anglers.

1 Trout

Use the farmers lift, it's a very long walk. All fish caught on small pellets.

7 Barbel, 10 Chub

Trout to half a pound rising to small CDC Emergers. River low.

2 Trout

This covers 4 days fishing on this beat the first week of September. All four days similar; fished approx 11am -3pm, hot sunny and blanks on first 3 days. Fourth day, a lovely 10 inch plump brownie - hope to see it again. Others about 5 inches. This was a rare opportunity for me to fish and am pretty inexperienced preferring to stick with dry fly for pleasure although a considerable distance of this small stream was only just fishable with waist waders. Clearly at times water level is much too high but for me. This was just right although perhaps less than normal. Wide variety of upwings of all sizes but hardly any fish rising. I used an elk hair caddis and black klinkhammer. I guess nymphing would be more productive in deeper stretches. Super wild stream and having lunch on a rocky bit I half expected to see the African Queen come round the bend together with a cigar playing Bogart magic. Meanwhile the world is in turmoil!

3 Trout