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Two shad caught on a Cascade fly, size 12, 35cm & 25cm length, returned unharmed. Also a brown trout about 2lbs took Cascade! No salmon to be seen.

1 Trout, 2 Other

Fished all the beat that would take a fly before turning to the spinning rod, for where it was running out of water a bit. A few fish showing in different parts of the beat but one silver fish showing repeatedly in the middle of rock took my eye. It had been fished past a few times during the day without success, so I decided to wait for the sun to move. Woke up on the bank when it went cold with cloud cover, three casts and it was on, a 16 pound bar of silver. Shame it was not on the fly, but a home made barbless single hook flying C, easy to remove, it's the way to go.

1 Salmon

Salmon jumping along the entire beat.

Second time on this beat and finally it all seemed to click in to place.
12 trout between 5" and 10" all taken on a size 16 olive klinkhammer.
When I returned to the car it was covered in Mayflies!

12 Trout

Good fishing weather if a little chilly, high cloud with a gentle down stream breeze. Fished the mid section of the beat from where a small stream joins the river at the top of the second field down towards the large rock about 300 yards or so. An easy section to get to and wade down although the water does run fast at the start of the rougher water slightly upstream. Upwings rose on and off throughout the day but no mass exodus.
Fished spiders including my favourite Partridge and orange, Waterhen bloa and Greenwells but no takers. The three fish I did catch fell to a nymph tied in black with silver wire body and black cocks tail with black SLF body and tungsten bead in size #14. Had three further good takes (long range releases) that may have been tempted by the spiders. No luck with dries I am afraid to report.
There are plenty of fish in this stretch of the river certainly enough to keep one angler busy for most of a day and there is nothing to suppose it will be any different in the rest of the beat. I would recommend Ashford House without hesitation and will certainly consider returning.

3 Trout

The day was cold. All catch and release. 4 trouts about 10" very nice. Allyson from the Foundation advised me not to go to another beat due to a three day festival and she showed me other beats to select. Thank you Allyson.
All trout were caught with dry fly elk hair. The fishing day finished when I fell in to the river. Very nice day indeed.

4 Trout

River good to on the low side. Water clear. Only fished evening. Very quiet. 1 nice WBT on a dry fly.

1 Trout

Caught 3 rainbows between us, 2 on a spoon and one on a rubber shad. Largest around 3lb. All fish returned.

3 Trout

Fished dry fly from late afternoon early evening til dusk. Some Hawthorn hatching also small hatch of mayfly which was encouraging. Also saw small cover of Grannom. Had a rise and refusal to a yellow CDC Mayfly. Lost a second fish then hooked into a 9.5 inch wild brown. Fabulous first experience on the Wye. The setting, nature and fishing was an excellent experience, just sad that I was not there for longer. Next time...

1 Trout

Lovely day in superb surroundings. A few fish rose during day but no interest with dry flies. Caught 3 wbt, all about 6 inches on weighted nymphs (small Pheasant Tail and Greenwells). Need to improve my stealth to catch more! Lots of wildlife including kingfisher and dipper. Will be back later in season.

3 Trout