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I made a tactical error here, by deciding to fish dry fly on this lovely warm September day. But nothing much hatching, nothing much rising, and by mid-afternoon I had a 6 inch trout to show for my efforts. Only when I changed to a heavy nymph rig in the last hour to search the deep pools did the grayling start to come: then 4 x grayling to 15 inches. In other words, the beat fished exactly as it did in February and I should have stayed with the heavy flies all along!

Incidentally, the holiday cottage bit, where you can't fish when it is occupied as it was on this day, has some of the best grayling pools, unfortunately.

Always a tough beat although (even tougher with low clear water) perseverance normally results in at least one "porker". Not this time however, as usual the bottom pool by the camping field provided some nice fish eager to rise to a dry, got 4 about 8-10" in the morning.
The rest of the day and the beat was a blank. Hung around by the house as conditions were perferct for an evening rise, nothing doing however.

3 grayling to a max 2lbs beuatiful fish in top condition, 4 brownies to max of 1 lb. All fish returned. Low water but a hatch and all taken from the top with dries.
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First visit to the Wye and what a great place. Caught a nice barbel first cast and had steady action through the day finishing with 8 barbel to 6 or 7lb (3 lost)and 21 chub to 3 and a half to 4lb between the 3 of us despite a low clear river. The only dissapointing thing was thinking that we had the beat to ourselves and learning that the land owner has a list of people he lets fish and a couple turned up, but all in all a fantastic day thank you wuf.

(WUF note - the Backney owner allows friends to fish too. We cannot therefore guarantee exclusivity to WUF rods although there should still be plenty of swims to choose from.)

Lovely surrounding and great bit of river, warm sunshine and light winds so wasnt expecting much till late on, how wrong I was!! 19 Barbel to 8.5 lbs and 5 chub.

I caught 4 barbel, largest 7lbs, my son had 1 barbel. River very low. Fish started to feed early afternoon. Bait: halibut pellets and bread flake. A very coloured salmon was jumping in the pool. Lovely stretch of river with very good access.

Fished Ty Newydd on way back from fishing week at Aberystwyth - James had his first ever salmon, a 12.5lb -fish from the River Rheidol - lovely!

On Ty Newydd we had 35 fish to 3 rods - all on dries - best trout 1lb, 4 grayling also at least that size. River low but fished well, fish mostly in well oxygenated water.

Many thanks for a great days fishing - a perfect end to our week!

Managed a couple of hours on Whitney, last fished there in the early seventies !!!! River looked beautifull, in less than ideal conditions caught 4 chub all around 3lb, 1 barbel around 6lb and a bonus grayling around 12oz. The only person I saw all afernoon was one well behaved and polite canoeist.

Started and about 8.15 am fished hard all morning without a touch, no fish rising at all. In the afternoon had 1 small brown 8 inch on a size 14 copper nymph and 3 browns of about half a pound all on the hares ear nymph. Had to work hard all day but what a great days fishing, I'll definitly be going back.

Caught small grayling and one trout 14in on dry fly. Caught 13in grayling on nymph. River low and clear. Windy with some sun. No rises although quite a few fly about. Had to finish at 3pm.