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Robin Woods on sunday evening caught a coloured hen fish around 8lbs, on a mepps at Llysdinam in the Aber Deep pool. That is the fourth fish of the season so far at Llysdinam.

1 Salmon

Started late and so was beaten to the hot spot at the end of the beat. Managed fish from a number of different swims, working my way back up the beat. Access to the swims is superb and although its a hike down to the end of the beat, there are lots of good swims near the car. The barbel seemed to be in the faster shallower water. A great end to a another superb on the Wye.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

2 chub caught in the meadow from middle of river on shrimp boilie.

2 Chub

Nil Return.

Wierd day, this was. On the face of it, perfect fishing. The water was moderately high, but clear. Temperature was variable. I was expecting lots of excitement, but there were next to no fish in evidence. I know this beat has lots of trout, so there's no shortage. I waited for the evening rise, but still very little happening. Not sure why. I caught two 1/2 lb browns which leapt after my fly!!

Fantastic day. Trotting small banded pellet/corn/bread produce a healthy bag of chub approaching 100lb. Lost a couple of barbel on the float but bagged three on the feeder 6-8pm.
Nice long stretch of varied water with a good number of swims. Some steep banks down to water though so if you're not that agile take a rope or avoid the lower end.
Also an abundance of salmon leaping, good fish in the 10 to 20lb range.

Keep up the good work WUF!
Would definitely return

3 Barbel, 40 Chub

I fished mainly with dry fly. Water was quite low and conditions bright, hence a difficult day.

Nil caught.

All very quiet again. Very little surface activity at all.
2 decent trout to 10 inches caught on a PTN variant, both returned.

2 Trout

First time on Wyesham: I got to fish the lower 2/3 - the Hut and Colemans. After laying out a sum for the day which could have covered a pretty good weekend in Vegas – well, almost – what do you actually get for your money? Well, you get the kind of salmon fishing which has become rarer on the Wye in recent years, although common enough in Scotland or destination fisheries abroad. A well-maintained fishery, where banks and cribs are kept in order, four boats, a well-appointed hut and the services of a gillie (between 6 rods). Wyesham is fished hard by 6 rods, almost every day of the season when conditions make it possible. Necessarily, the organisation of it all is quite regimented. Quite a lot of the beat is normally fly-fished from a boat (but bear in mind you need the gillie for this), although some of these deeper sections can be spun from the bank at certain times and under carefully regulated circumstances. What I particularly enjoyed was that this is (another) most beautiful part of the valley, and I got to wade and fish some fly water to die for, such as Livox stream and the very interesting Colemans.
Blank for salmon, although this was hardly the fault of the beat. Conditions looked perfect and fish were showing – we just couldn’t get one to take! And the other day ticket rod (who came from Hertfordshire) and I fished a long day, starting around 7.30am and going on into the evening. This reminds me of one point which needs clearing up. Over lunch in the hut together with the season rods, the gillie suddenly announced that day ticket rods “shouldn’t really start before 9.00 AM.” Now nothing had been mentioned of this during a telephone conversation the evening before and the WUF ticket states a start from dawn if wanted. My own view is that I don’t see why day ticket holders shouldn’t have as good a day out on this beat as season rods, especially as they have paid more for it, pro-rata. Clarification please?

WUF comment: Owner clarification - Day ticket anglers can fish from dawn provided that they inform Ray or Joe the ghillies the day before.