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Well,a really pleasant four hours here ..... I must say , when I bowled up at eleven was nice to chat with the farmer, who was genuinely concerned about the lower Wye pollution and sewage in our River systems ..... I commented that this has always been good, along with the Upper Wye .. ... Sometimes the dead algae can be a problem, but the head of fish here is very good in fairness.....
Fishing was fun today ... dry fly for me as always..... a size twenty iron blue did the business , thirteen to my net, a few more didn't quite make it, and self released ..... so polite !!!! Sizes from eight to eleven inches ..... With the Polaroids on,there's some crackers here always has been to be honest ......
Nice easy fishing, no jungle warfare tactics today, just a plain simple slow wade, very slow, as the pools are low and clear .... casting to risers, such fun..... that satisfying splashy rise to your fly ....... never tire of it !!!
Got out ten to three, a slow bimble across the fields .... superb stuff .... back here very soon as its very local tbh ...... Nice change from the Edw ..... cracking stuff......... Rain tommorrow it seems , hoping the Bracken clock will be showing in numbers up at Claerwen Reservoir by the weekend ..... we shall see !!!!

13 Trout

Fished for part of the afternoon only, busy sport to small fish early on. Slowed down later, water slightly off colour. Switched to larger mayfly dries as a few Danica in evidence. Lost a VERY good fish which hooked me up underneath the bankside vegetation.
Pleasant afternoon, could have been better, not a lot of fish showing on the surface. Conditions pleasantly warm with light breeze, some Danica and Yellow Mays showing but not a lot. Little surface activity on the part of the fish.

9 Trout, 2 Grayling

One bt before rain stopped play
A small number of mayfly present, but fish not feeding on them

1 Trout

0.17m on the gauge, however, still with a bit of pace and colour . Managed 5 small trout, all on caddis. Even though many upwings and mayfly about there was very little rising, so my fall back position is always a caddis.

5 Trout

River a little high and coloured, visibility about 2.5ft. Sunny day with light downstream wind with occasional strong gusts. Normally a visit to Llanddewi at this time of year means a day on the dry, but the extra water seems to have put them down. Fished duo for most of the day with only one take on the dry.

At the end of the day I noticed a couple of fish rising so switched to dry and was rewarded with a large OOS grayling.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

All caught on dry fly.

11 Trout

River very coloured, nothing rising until end of day.

All fish taken on ptn except for a large grayling caught at the end of the day on a Klinkhammer.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout

Good to be back here as its been a while and good also to see it when its got a few inches of extra water on it over the summer lows (0.220m on the Llandewi gauge today and falling ) and with some colour but not too much. Lovely.
A few stonefly and sedge knocking about in the air and some nice grayling looking rises here and there made me stick with the dry (such a lovely day for it!) but could only bring up trout sadly . A couple of nice decent fish netted and in superb,bright and fit condition so didnt feel too guilty and horsed them in pretty quick and back away too.
Lots of small fish having a go at the dry (cdc sedge) and dont know what species but that can only be good for the future . Hopefully anyway...
Seems the farmer has redone the barbed wire fencing in the mid section since I last went so is a bit tricky along there gaining access so I will be taking a piece of the pipe insulating foam along next time to save the waders!

2 Trout

Bright warm day, 0.2m on Llanddewi gauge. 2 parr picked up on nymphs from the faster sections of water, a couple of better sized brown trout hooked but lost. Late afternoon as it was getting a little darker landed a ~13" Grayling and 14" brown trout from the head of a fairly slow run with a lot of tree cover. Both fish on an olive dubbed body, bead-headed nymph with a soft hackle (size 16 hook with 2.8mm bead). Fished 3'-4' under a NZ style indicator.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling