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Great day. No fish seen or caught.

This was a day's fishing as part of the RT Autumn Conference. I caught 1 grayling (1.25lb), 1 brown trout (1lb) and 1 salmon parr (3cm!) on silver invicta or other colour variants. All fish released. Water was coloured and nil rises seen. I saw 1 otter at upper beat access point. This was a stunning day, so many thanks to the Foundation for its generosity and hard work in running the passport scheme and conservation projects.

I made a bit of a miscalculation here when I booked the previous evening, totally under-estimating the amount of rain due to fall on the Cambrian hills overnight. When I got to the beat, I was taken aback by the water height and rather wished I had taken a salmon rod instead of a trout ticket. Still, Abernant does fish reasonably well for trout and grayling in high water if it's not too mucky, so I had a quick whizz through with a team of spiders to establish that, no, they were not coming to the surface. What's more, the water was clearly still rising and colouring with more and more debris floating down as the morning went on. I think it rose 13 inches between 8 o'clock and midday. So, I switched to heavy nymphs and for about an hour found a few fish prepared to take on the bottom to the side of the main flow - first 3 nice grayling, then a smaller grayling, a single modest trout after a long gap ... and then nothing. I finally gave up at midday. 4 x grayling 10 - 14 inches, 1 x trout 10 inches, all on a Pink Shrimp.

D O'Dwyer, caught 3 brown trout on Hare's Ear and shrimp.
PS caught 1 Grayling on shrimp.

Turned out to be a very difficult day. There was a lot of weed coming down the river which did not help with bait presentation. We ended the day with 1 chub of 2.5 lb and 2 barbel of 6lb and 7lb, all fish taken from the deeper water half way up the first field. The top salmon croy was unfishable because of the very high winds and excess weed coming down the river.

Found fishing difficult due to very strong wind and lots of weed and branches coming down the river. However after braving the elements, I landed 5 barbel and a bonus eel!? All caught on pellets over groundbait. All in all not a bad day considering the conditions.

Nil return. River 2ft on the gauge at Colemans. Fish showing at Coleman's, non seen on Dukes.

Started the day with fishing down the main pool - and watching an otter fishing up the other bank. Only when we were directly opposite ( 25m) did he stop and we had a 30sec staring contest "excuse me I'm fishing here" after which he vanished into thin air. Water looked perfect but no sign of a fish at all throughout the day. Only at the end of the day 10 lb hen fish on T&L in Abernant stream - returned. Lovely day as ever.

Fished 2pm to dusk. Caught 2 x barbel - 8.5 and 9lbs.

Incompetently we struggled today landing only 3 barbel (all about 7lbs) and a couple of chub between the two of us. Still all fishing days are good days - especially on the Wye.