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6 brown trout to 1.5lbs (all released) plus a couple of dace in 4 hours of fishing. All fish caught on cdc emergers on the flats or small gold headed nymphs in the faster water. Got broken off by something very large in the tail of the Mill Race which came up and took a klinkhammer before tearing off at a rate of knots. Not the easiest day's fishing but overall a very enjoyable afternoon.

Mixture of trout and grayling to mainly nymphs. Best trout around 30cm. Rising fish seem to be taking black gnat, a few sedge about early in the morning. Interesting days fishing fish mainly in the faster broken water.

Lots of salmon smolts still evident in desperate need of some water to get them to sea!!!

Three trout to 10". Two grayling 12" each. Two salmon parr.

1 x 15cm Brown Trout

37" (C.20lb) hen salmon from below the Bridge. 3/4" flamethrower tube fished on an intermediate line. Very strong fight.

Nice setting, very low water. 4 small trout (to 7 inches)and a few out of season grayling. Most taken on parachute Adams. Various families skimmming stones from opposite bank and 2 canoeists made an appearance during the afternoon-the joys of a bank holiday weekend in the sun.

The day started with a glorious drive from the Rumney valley to meet Frank Williams and a small number of other anglers for a days instruction in wet fly fishing techniques on this stretch of the Upper Wye.

I arrived at my destination for 09:20 and briefly introduced myself to the other members of the party before Frank demonstrated some of his tackling up methods. Even at this stage I was picking up tips and it was quite obvious how Frank had picked up his "Pro" status. Some casting tuition followed and we were led towards the river around midday.

Despite the strong sunshine and very low water levels quite a few fish appeared to be moving. Frank demonstrated the "Across and down" method of fishing a team of flies that included a small copper head PTN on the point, partridge spider on the middle dropper and a traditional wet on the top dropper.

On our first solo session using this method I managed 2 X brown trout of 6 and 10 inches. The set-up also attracted the intrest of a few other fish but none were brought to hand.

Our second demonstration took place in faster water and was based around fishing wet flies/nymphs, upstream on a shortened line. Frank only managed to winkle out a few small fish during this period which I was really surprised about as the stretch in question looked very fishy.

The rest of the group led by Frank headed back to the car park for a spot of lunch. Meanwhile, armed with my new found knowledge I carried on fishing. I'd swapped my rig to some heavily weighted PTN's and tied a killer bug to the point. Working the deeper channel just downstream of where Frank had given his demo an 11inch grayling and 1 other small WBT were brought to hand.

At the top end of the beat another small WBT was caught using this method before I called it a day at approx 4:30pm.

Altold it was a very enjoyable day and I would certainly recommend Frank's services to anglers of all abilities wishing to develop their fishing knowledge.

Bright and very hot day, very low river conditions for the time of year. Lots of black gnat evident and the odd olive.
A number of stock fish happily rising on the flats above the bridge, but little else willing to brave the sunny weather.

About a dozen fish to a pound taken on small nymps and occasional dry griffiths gnat.

V hot and sunny. Not many rises. Two trout 9" each. One grayling 10" on nymph.

Low water and no fish caught or seen.