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What a contrast to recent visits to Abernant - feast turns to famine.
River has risen overnight and was heavily coloured and the wind was too strong for my tastes.
Tried variety of dries but with no success. Nymphed most of time but again fishless.
Finally had a small grayling on dry late in day - was only touch all day but at least I hooked it.

1 Grayling

Slow going in good conditions. 3 grayling 2 small trout. All on purple and snipe spiders in faster water. Nothing after about 4pm. Goldhead nymphs yielded a few good tugs. Always a lovely place to spend time.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Dry fly olive pattern

3 Grayling

Great evening, had em all in 1 hour!

1 Trout, 50 Grayling

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

Very hot day.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

A nice warm day with a good enough throughput of water considering the dry week we've had for some not-too-serious trout fishing. Took a number of small fish and one decent sized grayling (0.5 lbs) although after years of fishing WUF, it has only just occurred to me that other people might be including these tiddlers in their catch returns (as I have done here) so perhaps I shouldn't feel so bad about not coming away from the Wye with monster fish to report as yet.!

Over lunch, I got chatting to someone in the pub who told me he used to fish 'after dark' on this stretch about 30 years ago and revelled in recalling a bag of 6 large Salmon he'd taken on a gaff (?), which he sold later on to a Cardiff restaurant. This only reinforces the importance of organisations like the WUF and their work to protect our river wildlife.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Still no sign of salmon on this beat. Perhaps it needs a few days of heavy rain to get them to hang around. But it was a lovely day and I had some fun in the evening with my trout rod.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Grayling

Good height for spinning but i wanted to stick to the fly. No sign of any fish about , but every cast felt there was a chance.