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Fished Mill pool and Rectory, both with fly and spinner,nothing seen or touched

Mayfly seem to have slowed down tonight due to the weather conditions but still plenty of BWO and yellow may dunns coming off to keep the trout looking up.

12 Trout

3 Trout

9" and focussed on bottom half, moved a fish on the sunray in Glangwye.

Started off the evening after salmon but the mayfly spinner fall had me distracted so back to the car for the Trout rod managed 9 to just over a pound, some big fish moving !

9 Trout

Great 2 days of fishing! First time on the Wye. Couple of takes only. Big learning curve not least the absolute necessity of a wading stick if you want to stay vertical! Will definitely be back to fish this beautiful water.

My first time on the Rectory - and what a lovely beat it is; plenty of streamy water, loads of long flats and some fun pocket water. After a diary error, I had to frantically replan and only made it to the hut around 1130. With blanket grey cloud, intermittent rain and a gusty breeze, things didn't look promising but a few small rising fish in the pool in front of the hut and a decent looking salmon topping in the Rectory Stream put me in a good mood.
I spent a couple of hours covering the bottom of the beat up to the Rectory Pot. The fast water is very "trouty" and every cast feels like it's covering fish, so I spent longer than I perhaps should have done for no reward. At the deep fast run below Rectory Pool I switched to a heavy weighted black magic nymph and had a hard fighting brownie of 14".
After that the wind died off for a spell, the rain paused and suddenly there were pale yellow and brown upwings and the fish were on the surface. I fished all the way round to New Catch with dries - yellow Comparaduns, pale evening dun, parachute adam's - and had 7 trout from 7-16", with a brief pause to throw a minnow pattern across the neck of the Rectory which resulted in two trout around 10".

By this time it was 7pm so I skipped over the flats and fished under the bridge quickly, losing one on an Adam's. Finishing just before 8pm I headed back to the hut but couldn't resist a couple more casts to the last few rises of the day in the pool directly in front of the hut; these led to a couple of tiny chub not much bigger than the fly!

All in all, a really excellent day despite unpleasant conditions. I'll certainly be back to this beat.

10 Trout, 2 Chub

Plenty of fish rising on the flats in the morning, took two on CDC including a good 1lb trout. Ran teams of spiders through the faster water and tails, picked up a hefty grayling and four more smaller trout. Very quiet from mid afternoon. Wind picked up after 6pm left the river at 7pm.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

Fished Early and late, caught three trout 12-16oz, a small chub and two Shad one around 1.5 lbs and another nearer 2lbs. All taken on nymphs.

3 Trout, 1 Chub, 2 Other

8 Trout, 6 Grayling