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I'm afraid I didn't fish. Weather too extreme to be standing out in the middle of the Wye as far as I am concerned!

Fished hard all day but to no avail.

Very very cold, but beautiful day. River was clear and pushing through. Fished from 7.30 for four hours using a variety of nymphs. Hard to find fish today but managed 4 grayling, nothing of size and a oos trout of about 14". Fairly pleased given the weather.

WUF please amend the parking directions as the space in front of the Bell is now a picnic area. I parked in the pub car park. Cheers.

WUF Note: Thanks for letting us know, we will look into this and update maps accordingly.

1 Trout, 4 Grayling

8 x grayling 9-11inches, Pink Shrimp and various leaded wet flies. I tried this for about three hours. Some shots were to be had by standing waist-deep in the middle of the Wye, which is a good fishing height now. But I'm afraid the wind chill factor just became too much - hardly a pleasure. Upstream wind very strong and the rod rings laden with ice.

8 Grayling

Fly fishing for pike. River wade-able in places, moderately clear and a medium flow. But we couldn’t find the pike! Banks slippery in places so care needed.

We managed two trout and one chub on maggot feeder, which in the conditions was a result.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

-2 when I arrived,ice at edge of water, tried spinning in 4 locations but to no avail, 3 trips to car to thaw out body and line (ice build up on rod rings!!) and gave up after 2hrs.

Arriving late, we concentrated on the lower Bachawy Pool, and with the water so clear and low I started swinging some spiders with a tungsten Hare’s Ear on the point. After a few knocks, I took one large but very skinny out of season trout before switching to a couple of nymphs suspended below an indicator. My mate had taken one small grayling at the head of the pool on a Peeping Caddis Jig. After searching the whole pool, we eventually stumbled across the fish and managed to take 27 grayling between us in a couple of hours. Most were small shots but nevertheless, it was great fun watching the indicator twitch, often just under the rod tip. A bitterly cold day amongst a very exposed section of river, but a much-needed fix to help cope with another week in the office!

1 Trout, 27 Grayling