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Difficult conditions with gusting wind increasing in strength all day, managed 2 grayling biggest 12" and a couple of small trout all on dry fly.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Surprisingly good day for August. Perhaps the rain earlier in the week helped. Good water levels and clear. 3 good sized fish hooked in the flats above the bridge. 2 freed themselves before reaching the net. A nice 13"wbt made it into the net. Duo proved effective with the nymph doing the business. Safely released. Heavy hatch going on most of the day. Mostly small olives, but some blues; although the fish were not going mad for them. A few fish rising higher up the beat but spooked as soon as an approach was made. A couple of good views of a Kingfisher completed a very pleasant day.

1 Trout

no fish caught.

Lovely day on Wye. Very good fishing, but from 1 pm weather changed, pressure went up, strong wind started to blow. Fish refused to feed, and we were struggling to get a bite. We managed just few barbel and chub on evening.

11 Barbel, 12 Chub

2 x sewin 1.5 and 2 pounds on Secret Weapon and Surface Lure. New fish are in the pools since the higher water of last few days including a few larger ones showing, but only small fish taken from a pool tail tonight. Clear sky and resulting temperature drop/mist by 1 o'clock.

2 Sea Trout

Salmon were showing in Llangoed pool. No takes. 1 Trout from rapids (returned). No rise evident, in spite of huge hatches of sedges, but enjoyable fishing nonetheless.N.B. The boat needs fixing - one of the rowlocks from an oar has come away - an old repair seems to have given in following gradual wear and tear. Rowing was difficult but not impossible without it.

1 Trout

First time to this beat, took a friend Howard who had never fished a river with fly rod nor ever caught a grayling on rod and line. We made our way to the bottom of the beat, the river looking a little coloured, and the weather warm, cloudy and very little wind. We started on the dry and I caught a grayling on the dry and Howard had his first grayling shortly after.
Both missed several others before Howard had his second, after this we started moving up the beat. The wind got progressively worse as the day went on and a strong downstream wind made dry fly presentation difficult so we switched to nymphing. Howard had a little brownie, whereas I caught seven grayling. Oddly the only thing they seemed interested in was a white coloured czech nymph.
The Wading at this beat is easier at the lower end, but there are areas with large boulders further up that make wading tricky. So tricky that I took a nice refreshing dip!Overall this beat has so much to go at, some nice pocket water, dry fly flats, gullies, deep holes and fast runs. Really enjoyed the day and will definitely return to this beat, thanks WUF.

1 Trout, 10 Grayling

Nice beat, plenty of water in and not much colour - some healthy aqua-weed. Fished below the bridge which has a couple of access stiles. Some good looking sea-trout lies but fished for a couple of hours for brownies. There had been some rain - how would this river look after a few weeks without? Little rising but had two small brownies on Para Adams (Klink and dink) - another two got away. Lost a bit of tackle to snags above and below surface.

2 Trout

Got there early enough to watch the sun rise over the mountains. So pleased I made the effort. Fishing wise caught 2 carp and 1 chub. Fairly slow fishing, most seemed to be a long way out. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay.
Thanks

1 Chub, 2 Other

All 5 trout about 6-7" caught on blue dun and grey duster parachutes. Water level low but very easy wading. Not much surface action but that might have been time of day fished 11-16:00

5 Trout