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A brilliant day by my standard's and experience, anyway got off to a flier 2nd cast picked up a brownie around 15inches a PB for me, then four grayling in as many casts all in the same run around 1/2 a pound or so. Then another stunning brown of around the same size as the first . Landed a further 10 or so grayling later in the morning and early afternoon, along with a small brown of around 9 inches. All in all a great day in stunning surroundings. All fish returned.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling

Battled for an hour to hook an eel nibbling the spam, then tried pellet. No sign of a fish 8 - 5pm, then four barbel between us 6lb to 9lb 4oz - well worth the wait!

4 Barbel, 1 Other

Caught on a Snipe and Purple North country Spider. Had a great day, but wished I had a map showing the depths around the Bridge, as the river at places came up to mid chest level, and at times I couldn't find a route to wade around. River beautiful clear, a touch higher than perfect perhaps. Several takes that I missed.

1 Trout

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2 Rainbow Trout caught on the spinner. Very busy and so wasn't a huge amount of space to be able to fish. Apart from the two fish caught it was very quiet.

2 Trout

Hi: Water was very clear and perfect for fishing. Was using spinners, loads of brown trout between 1 and 1.5 lbs.in evening caught two brown trout: first one was 2lbs and second 3lbs. All fish was returned unharmed

4 Trout

Quite a sunny day with a slight downstream wind and very clear water. Not much rising, as seems to be a common occurence on the Wye, but fish were active and came readily to my team of spiders. Most of the takes were quite gentle. Caught steadily throughout the day with the fish getting gradually bigger from about 10" to a nice cock fish of 18".

13 Grayling

Feeder pellets. We were disappointed with number of swims.

2 Chub, 1 Other

Arrived at a sunny river, first time on this beat for me, concerns about access seemed somewhat unfounded, ok you can't wade some stretches and the egress/access can be interesting but the manicured banks of the Hampshire chalk streams are not the reason we choose to fish here really is it? AB and I chose to share a rod again having only one wading stick between us and he more than happy to be guided/tutored by me, ha ha! You can rest easy Mr Burch!
The river looked in fine fettle and we looked forward to a productive days fishing, not to be though. Targeting likely spots all we were able to achieve were two lost fish, one to a duo of nymphs and the other to a dry that I didn't even see! Thinking about this later, I concluded it was the angle of strike, being nearer to the river surface when wading deep and keeping low on the Escley yesterday? There are some great glides on this beat but we were totally bemused by the non existence of any rises, slightly odd? Oh, there were some very young Grayling supping further up of which we plucked out one on a grey duster and then thought better of it. We were on the beat at all time of the day for a rise but even though the hatches were small we at least expected some movement, not even those frustrating ones you see in the distance. I believe there were some anglers on the Skenfrith beat the same day, it would be interesting to see their report, probably a bag full knowing my luck ha ha !
With regard to the fly life, white mayfly in September?! Just a few but crikey.

Bright and sunny but a cold downstream wind blowing for most of day. Saw only 2 or 3 fish rising so resorted to downstream nymph fishing. All fish caught on either a gold or tungsten nymph. Kept 1 trout @ 10oz

4 Trout, 1 Grayling