Feedback & Reports

Yet again a beautiful day! Got down to the river early(ish) and both of us started working our way down from the middle of the beat (Maddox), leap frogging down the the Vanstone Pool. BB watched RC tighten into a fish from between the Corner Tree and Vanstone. Hard to tell if it was a large trout or small kelt as it shook free after a brief time. After much casting from BB a 31" kelt was taken from the Vanstone Pool. Random tactic.....cast full length across and pay out line to get really deep in the current. While the fish was in the margins but still fighting, a large shape was following...I believe it was the 41" Pike taken on a previous trip last week! Big whatever with the same missing tip to it's tail. Landed before the impending doom.
BB hooked a kelt of considerable size from the very top of the Maddox in front of the concrete block but lost it.
All quiet in the afternoon until BB hooked a Springer on the fly from the Island. After a cracking fight of 15mins it was netted by RC. Measuring 37" it was estimated at 22lbs. No Sea Lice but the scars from them had stared to heal. Been in the system a while.
RC had many more pulls during the afternoon but none stuck.
All in all a great day..

No fish and very little fish activity. Tried nymphs and dry fly but no success.

Fished for a couple of hours landing 8 trout to just over 1lb. Most taken on a tan klinkhammer with a couple on PT nymph. A few grannom about.

Beautiful stretch, not much in the way of fly life, one small fish seen rising on the first bend nothing else seen all day both rods a blank. River seemed terribly low on speaking to the farmer. On the way out he informed us he has never seen it so low at this time of year ever. Would definately return, and next time the Foundation staff advise me to fish the Wye for trout at a certain time, perhaps I'll listen. All in all good day.

13 x trout 9-13 inches, 3 x out of season grayling 10-12 inches. Another day of sun in which the temperature went from zero in the early morning to 22 degrees in the early afternoon. So far, the upper Wye seems to be standing up to the conditions much better than the Usk. It's noticeable that fish, which were prepared to rise, are well forward in the fast water at the heads of pools - not so much for the oxygen, but because that is where the nymphs mostly hatch out. After lunch we had a grannom hatch, not short and intense as usual, but intermittent and long drawn out. Late in the afternoon the odd egg laying female was attracting interest. Most of the fish came to a Hare's Lug and Plover spider from a team fished up into the fast necks of pools during the initial hatch. The grannom seems early by about two weeks, although I see from the diary we had it by the same day (28 March) in 2011 during another hot dry spring; in 2010, 12 April was the first time I saw it.

Great day, but only two small trout on caddis nymphs - have same beat next day with a guide ....

Another fantstic day, 14 trout to 16ins, 5 grayling to 12ins, all on the grannom. Grannom on the water at 9.30, fish rising from the start and still going when I left at 17.45. Need another visit soon, Thanks.

No fish caught or seen, a bit of a disappointment on the catching front. But glorious spring weather of blue skies and 20 odd degrees, rod in hand on the banks of a river, as we all know, beats most days! I found myself doing a spot of coppicing to aid some of the runs, get stuck in I say, it all helps!

4 Rainbow Trout - Worm.

3 BT c 10". Some good hatches but few fish rising.