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A beautiful beat on the Upper Wye, which was less productive than I had expected. It was a windy day with bright sun; very few fish were rising so I fished mainly with nymphs. One had to work hard for the fish - 5 were caught and returned (2 trout which were less than 1/2 lb each, 2 small grayling and one salmon smolt). A better fish was hooked and lost after a brief tussle. However, it was a lovely day in beautiful countryside.

7 Trout biggest 10". Missed loads! The beat needs a spot of gardening? Great Day!

Not fishing today but merely enjoying a fine afternoon along the Wye. Amazed to see huge shoals of Shad making their annual pilgrimage upstream. In thirty minutes many hundreds, if not thousands, passed my viewpoint. Also spotted a very large Pike with her escorts, and to cap it all off a Perch that must have been nudging three pounds. Wow, what a river we have.

My first time on this beat and I was delighted to see rising fish from the off. With the river really low and clear I was assisted with some cloud cover until mid afternoon and ended up with 8 fish.
The highlight was 2 beautifull fish taken on consecutive casts and both a fraction under 20". All fish taken on small dries with 15` leader.

2 Grayling 12" & 14", 1 "very large" Brown Trout lost at net!

A lovely day on a charming beat, but the fishing was challenging due probably to low water and bright sun. Only 3 small trout (less than 1/2 lb each) caught (and returned). All caught on nymphs (pheasant tail and non-specific Czech nymphs). One decent fish (probably 1 or 1 1/2 lbs was played for a brief time and lost). Very few fish were rising, despite a huge hatch in the late afternoon/early evening. Dry flies were tried without success.

24 trout from 1lb to 0.05lb! Great Day.

Six brown trout to 10", 1 salmon par, 1 grayling. An excellent days fishing, river a little shallow, but fishable. All fish caught with a single fly, a sedge olive. Banks are now getting to be a little overgrown with nettles etc.

A few rises - 1 WBT 10 inches on GRHE above weir. Apart from that nothing. One day I will get the measure of this beat.

What a cracking little river, every type of water you could wish for. I thought the road would be too noisy but no, the rushing water and Kingfishers soon drowned that out.
I'm no good at naming fly patterns, I just copy what's in/on the water and being taken by the fish, but there was so much 'natural' going on I tried everything that matched; black, grey winged or brown caught. Only 3 x Brown Trout of 8-10 inch and an out of season grayling of about 1lb on the dropper(dry) and nothing but dozens of dace on the point(beaded nymphs) but a better man would not have missed all the other takes...! I never got to the top of the beat, too deep for me to wade after the gully above the weir and couldn't find a route on the bank due to the electric fence but this section is deep and slow with not much surface activity but I would love to trott a stick float through for the huge chub I saw basking in the sun! Sorry, that just slipped out...