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Fished from about 14:30 until 19:30.
Water temp reading 13 degrees.
Fish were rising intermittently and a few mayfly about.
Had 3 Browns on the dry but only landed one.

Euro nymphed a faster riffle later on and had another 2 Browns, but landed none!
Probably should have spent more time euro nymphing the faster water.
Would have had more fish, I suspect and with that water temp, fish will start moving into the quicker water to feed.

I couldn’t make out what they were eating on the surface.
Definitely something very small and despite changing and downsizing my dries, my flies were rejected more than a few times.

Interesting day and not a bad day all things considered.

1 Trout

4 Rainbow trout caught on spinner. Sunny day, wter relatively calm in bay

4 Trout

Fish rising all day, not interested in variety of dries but were more than obliging on the nymph. All taken Euro style, with probably another 10 not landed. Great beat with large variety of water. Mainly on PTN variations, with a small hotspot.

22 Trout

3 Trout

The Wye is low and clear …. Looking better than for the last couple of years. Boy was it cold …. Bonkers to have numb fingers after being soaked in sweat last week. There was a good hatch in progress when we arrived late morning…, olives , yellow May duns, mayflies and a smattering of what may be yellow mayflies …. Potamanthus luteus …. Although didn’t get close enough for positive ID. The fish were looking up initially but activity tailed off in to the afternoon as the temperature dropped . We had 10 tubby trout between us, the best 13” before the icebergs started to float past at 6 pm and we called it a day to retreat to the car to warm up. All fish on dries and safely returned .

10 Trout

evening for 2 hrs saw a few spasmodic rises , turned over 3 fish but no takers , nice evening though and on the other bank 2 very large Deer !!!

Fabulous fishing Rainbows and Wild Browns.

Slow inter. Line small hares ear/ partridge spiders with claret or copper

5 Trout

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 Trout

Only person fishing today on the whole of the res,
and not even a nibble, very disappointing day.