Feedback & Reports

not fished this stretch since Jean had the shop Sweets running, was always great to visit here there to get my permit.
day started off wet but soon cleared up.
river levels low / .23 on the gauge. good clarity and plenty of insect life.
massive hatch of iron blue duns in the morning , was fantastic to see.
not many fish rising , took all of my fish nymphing bar 2 which i had late evening on a small emerger.

14 Trout

Couldn’t find access without ruining expensive waders so didn’t fish. More details about access required.

Couldn’t find access without ruining expensive waders so didn’t fish. More details on access required. Expensive day. 2 streams no fishing.

Not a thing.

Nothing. I didn't see any fish

Pollution evident in this stretch, water smell, algae buildup really shows with low water, fish will struggle here despite stocking.

A strange day. Lots of fish rising in the morning and I ought to have caught a few more. Nothing much happening in the afternoon. Left early to watch the Europa League final so I didn't fish the evening.

3 Trout

7 Trout

Very enjoyable day with intermittent hatch and low water.
All the fish came from the downstream end of the beat mainly taken on dries, one advantage of low water levels was that it was easy to cross over and fish the bottom of the beat down to the remains if the footbridge.

4 Trout

This was an evening session starting 7pm finishing about 9.30pm concentrating on the Rock Pool at the top of the beat. I'd seen reports of a wide variety of flies hatching on the upper Wye in the past few days and that was the case again with various olives plus midges, sedge and mayflies making for clouds of fly life above the river - great to see.
I stuck to the dry fly as there were plenty of trout rising but they were selective and the usually reliable cdc shuttlecock emerger was refused by everything. A switch to a Ducks Dunn produced a few with some more coming later to a spinner pattern.
The river is unbelievably low and with the good clarity, the fish are very spooky. Stealth and presentation is everything in the calmer water, even for the smaller fish. No monsters this evening, biggest was around 11". A few barbel spotted too.

11 Trout, 1 Grayling