Feedback & Reports

Turned up today with the temperature gauge on the car showing 0 degrees, so we knew we were in for a hard time, water level was down about 12 to 18 inches on the last time we fished here, so we decided to walk the stretch looking for deeper water, I think that if we found a pool that resembled an abyss it wouldn't of helped us today, the two of us never had a tap all day. The highlight was a salmon jumping (twice) and a kingfisher making a couple of appearances.
ps. Please heed the WUF's warning about the wooded area, it is quite treacherous in places !

First time on this beat using Czech nymphs and new setup - upstream, short casting, nylon rig only. No catch on this occasion, but will be returning soon.
P.S avoid wading in the area in front of the recording studio - took an unexpected plunge!

River running at .35m. Trout were aggressively taking everything that went near them often making it hard to get to the grayling (of which we landed 4 of a decent size up to 2lb), good news for the quality of the fishery of course. A surprise salmon of about 4lb took an age to land on a light tippet, returned of course, and looked like it had been in the river for a while. Another thoroughly enjoyable day on this beat that ended all too quickly.

1 Salmon, 15 Trout, 12 Grayling

Very low water, we only had 2 grayling between us, though having to return to london we only fished till midday.

2 Grayling

The river was very low and the top half of the beat almost unwadable due to the uneven algae coated bedrock. Anglers should take great care wading here - it was some of the toughest wading I've encountered (and I've fished most of the upper Wye beats).
Duo outfished French leader tactics and all fish >1lb took a klink type pattern. The largest grayling weighted 1lb 8oz.
A decent beat for a few hours but be careful!

12 Grayling

Very low levels with most fish at the bottom of the bigger pools, still a really enjoyable half day with fish taking pink beaded nymphs. Lovely quiet beat with easy wading.

2 Grayling

Low, clear and a horrible downstream wind made for a challenging day.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

A hard days fishing. Conditions were frosty, cold and windy with gin clear waters. Struggled to get a bite at all but a cracking stretch...

2 Grayling

Fished from 10-3. Went for a swim at midday (first time this has happened in years ) after stripping off and wringing out my clothes worked my way up the beat, river is very low and there is lots of algae and weed on the bedrock... it is extremely slippery be warned! Nothing doing above or below until 2 and an olive hatch brought grayling, trout and a sizeable salmon to the surface. 5 grayling from 13"-15"..1 trout 10" all on the surface, Greenwells, Griffiths and Red Tag. Lost several big fish at the net and would have caught more but was shivering so much I couldn't thread a fly anymore....came home cold but satisfied I had stayed the distance!

1 Trout, 5 Grayling