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Nice weather, clear water altough on Saturday a bit murky. I fished nymphs wet fly style using fast sinking polyleader(bit weird but I like it). Fish were quite aggresive and takes were firm. I got 4 short grayling and one tiny trout. My friend was more successful and ended up with good number of fish including 5 grayling well over 40cm. He did short nymph better known as czech nymph. Wading is difficult in places - I fell over on Sunday and got wet but carried on fishing;-). The only downside is poor marking of the beat boundaries and parking. It would help if there were signs. But apart from that excellent fishing. Thank you and will be back!

Water very low slightly peaty tinge. Spinning with very small repala's sinking on 10lb line.

07:55 - 12lb male very red returned - caught in run with fallen tree below the bridge pool. Three trout all returned safely largest 3/4 lb. caught at various points on the beat.

3 grayling the largest being just under 2lbs, 2 caught on a klinkhammer and the other on a nymph.

A lovely bit of river which illustrates what a great scheme the WUF is running - much appreciated.

Two very enjoyable days at Pwll-y-faedda and Gromain on the 9th and 10 of October respectively but alas, no fish (although a brown trout did manage to engulf a size 4 Thunder and Lightning - which made the pulse race for a few seconds). It was good to see both beats at lower water and to meet someone who has fished one of them for 16 years. Let's hope there are more fish about next season. Keep up the good work.

River Wye was very low and crystal clear. Weather was cloudy/sunny at times throughout the week, ideal for fishing as far as we were concerned.

One of the best weeks fly fishing on the Wye to date.

Thanks for the recommendation to fish at Abernant and Llyn Elm. We will definitely fish these 2 stretches again, especially Abernant.

Tuesday Sept. 29th. Fly Fishing at Abernant.

Fred: 3 grayling to 1lb 8oz. & 4 small Brown trout to 8oz.
Terry:5 Grayling between 3/4lb & 2lb 2oz.

Wed 30th Sept. Fly Fishing Llyn Elm.

Fred: 6 Grayling best 1lb 12oz. ( a P.B.) & 6 small Brown Trout to 8oz.
Terry: 5 Grayling best 1lb 5oz. & 4 Brown Trout best 1lb 2oz.

Thurs 1st Oct. Bait Fishing at The Warren/Sheephouse.

Fred: 5 Barbel to 4lb + 1 Eel 2lb + 1 Chub 4lb + 3 Brown Trout. (Best close to 3lb all returned safely) + 2 Minnows.
Terry: Blanked.

Friday 2nd Oct. Bait Fishing The Warren / Sheephouse.

Fred: 2 Grayling best 1lb 10oz. & 6 Trout (all safely returned).
Terry: 1 Grayling. 1 Barbel 4lb 14oz. & 4 Trout (all safely returned)

Sunday 4th Oct. Fly Fishing The Fly Run at Builth.

Fred: 1 Chub 4lb 2oz. & 1 Trout( safely returned).
Terry: 5 Grayling. 1@ 2lb 4oz and best at 3lb1oz ( a P.B.) & 4 Trout (best 2lbs + all safely returned).

Monday 5th Oct. Fly Fishing Abernant.

Fred: 7 Grayling to 1lb 8oz. & 4 Small Trout (all safely returned.)
Terry: 3 Grayling to 1lb 10oz. & 5 trout (all safely returned).

Regards to all at the Wye & Usk Foundation. Thanks for all your help and excellent advice once more, see you all soon.

A beautiful warm autumn day on the Wye. The river was in fine fettle and the chub liked my spam. Caught 6 to 4pounds 10 ounces.

Excellent service, very nice people to deal with.
Fished for 7 hours and only had a couple of knocks in the last half hour. Blanked! Did see someone fall in which cheered me up.

Cold wind blowing upstream and rain threatening but failing to appear! River looking good after some water last week but fishing quite hard going. A dozen fish between us - mostly grayling of about 1/2lb plus a couple of similar brownies. One grayling of 1 3/4lb. All taken on small nymphs fished upstream. Many thanks to WUF team who managed to direct us to the river!

SW: Had 8 Grayling & 1 Trout all on a small copper john.
PT: Had 3 Grayling & 1 Trout on small goldhead and flashback PTN. All fish returned.
Grayling were mostly good sized,in range 10-12 inches with one in the region of 15 inches+. A great day fishing.

10lb Hen Salmon, caught on size 10 Alley Shrimp at top of Abernant Stream. Coloured fish safely returned. Fish caught within 10 minutes of starting to fish, nothing for the rest of the day.

The Foundation were exceedingly helpful and look forward to returning next year.