[sewinfly]

As soon as you see their 14 footers waving in the air ! let them have it Jones.

 

[Stuart Smith]

Elam compensation water released and 6” or so is on its way down. Reached Erwood so far. Might just wake a few in middle river

 

[meyre]

Ha! I have a cunning plan … Take a fine Switch rod and a nice buoyant line , grease your leader well, having first attached a bomber, muddler, Yellow Dolly, a passing mole perhaps. Ensure they too have a dose of best Mucillin. With your usual gentle switch or Spey cast let the 'fly' be placed square of you. Allow a down-stream belly to form . Gently tease the bobbing confection around in slow arch, causing it to furrow lightly the limpid water's surface. In this manner magic events occur with trout , seatrout, chub, pike, dace, shad and according to Messrs Labranche, Monnel and Knowles with salmon .
This delicate art is the best and perhaps the only method under current conditions of warm weather, low water and a desire to be doing something when all else seems a bit hopeless. Like a quill float it gives hours of harmless pleasure with occasional astonishing interludes.
Do not be dissuaded by ghillies and hoary Simms-clad 'professionals' for them innovation is a perversion worthy of a good flogging. Accept their disdain with resolution , knowing that you can revert to a Snap T and cascade at your choosing.

 

[Guest]

Elam compensation water released and 6" or so is on its way down. Reached Erwood so far. Might just wake a few in middle river

Bet you won't even notice it, especially on the lower river. Every little helps I suppose before a hosepipe ban!!

 

[Guest]

Freash Fish yesterday from Bigswier for Geoff Handley. Several others seen

 

[Richardgw]

Well inspite of the conditions I decided to venture out for a couple of hours this afternoon trying fly first in each spot before using the metal work - a small single hooked mepps, and it was the latter that produced the goods with this very fresh 9 lb'er

 

[sewinfly]

Well done Richard.

No need to keep on posting

Well done, lovely fish. I can only dream.

Spencer..............

 

[meyre]

Very shiny and that's the fish...well done. Stick at it , don't think they'll be going anywhere foe a while ; the Met's got no juice offered.

 

[Saint Andrews]

Well done Richard, a plump tide fresh fish. Cracker

 

[uplands50]

Well done Richard, I’m still tunnelling out of Wales.

 

[Stuart Smith]

Well done Richard, I'm still tunnelling out of Wales.

I'm with you...............

 

[steved]

I'm with you...............

You stay there we aren't allowed to get into Wales

 

[andy spey bro]

Interesting that with flows as low as they are fresh fish will still run as far as Lower Carrots as one reported for Saturday! Encouraging as I’d thought it unlikely to see fish much above Ross but I’ve only fished the Wye for five years so much to learn I guess!

 

[gog]

Interesting that with flows as low as they are fresh fish will still run as far as Lower Carrots as one reported for Saturday! Encouraging as I'd thought it unlikely to see fish much above Ross but I've only fished the Wye for five years so much to learn I guess!

No canoes, I wonder if that might have something to do with fresh fish running on low water.

 

[steved]

Had a look at Upper Bigsweir today , never seen it looking so bad , you can see every rock and the bottom from bank to
bank , water crystal clear , need rain bad ; pics taken through my polaroids

 

[OURTREV]

I had a couple of hours last night in Ross waters. Blanked apart from a smolt! As you all know the water is stupidly low and last night I got the fly tied up in algae more often than I care to remember. Every step I took released loads more from the River bed which went floating away in the direction of my fly. There does not seem to be quite as much ranunculus this year in our waters and I don't think there is as much of the dreaded Himalayan Balsam so the seeds might have been swept away by the biblical floods. It's an annual so just one good year of nice growing conditions and it will be back. Pull 10 plants up every time you go fishing.
However I saw at least 5 or 6 fish as I went downstream so they are about but conditions would try the patience of a saint. ?

 

[Handel]

Himalayan Balsalm won't be liking this hot dry weather. Its shallow roots will be losing the fight for water which it needs in large quantity. It struggled last year as well especially in hedges where the other plants had roots that went deeper.

 

[Grassy_Knollington]

I guess the good thing is that we can actually see through the water to the bottom at the moment and the river isn’t yet flowing brown/green.

Given the widespread pollution, which everyone acknowledges, fly life Certainly appears pretty robust.

 

[joffun]

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I guess the good thing is that we can actually see through the water to the bottom at the moment and the river isn't yet flowing brown/green.

Given the widespread pollution, which everyone acknowledges, fly life Certainly appears pretty robust.

 

[joffun]

Oh yes it is. Went down to Wierend this am, and the water is a murky green. I fear that it will only get worse.
But chub seem to love size2 mepps, as do the May fish.