A double booked Wye

 Yes when we turned up in the car park on the Wye there were other anglers there and we started to get worried. The keeper explained that they had a new system for bookings and there had been a couple of teething problems. However he said that our party could fish on the members water today - what a treat!

It was a bit damp and there wasn't much fly coming off at all so fishing was hard. I went up the pool with different dries and nymphs without success. however what a fantastic place to be. There were dippers and great wagtails bobbing around all day and as i looked through the bridge there was a water vole just crossing the river. 

I thought the fish would be in the deeper water so for the afternoon i decided to try upstream where the flow was a bit slower and see if i could target fish. Martin had fish rising in front of him so i walked a little further upstream and there was a fish rising on the far bank between two bushes. I did a really smart cast across, mended my line and saw the fish come out of the deep and hammer my black klinkerhammer. What a beautiful brownie.

  

I had a few other takes on the same method but they didn't stick. The mayfly by now had started to come off and as i sat by this pool i watched one hatch by the bush and drift downstream only to be hammered by a trout. So i changed to a Grey woolf and cast the same way and crash, it had taken me and i landed another brownie. 

A little wile later i could see martin into a fish that was really bending his rod so went along to net it for him - it was great 2 pound rainbow. 

It was definitely a real treat to fish the members water and learned loads about the beat should i ever be lucky enough to fish it again.