Mayfly time

Had a great trip to the River Wye yesterday and a couple of mayfly hatches. They were not massive hatches but enough to keep the fish interested. It was not easy fishing but rewarded with fish like this.

There were a few fish rising when we started but they were not interested in my flies. It was only later morning when i saw a few mayfly about that i put on a grey woolf. One had risen in the pool below on the far bank and it took a few casts to drift over the edge of the reeds where it had come it. But when it did "SPLASH" and i lifted into a lovely fish.

I kept moving up and down the river as the fish seemed very easily scared off but they did return to similar lies. Also you seemed to need a bit of stealth and cast upstream correctly and accurate, but when you did they took the mayfly so visciously that you thought they had come miles to get it. Late afternoon there was a downpour but this seemed to start off a bigger hatch and more fish rising. I had my last fish at about 6.30 and it was all quiet. We left for home thinking it was over but i bet the massive hatch was later!