River Wye 2013

[sewinfly]

Fished Upper Bigsweir yesterday with Ken we knew the river was still carrying.But what took me was the colour in the water like a green type colour. With no rain of late thought it must be down to snow melt and run off.

I suppose that's the problem fishing the very low beats.
Clarity for the fly was ok some some 18" plus.

We started on the fly fishing heavy sink tips and tubes and were fishing nice off some of the croys.
The inevitable happened to Ken he moved place and stripped some line to begin his cast as he lifted his line he thought he was stuck on a big rock and then the line kited across the river with the rod thumping down then all went slack.

Gutted he was.

The river started to push back as the tide came in and rose a fair bit.We fished hard all day and Ken managed another take by fishing in the slack margins next to the bank, but again no hook up.
No fish seen at all but they were there

The river had dropped only 2" all day on our marker.

Nice place to fish and will be back again.

Getting ready for the day

The far left where Ken lost his fish.

Looking up river.

Japanese fighter pilot getting ready ""$%^


Had a good day and a laugh but alas no Springers.

Sewinfly..........

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Thanks for the report.
Do you guys not get access to the fishing hut's down there ?

[sewinfly]

Mar 31, 2013 17:52:00 GMT @synapse said:

Thanks for the report.
Do you guys not get access to the fishing hut's down there ?

Hi

The nice hut belongs to syndicate members if I am right.
We were fishing as free day rods so we have no access to it.

It was not a problem as we could change there and have a cupppa and a bite to eat.

Sewinfly.................

[sewinfly]

Out early this morning on U.B. and finally landed my first Wye salmon which was great after losing 2 in the past 2 weeks.Fish was a hen and came in at 11Ib 6 0z.
Fish took a Silver Shrimp fly to a floating line.
Swam off strong.

Several fish seen and some fresh ones as well.



Sewinfly....................