Wye Magic

[flatsghost]

As part of the Grayling society symposium at Llandrindod Wells last weekend we were forced to fish the upper Wye in the Doldowlod area - tough luck! The weather gods smiled upon us with cloudless skies, sun and little breeze after the morning mist burned off. Levels a little high but good clarity. Myself and two colleagues split up to try and tempt a 'lady' or two. Starting with traditional rod and line brought some results and by midday a sporadic hatch started with a few risers.
I came to a section where a large rock divided the strong stream and left a long quieter strip which looked inviting. My rod set up failed to hold it in the required zone so out came Tenkara. With this I was able to hold across the fast area and fish properly. Instant success to an Olive nymph with grayling of 35 and 40 cm plus others. Got one or two on Grayling steel blue dry a little later. Once again, this proved to me that the method does have great advantages in certain scenarios. Cust - I would not have believed a rod could bend so much!!
Have been trying to attach a piccie but it has not worked.
One of my colleagues - 'Dogsbody' also had Tenkara success to the same size of fish. Awesome day.

[gary]

Oct 23, 2012 14:34:57 GMT flatsghost said:

Have been trying to attach a piccie but it has not worked.

Sounds like a superb day on the Wye flatsghost! Really glad you got a decent bend in your Eso rod

would love to see your photos too... Simon has the following step by step listed on the home page:

Posting photos into post on the forum is very easy when you know how! This is how I post photos.
1.First thing you need to do is open a free account with a photo hosting site. The one I use is PHOTOBUCKET, once you have signed up and logged in you are ready to start.
2.Along the top you will see a green button, with the word UPLOAD, click this.
Then click SELECT PHOTOS & VIDEOS.
3.Select the picture you have on Your computer that you want to up load and click open.
The photo will the upload to the site.
You will see it at the bottom of the page. You can then add a title & description if wanted.
4.Click save and continue to my album.
From the menu at the top select edit photos then select uploaded photo.
5.Here you can adjust the picture. The one you will need is RESIZE
6.Click resize, then in the first new size box enter 600, make sure keep proportions is checked. And then click on apply, then at the bottom click on replace original.
7.On the right hand side you should see a box called links with 4 options below, you want the image code, when you click on it, it should say copied.
8.Now go to the forum post you are writing.
9.If you now right click and past you will see the code you just copied, it starts with and ends with the same.
10.If you now preview your post now you should see the picture?
The picture will appear where you place the code in the post, I tend to leave a blank line above the code and a blank line below.

That's it, hope this helps a few of you, any other questions just ask.

Simon.

Tight lines

Gary

[flatsghost]

Hopefully this will be the picture!
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[gary]

Here you go flatsghost:



What a stunning fish! no wonder you enjoyed the day so much

Tight lines

Gary

[flatsghost]

Cheers Gary. I made the mistake of thinking I could add a picture after the post was done but it seems that is not possible. Yes, nice fish and not the only one. One of my colleagues had a 45cm fish on dry fly - brilliant.
Off to the Wye in Derbyshire this weekend to fish Haddon Hall with the Wild Trout Trust - never been there but I believe it is good.
Thanks for your help
Glyn

[hobgoblin]

Flatsghost,
I too went to the w/e at LD, not been to one for a while and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

On Sunday I fished on the R. Lugg at Mortimer's Cross, we had been advised that it might be still running high and it was.
Wading was getting a little bit to dangerous for my liking where I wanted to fish, so I was somewhat restricted.
I did manage one fish on a leadhead fished on a 12' Iwana. There was a hatch during the afternoon of small upwings but no fish were rising to them. Would love to go back and fish it in better conditions.

Hobgoblin

[flatsghost]

Hi Hobgoblin
Yes tough luck on the high water. The Lugg takes forever to run off which can be a good and bad thing. It is a good beat and has some good fish. Glad you enjoyed the weekend as I was involved in the preparations and the Saturday events! It was a pretty good weekend all in all but a shame that some got good fishing and some struggled. Not sure if Mortimers Cross has a wash off policy or not - you might get another day if it has - check that out.
Do you get your name from the Beer type?? It is on draught at a pub I go to once a week!
Cheers and hope to see you at Pickering next year or maybe the Dee trip with Orange otter.