No problems with weather conditions though it may be hot tomorrow.  Rest of the river should come into ply with hopefully some fish up to and above Builth Wells for the first time this year and lower beats clearing further.

Fish from Rectory this morning. 8lbs to Mike Timmis  Fly.  Plus two more at 10lbs
12lb fish from the Rocks plus two yesterday 7 and 10
two from Boatside Hay on Wye to James Hobbs on a Cascade
Rectory. 16lbs to Stephen Haberson fly
Whitney Court  20lb to Brian Prestbury on a F/C


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Saw the below remarks from the WUF Director. Pretty much nonsense and speculation.
Many anglers having endured many weeks of dire conditions with no fish were not to know, though it was suggested on here,  that these beats on the upper river would suddenly spring into life.  Too many have spent time and money on fishing empty water this season for no reward to be a bit cautious.
More anglers don't necessarily mean more fish.   If for instance there are five fish in a pool one good angler might catch them all - ten anglers fishing it won't catch any more will they.  can't catch if they are not there as witnessed on these same beats the last couple of months..
You fish where you think there might be some chance i.e witness Mike Timmis fishing Rectory and not Wyesham -obvious why.
Come off it Simon -WUF have sold tickets on beats where you knew the angler had no chance.  All that happened yesterday was that fish arrived, river was fishable and local anglers in particular cashed in.
Had you been 60 miles or more away you wouldn't have caught yours would you?


Good job for you it wasn't fully booked though guess to you that wouldn't have made much difference.   As for other salmon rivers, even the better ones, angler numbers drop off as catches decrease -and the first part of that statement does not always result  in the latter part.
Sell them something fit for purpose and they will come.

FOR INSTANCE:  That's a long way to come for zilch.  A phone call could have prevented that debacle.

B. W. from LEIGH ON SEA

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (17 hours ago)

Area:Lower Wye

Beat:Goodrich Court

Fishing:Salmon

No. of Anglers:2

River level dropping but slowly, very coloured to coloured even for spinning packed up after 45 minutes waste of time nothing showing.

I bang on about this a lot, but yesterday:
Spreadeagle was fished by 1 rod in the afternoon - 2 fish
Rectory was fished by 3 rods - 8 fish
Gromain and Upper Llanstephan 4 rods in the afternoon - 2 fish
Nyth by 1 rod - 2 fish

Most beats under-rodded and no one on Ty-newydd, Abernant etc

Yesterday the river from Builth to Glasbury was perfect, dropping from 1ft 11" to 1ft 9" after 8 days of high water. It is was being fished like other major salmon rivers, it would have produced a shed load more fish yesterday.

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Later reply.
"Someone else replied to the WUF Directors post on the same forum,
A perfectly sensible and logical reply in my opinion;
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As a Wye novice I would agree that there are more fish around than the river gets credit for. However, I think that the under-rodding is part and parcel of an inconsistent performance by the river, this year and in others. 

The river just hasn't yet recovered to the stage where people have the confidence to take a week of fishing a year in advance and as a result there isn't always a consistent presence on the river. Therefore, people need to have the confidence that there will be fish there when they travel to take advantage of the opportunities presented by a good rise like this. It's easy enough if you live close by but gets harder if you are anywhere north of Birmingham, west of Swindon or south of Bristol. That's why it isn't being fished like the Tay or Dee or Tweed; or TBH probably the Thurso most days! 

This season hasn't produced the goods so far (for good reason) the main spring run hasn't turned up (in catches), despite what would appear to be a good number of rods out, certainly mid-lower river. Catches have been relatively thin on the ground and therefore it's not a surprise that the river isn't inundated with visiting rods. 

A great day for some local rods is good but it won't lead to loads of visitors hitting the river, by the time they read of it the opportunity is likely to have diminished. You're a crack fisherman by all accounts and this is the first I've read of you taking a fish yet this year. Normally could we not expect the upper river to have produced earlier, especially given the good water? 

I find it hard to believe that more people don't fish the Builth club water, maybe opening some of those upper river beats to them would be a good way of increasing rod levels? Even at a relatively cheap £45 a day it takes a lot of expensive casting practice before you learn the ropes on a lovely beat like Gromain. Half the price or more and rods may increase. 

That said, a great day for the river and I've been trying to manipulate my diary to get down this week. As an illustration, I'll probably end up setting off at 0300 and hitting the river for 4 or 5 hours before driving back north to finish off a day's work.