Great day!

​We are so lucky with the weather and the river.  River depth was .6m above normal.  The water was clear but cold @ 13C.  Last week the river temp was warmer @ 16C.  Full sun with a little bit of cloud around noon and light breeze.

We fished the lower end of beat 3, towards beat 4.  Panda is getting quite good at fishing with the double-handed fly rod.  Chris and Sandy are looking good with the lighter weight fly rod, using a March Brown.  Sarah used Devon Minnow lures.

Panda lost two fish.  Sarah caught a nice little Shad, beautiful.  It weighted about 1.5 pounds.  Beautiful colour.  Photo attached.  Sorry about the fingers. That increases her different species of fish caught on the River Wye to 13.  Amazing!  Sarah gets to keep the Kingfisher badge for another week.  

Panda did a recce up the river to Beat 2 and viewed a clutch of barbel idling in the clear water of the river bank with one lovely salmon nearby.  A perfect cast between the barbel and salmon caused Mr Salmon to inspect but not take the lure.  Exciting to see such beautiful fish from a distance.

Doreen now comes to the river with Jan.  Paul stopped down too for coffee and then Rob stopped by for a chat and to report that he caught a lovely 12-pound salmon on a fly.  We are going to have to buy a Kingfisher-bus to transport our "fans".