I'm assuming that with those outfits he is looking for trout rather than salmon but sadly although the river at Goodrich has a few trout it is not really a noted trout stretch. There will be far more chub, dace, pike and barbel around and there might be a few perch and grayling about.
The way to fish a big river is to break into smaller sections and treat like a number of smaller rivers. There will not be huge hatches during the day at this time of year and the best opportunities will come in the evening with hatches of sedges.
A feature of the Wye at this time of year are the thick ranunculus beds and although it is not easy fishing this is where you are more likely to find the odd trout.
If it were me I'd work the runs between the ranunculus tresses with a streamer on the 7wt during the day looking for anything predatory, possibly trying trickling a Peeping Caddis over the gravel in and behind the weedbeds with the chance of a barbel picking it up, and then go back for the last couple of hours of daylight with the 4wt with a small Elk Hair Sedge and look for fish rising amongst the weed or under overhanging trees.
Down at Monmouth we used to get some huge trout nymphing right in the thick of the weed beds, you could see them humping up the weed but getting a fly into them was another thing altogether.
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“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary
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