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A red letter session .... fished between ten and quarter to two !!! Sublime dry fly sport today ....The wild streams are at there best now, having previously seen this morning some remarks on catch returns !! Im sure folks visualise a wild stream as a babbling Cherry Brook as described well by Mike Weaver ..... The local ones demand some graft i can tell you !! Jungle tactics, go armed with your secateurs too, to do a bit of a clip back here and there ....I always do twenty minutes tidy up where ever I am !!!!
Pocket water was were lots of the six to eight inch fish nailed my dry fly !!! Tops of streamy pools also great fun ....
Nothing huge, all peas in a pod , between six and ten inches, but still fun with the six foot, two weight.... superb stuff !!!
Running perfect now, and fish feisty and aggressive...
Here's a point .... whys no one fishing the Usk Wild Streams ???? I see they've hardly been touched this season ... Bran, Honddu, some fab water there too ....
Had a quick recce up at Oakfield beat, just up the road too, looking nice... back here soon!! Clients in the Elan Valley for a couple of days now .... looks like perfect drizzly weather inbound too ....sorted !!! A cracking few hours on a local favourite stream.....

23 Trout

3 Trout and several (missed) bites at the Powder Works pool
1 Trout at the Rock Pool

4 Trout

4 Trout

2 Trout

4 Trout

A good days fishing again on this beat. Nine fish caught altogether. A few were hooked but lost, and I had many other very quick takes that I didn't connect with. Fish caught in Abernant stream at the bottom of the entrance gate, in Alexander's and at the very bottom of the beat. Most fish caught were small with the exception of one lovely brown trout. (See photo) I fished various spiders with a GH Hares ear on the point.

5 Trout, 4 Grayling

Had a Sunday evening phone call to say my job was cancelled for Monday ,so I grabbed my rods and headed up to llyn bugeilyn what a place it never disappoints caught 10 on a black klinkhamer,but missed 20 plus .

10 Trout

Fished from 10.30 to 17.30. 4 small trout to the net all released. I didn’t see a single fish rise all day. All caught on parachute Adam’s size 16
Induced 5 rises but no takes. All action from 17.30 on

4 Trout

If the previous return claims catching 16 trout is a 'score draw', then we were comprehensively defeated today with a big fat blank!

The beat itself is beautiful and offers a good mix of fast runs, flats, gutters, and riffles. At approximately 1.5 miles it's almost impossible to cover it all in a day and we didn't get to fish the upper reaches. As many previous anglers have attested, the river here is dominated by treacherous bedrock, making the wading very, very tricky and not for the fainthearted.

Conditions were pretty good, temperature was around 20c for most of the day and the river had a tinge of colour after the rain last week, however, we saw very few fish rising throughout the day and no hatch materialised. We tried a variety of methods, and aside from tempting one decent fish on a dry which came off after a few headshakes, it was a frustrating day.

Warm day, few rising fish . Moderate breeze. Managed to get one good sized trout on a black cdc. No other fish caught.

1 Trout