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Fished dry fly and nymph, upstream. There were few LDOs and March Browns comin off, but I only saw one rising trout. A strong cold wind from about 13:00. Water temperature 10C
First day out this seson and though no fish caught it was good to be back on a river.

Bad idea - too much water - didnt fish much.

River was very low and it was cold. We fished from 11am to 6pm and caught two trout both around 10 inches.

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water is now getting quite cool, the water height up and down all day as the rain came through. all fish caught on the french leader some down the bottom pools and a few up at the falls. Nothing huge but good entertainment.

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All caught on French leader style nymph, plenty of water bowling through but still clear enough. Heavy showers most of the afternoon. Nothing over 11 “ but nice to be fishing again after the drought.

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Connected with 4 trout on the small side. A picturesque place.

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Cooler than of late, cloudy, some showers and a consistent downstream breeze. Fished from lower limit up to the Cilieni confluence. Surprisingly sparse in terms of rising fish, particularly in the Quarry pool. Didn’t switch to dry flies until reaching the Junction pool where two or three trout were consistently rising on the far side. One trout on heavy nymph in fast water at top of Quarry and one off the top in Junction. Plenty of shade all the way up from heavily tree lined banks helps create a cooling effect on this beat.

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Very low now not surprisingly ( 0.2 m on the Trallong gauge ) and very clear but it was useful now to scope out the river bed & now see it is predominately flattish bedrock runs below quarry pool . Moved a few fish though on a largeish black klink.
Quarry pool is now a bit of a glassy mill pond & a decent number of fish (smallish?) topping at times and guessing they where on aphids so left them to it! The run in to the pool is lovely but a spied a pesky mink working the water along the bank so that didnt help! Said mink then paddled across the river to my bank , then spied me and swam back across again fully submerged,I didnt know they could do that!
The junction pool is really lovely but very slow now so sat on it quietly hoping for some spinner or sedge action in the evening. A decent number of fish started moving here and there in the last hour of light but on what I dont know ! Couldnt crack the code in time before they switched off but a nice bar of Usk bronze (nothing big & on a v small tan klink) took pity & saved me from getting skunked when the bats came out . Such graceful things on the wing to stand and watch.
A couple of big fish moving in the tail too but they where having none of it ! Next time....
Wading was still good overall but some slime in the bankside slack water now and is quite greasy.
Such a lovely place here , very picturesque with a really nice wild feel to it all.

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