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Nothing caught. There were very few safe access points to the lower half of the beat due to the river depth, high banks and fallen trees. The upper section was more inviting and gave more opportunity to fish but wading was still precarious.

All fish healthy, and safely returned.

6 Trout

Very little showing ... even during the short hatch mid afternoon.
Three fish missed fishing spiders in the pool closest to downstream limit.

Hatches of LDO and MB between 12-2, short and frantic feeding spells. Half a dozen rises on a hatching olive dry and two fish landed, frustratingly the biggest ones came off! Pretty quiet in the afternoon, a few pulls on nymphs but nothing else.

2 Trout

6 Trout

LDO and MB hatched in short bursts from 1pm to 4pm. Two very good fish lost in the first flurry of activity, the bigger of the two would likely have been an Usk PB (c.20”) but broke the connecting knot when close to the net after a wrist aching 10 minute fight. Four fish to 13” eventually made it to hand, all caught on a March Brown Jingler.

4 Trout

Two small 10 inch trout for me today, lost two others, mainly due to poor line control. Weather was cloudy with sunny intervals and little wind, river running a little coloured and fast. A difficult day, as the only fish I found were in some very fast water, wading was tough due to to the very strong flow. I had to use very heavy nymphs to get down fast enough, even so the drifts were very short.

2 Trout

Bit deep to wade at the moment had a good 15 minutes of rising fish

6 Trout

Washed off

High water levels, bank overgrown. Very few opportunities to get a cast in. Bit disappointing.