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Only fished the top pools with a fly for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Fished the Usk for trout in the morning instead as prospects were poor with the persistent dark peaty stain in the Wye.
Nothing seen or caught.

nothing seen

nothing again from this beat

high water perfect for this beat. nothing caught or seen

No fish caught or seen
Regards
Denis

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

We started the day with a climb up Twyn y Garth hill to the Garth Gun. Spectacular views and the hatch of Coch-y-Bondhu beetles up there had to be seen to be believed! Shame they were not on the river!

The water at Llangoed was rather discoloured… visibility 2ft maximum and more foam than usual. Lots of sedges and a few duns emerging, mostly yellow mays. Haven’t seen as many small fish in the river for a long time that is good news… perhaps the absence of cormorants and goosanders has something to do with that?

Equal numbers of trout and OOS grayling biggest 10 inches … and one OOS dace! There was a shoal of them which is good to see, avoided casting to them as a day too soon!

We stayed till 2100 in the hope that the bigger fish might show but only one did … a salmon that did a majestic cruise past us with a large bow wave before turning to show us his flank. Great to see!

6 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Other

22 Trout, 3 Grayling

The odd fish showing but only 1 trout taken on dry fly. The rest all on bead head nymphs or emergers taken sub-surface. Twaite shad (a first) up to 2lbs. Plenty of fry observed in the margins.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 4 Other

2 Trout