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sporadic hatch of LDO and few March Browns, from 1pm onwards.
Penpont house offers a very good farm shop, the flowers for the wife has secured another fishing trip

2 Trout

Lovely sunny day but only a couple of brief hatches. Couldn’t capitalise using imitation march brown. Two lost fish on nymphs. Dead in afternoon.

Lovely day on lovely water. Fishing very difficult (read nothing caught) until a moderate March Brown hatch lasting an hour from about 2.00 pm. Lost 4 fish - two of them good - and caught 3. The fish were quite fussy as to which March brown imitations that would fool them - neither emergers, duns of jinglers were consistently taken. Nymph fishing before and after the hatch was unsuccessful.

3 Trout

3 Trout

Beautiful and varied beat, and sufficiently far up the Usk system to run reasonably low and clear even when the river is a bit high on the Brecon gauge.

Walked all the way to the bottom of the beat and immediately caught two good trout on orange tag tungsten nymphs just upstream of the bridge, one just over 2lb, the other just under. Fighting very fit! Proceeded upstream from there, and sporadic hatches of March Browns appeared on the some of shallowish flats around 1300-1430, but did not see a single rise to them despite watching patiently and carefully. Carried on nymphing and caught a further 10 inch trout. Tried spiders right in front of Penpont House at the upper end of the beat and had a pluck but no fish.

3 Trout

6 Trout

Went for a window in the weather. Some bug life but didn't find a fish. Plenty of likely spots so will have another go.

1 Trout

A lovely day on Penpont beat fish showing throughout. No tight lines for me today.
Thank you

1 trout 2.5 lbs on goldhead returned. Hard work on low river..very clear

1 Trout