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A cool day for the time of year and the river a little murky after heavy rain 48 hours previous. Some mayfly present and fish rising, though not in abundance, from 1100. Seeing the mayfly I tied on a similar dry fly with a nymph dropper, a few trout rose to the dry but none took it, eventually caught a brown trout which took the nymph. It was returned. I fished until about 1700 and would have stayed had I been able to as the fishing was still on.

A very nice beat with easy access and no overhanging trees to catch flies. A nice day of wildlife watching as well with a Goshawk, Oyster catchers and a content looking otter. Easy booking, thank you.

1 Trout

With almost no rise (or hatch, except a few yellow mays) during the day, landed 4 modest fish on the duo (PTN). I was, however, surprised to hook on a small nymph a big fish (2.5 to 3 lbs) in the shallow water near my bank, which jumped and ran hard to a mid-stream snag/rock 20 yards upstream, on which it duly snagged the Klink and broke me. Reminded me of two great fish I lost on the Madison and Gunnison (Montana and Colorado), which I hooked close in to own bank and which ran immediately to a mid-river underwater rock snag and broke me. Given that the snag was nowhere near the lie and that they ran there immediately, I am sure they must have learnt this trick from experience in previously breaking off anglers, and now repeated this on me. Same on the Usk this time - so respect for their brainpower deserved. (Evening rise to duns, maybe BWO's, with another big one wrenching the downstream-trailing fly and breaking the 6x.)

4 Trout

4 Trout

Bright and breezy day with the odd brook dun and a sporadic trickle of yellow mays appearing. Never quite enough hatching to get fish rising happily to the adult duns, but fished dry fly anyway and managed a few mostly to emerger patterns. Couple of rods fishing the opposite bank.

7 Trout

1 Trout

Really good day, with a good rise of trout in the afternoon. Unfortunately no fish due to my lack of finesse, but a very good day on a lovely beat.

Rather quiet day, with high water and just a few grannoms about and little rise. Cool westerly breeze didn't help. French nymphing was fairly successful, but nothing over 12 inches. Couldn't get to the island, where normally one would skip across in gumboots, though I tried!

5 Trout

River high and coloured but clearing with reasonable visibility.
Good hatch of granom caddis from around 10 am with fish rising in the slacker water. Also saw a few large dark coloured stonefly adults on the water and a couple of what looked like brook duns coming off.
Fished dry to risers. Undoubtedly, the most beautiful looking trout I have ever seen. Blue on the gill plates with a blue sheen on the flanks and heavily spotted. Largest fish about 15 inches, all catch and release. My first time fishing in Wales was a wonderful day at a lovely venue.

6 Trout

6 Trout

Unfortunately the rain from the previous evening brought the river up very fast. I arrived at the river at 8.30 am and it was rising , very coloured and full of floating debris. I had a quick go with a flying c but way too much debris floating downstream. I'm not sure if Greenbank has a wash off policy but it would be nice if it has.