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Saturday saw the first of the trout courses for the year, we had three attendees. During the day we covered traditional wet fly techniques and Czech nymphing.

All in all nine fish were caught with everyone catching something. The best fish was a beautifully conditioned but out of season Grayling that came out of a very fast shallow run during demonstration of Czech nymphing.

The odd fish could be seen moving through out the day and although I saw non hatching, plenty of Grannom were on the water

Good days fishing. Plenty of activity through the morning and afternoon, although the evening got a little quiet.
Fish up to around a pound, mainly in the faster water rather than the flat glides. Lots of salmon smolts evident in the pools and runs. Large dark olives and quite a few Grannom about especially the adults coming back to egg lay in the afternoon and evening. A few fish moving to the dries, fish however mainly taken on small nymphs pheasant tails and hares ears.

Perfect fishing day. Rise started about 11.45 continued till till 5.00. Numerous trout to 14" and a few grayling. A mixed rise of flies - few grannom odd march brown, iron blues and a few dark olives. River showing its bones - you can now wade across to the other bank. Best to fish the runs. Caught most fish on ginger sedge this colour I find I can see best in most lights. It was worth plugging away in the fast runs again and again. Some heavy tugs and one break from fish unseen. Lookimg forward to next visit.

A beautiful place but I found it quiet in relation to fish activity. 4 grayling caught on a brown klinkhammer down off the planks at the lower end of the beat. Around 1.5lb each.
Not much activity in the evening when the magic hour brings them all up. It was made worse by my clumsiness falling in and getting soaked too! A wading stick is a must, along with spare clothes!

A great return to this lovely piece of water, 6 browns, 4 quite small but two of about 12/13 inches all returned. In the afternoon had a 1 1/2 lb Grayling returned without touching the fish, caught on GH olive.

Cold, dull day but sporadic hatches of large dark olive after 1pm, and a few march browns mid-afternoon. One grayling on GRHR gold head, and 3 grayling and 2 trout (to 1.5lb) on Kites Imperial and Klinkhammer.

Overcast day but quite a lot of activity for an hour about 2pm when there was a good rise to March browns with some decent fish showing. Caught 2 brown trout around 12 oz on a G&H sedge fished on the top and a third trout of about 1LB on a czech nymph later in the afternoon. All were in good condition and fighting fit. This is a nice water for dry fly and easy wading compared to some of the Wye beats. It would be useful to know where the river is likely to be fordable-as always the bigest fish were under the opposite bank and its a long cast across tricky currents on this water!

2 small grayling and 2 trout, all returned. First trout about half a pound in pretty good condition, second trout about 1.5 lbs still in need of fattening up! Would have been 2 lbs+ in "summer" condition. All on nymphs. Very enjoyable day on excellent fly water under the tuition of Frank Williams.

It was a cold, overcast day with only a sporadic hatch in the early afternoon. Two of us fished. I Czech nymphed most of the time for just one grayling and one trout. My friend fished a traditional team of wet flies and had a little more success taking three grayling and a trout. All the grayling were around the pound mark and gave a good account of themselves. All in all, a very enjoyable day in spite of the very cold water and overcast conditions.

One brown trout ~ 1lb (fry pattern, in the slack above the mouth of the Clettwr).