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Lovely spring day on the Upper Wye. Llanstephan gauge at around 2’, river clear with visibility of 3ft.
Fished the main spring pools twice with a mix of flies off a medium sink tip. Water temp around 8C and warmed a little through the day.
Trout were a by catch. one thin, two in good shape.
Probably a bit early yet for a salmon as none off the river so far.
The hut was very comfortable and beautifully situated above the Mill Pool.

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Popped up worms

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Beautiful day and a lovely stretch of river. There were both LDOs and March Browns coming off, but no fish rising. Strange.
I managed to rise 3 fish and catch one -- an immaculate wild brown trout of ~ 1lb.
I looked upstream and it looked like tricky wading (at this height of water) so I just recce's it for future visits.

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1 very small Rainbow caught and returned. Fished from 8.30am-4pm trying variety of methods off West bank of reservoir. No other bites or fish rising.

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River still fairly high at 0.576 on the Brecon gauge. Two or three bursts of fly hatching trout rising from 12.15 for half an hour or so, then all quiet. Warm and sunny. Good to see some improvements to access. Electric fence keeping in the bullocks in the first field. Japanese knotweed getting a grip at the top of the beat.
One fish caught, but it was a good one. 17 inches and very fat. Good to see this beat still produces some good trout.

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Lovely day and not bad wading but you definitely need a wading stick for safety . Very slippery and fast in places.
A couple of good March Browns hatches but saw few rising.
Caught on Pete Buckey’s Bushy March Browns fly from Fulling Mill . Absolutely fab in the fast streamy water and the fish exploded onto it. Caught 3 and left after 2 pm so not too bad. Saw a couple of big fish in the slack water but too far out for me to wade /reach without drag.

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beautiful sunny day but not much of a hatch ... a few olives and grannom .

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