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With the Usk running high I made a late decision (thankfully) to switch to the Honddu. It had a bit of colour from overnight rain but not too high.
A fun day flicking a duo into likely pockets. A steady trickle of olives from 12:30 only raised one fish that I witnessed, but it wasn't tempted by my emerger and after 10mins it sensibly disappeared. Seven fish to net, and lost another couple. Mostly around 9-10", and a leviathan of 18", that had me in tree roots and around rocks. I'm amazed it stayed on. Lots of crouching and kneeling, so sore knees tomorrow. Have to get some knee-pads.

7 Trout

Nothing hatching. Air temperature low. Had a couple of bumps on a pheasant-tail nymph but very quiet. Water: clear, good flow but easily waded, with care. A beautiful stream. Site Access. Easy parking and short walk to river. Well described and easily followed.

2 Trout

a challenging mornings fishing, Mainly fished beaded PTN's and spiders but didnt see any fish and certainly didnt look like catching anything. Reasonably easy access to the water but the barbed wire fencing in places was a bit worrying in expensive waders... very tight in some places with the overhanging trees but I am sure guys who are used to fishing this type of water (I am not one of them yet) would have had no problems here and probably caught a bagful...

We were staying five minutes from this beat, so I managed to get out for a few hours. Fished a GRHE and caught 4 brownies, largest around 10 inches.

4 Trout

The river is a bit low , caught one small trout on an Adams dry

1 Trout

A very disappointing beat which is very difficult to access and is certainly not as mentioned one mile of double bank fishing, I could only access two small sections with the best spot being by the footbridge, no fish caught or seen!

4 Trout

Looked good, but no indication of any fish present.

Managed around 2/3rds of the beat today, starting from the bottom, where most of the decent pools seem to be located. Fished klink-n-dink as nothing rising despite decent hatches of olives and mayfly. Once above the footbridge, the middle section is quite hard work in stronger flow, and it wasn't until I reached the Rising Sun camping area that some more likely pools were evident. There are a couple of easy exit points about half way up the next field, and that was enough for me. Five fish around 10" and one at 14", all taking the nymph.

6 Trout