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River in good condition. Trout caught between 6 and 8 inches. Flies used - GRHE and small caddis in late afternoon.

8 Trout

Decent flow but not as much colour as I would have liked. Surprisingly few flies hatching or fish rising today so all fish on weighted nymph.

9 Trout

3 Trout

Slow start,but for reason the fast shallow runs we’re producing good fish.
Lower beat full of children in inflatables, aprox 12 with a few adults that walked up from aberbran campsite,totally wiped out the dry fly flats lower down,but very few rising,only 2 seen ,hooked and lost on emerger,all Fish caught on 3.5 mm copper hare ear tungsten bead.strange day good pools very quite.
The bridge pool had swimmers in by penpont house,so day cut short and went home at 3 pm.

23 Trout

What a day, the sun shone from dawn till dusk and the river looked good for a fish, still falling after the deluge of last week with a tinge of colour, I was confident today might be the day I catch my first salmon as I entered the water.
Less than half an hour later I was into a fish, a good tug sent a shock up my arm and I was into my very first salmon, what an adrenaline rush! The awesome power and speed of a salmon didn’t disappoint, it also showed itself more than once but after about 3 minutes it came off leaving me shaking like a leaf.
I did have a good trout later in the day but I’ll have to wait a little longer for my salmon. A fab day, thank you.

1 Trout

14 Trout

After an evening before with no luck on the same beat with the river perfect and a weather forecast of bright sunshine today, I got to the river at dawn hopefully to get a few hours in before the sun got too much.

Took a solid fresh run fish about 12lb in the bridge pool about 7am, on a Usk Grub tube

Nothing else seen apart a huge amount of Shad, especially in the Rock Pool. Had more than 15 from there in one run of the pool, a lot of stripping!

1 Salmon

One brown trout caught and released.

1 Trout

3 Trout