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River very low, and the fish were concentrating more in the fast water and deeper pools. Very bright and difficult conditions all in all. 1 fish taken of about 1lb.

1 Trout

River running up a bit after the recent rain and carrying slight colour. All fish taken on nymphs with very little surface activity. Bankside vegetation growing well making access to some sections a bit tricky.

3 Trout

Was nice to give the Kington beat a bash today , water looked at a lovely height when I tackled up at ten , initially rigged up with a size eighteen tungsten flashback ptn. No obvious rises at the start of the beat , and the first pool after creeping under the bridge produced nothing , which is unusual , as I've had a brownie out of there on the last few visits . . . . .

The first brownie only stayed on for a while , felt like a decent fish , the next did stay , quickly admired then released . The colours of the Arrow trout are always a delight !!!!

Around elevenish some splashy rises started to show , no obvious fly life that I could see they were after , and only a few mayflies showing sporadically , so opted for an eighteen parachute Adams , seemed to do the trick , and had some great fun , only small fish at the heads of pools hitting the dry fly !!!

One decent brownie of about ten inches , but the others were all between six and eight inches , cracking condition , and tubby after feeding well probably on a mix of upwings and caddies. The bed of the river is alive with caddis , and insect life is varied around the river , saw stone flies , few mays and a variety of other upwings . . . . .

Was a nice four hours sport , five Caught and released and several long and short range releases !!!!, Shall give one of the other Arrow beats a crack in a few days , great fun as always . . . . . . . .

5 Trout

I had just over two hours during the afternoon on my first visit to this appealing beat. It was an overcast day and the water was still running a bit cloudy. There was a reasonably good hatch of mayfly and a small amount of surface activity. With first a Grey Wolff and then a Grey Drake I managed to miss an embarrassingly large number of offers (most of them from fairly small fish so far as I could see) and then lost a better size one. It's not always easy to get to the banks above the weir. Beware of the electric fence which rewarded my carelessness by giving my back a terrific thump as I climbed under it!

First day out for a year. Rusty fishing, rusty water, clever fish. No catches.

Very enjoyable evenings fishing, 4 WBT to an Adams dry and one to a hares ear. Lots of fly life but nothing rising????

5 Trout

There is a place on this beat that always has a fish or two rising no matter what the conditions and it was a good job today. I took one on the way up the beat and another on my way back a few hours later, both took a small dry. I did have other chances missing half a dozen rises but I suspect they were only small fish.
This really is a beautiful stretch of water and I found myself standing in the warm sunshine looking up river willing there to be a fish or two rising but it just didn’t happen, very difficult on the dry fly with a noticeable lack of emerging insects on the water. There were a few spinners about though, some of which were bright red.

2 Trout

Water very coloured, and only an extreme optimist would fish it expecting to catch a salmon. Being such a person, I fished it anyway. Salmon must be short sighted, as I caught no less than 10 shad. 3 salmon seen, but the rest must have been hiding. Sad to see this lovely river run chocolate brown due to farm runoff. Soil health obviously not a priority in this catchment area. Thank you Mick for you wise advice, always heeded!

10 Other

Had several rises to dry fly but blanked. I'm a novice river angler, but determined to try the Usk again as it is a stunning location.