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3 fish on worm and Polyballs

3 Trout

A pleasant spring day with the river looking in perfect condition. The water was very cold although the flies were coming off steadily. No Trout seen rising or caught on nymphs.

Beautiful day, felt like first day of spring. River though extremely cold with no activity. No fish caught.

Nothing seen or caught. The river was quite high with the Ross on Wye gauge at 1.45m, so spinning was the order of the day.

1 Trout

2 x trout 13 and 14 inches, Woodcock and Hare's Lug and Olive Jingler. The river is running pretty high, but at least, on this beat, I don't have to ford it! Large dark olives hatching again between 12 and 1.30, but rather a lack of trout responding at the surface. As it turned out, I had four takes and converted two of them.

2 Trout

Really struggled today, no fish caught, a very sparse and short lived hatch of olives about 1pm but no fish responded.

water up at just under 1ft6 on brecon gauge which made for hairy wading in places , some areas just too powerful to wade safely . all trout came to heavily weighted baetis nymphs. there was a steady hatch somewhere between 1-2pm sadly only a few rises so carried on nymphing. all trout between 12 - 16 inches with five lost to hook pulls in the fast water one of which was heavy

8 Trout

Fished the length of the Chapel catch. River up and pushing through, but decent clarity. Should really have been spinning as despite the fastest sinking set up I had it was still barely 2ft down on the inside. No sign of any salmon. A few March Browns spluttered off around 12.15 but nothing rose to them.

Had a great day as I’m new to fly fishing, tried with nymphs in the morning with no success, then noticed a rise about 2 o’clock and caught all fish on dry shuttlecock pattern and March brown. Will be booking this beat again soon.

10 Trout, 4 Grayling