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Both fish caught on worm bait, will be booking again soon

2 Trout

River high but clear and very cold. No hatch. Nymphed all day for a trout and a grayling.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

caught the trout on the salmon fly on the switch rod, no takes on the nymphs a good hatch of olives in the afternoon managed to catch 4 grayling on the drys lots of fish rising up the river

2 Trout, 4 Grayling

Very high, fast water. Difficult going. 1 small grayling (returned).

1 Grayling

4 x trout 6-9 inches, Goldbead Hare's Ear nymph. Obviously. I don't think we are going to see rising fish for a while yet, so it was a case of trundling a nymph along the bottom of some of the slower pools.

4 Trout

Saw a window and went for it. Lower river still unfishable so choose a beat higher up. Spinning am on beat 3 and 4 and after lunch fly on 5 and 6. Nice to be out for the first time this year.

I started when the river was 1ft 10 ins on the Brecon webcam and it was carrying quite a bit of colour - more than you would really like for trout. I managed a pounder fishing spiders towards the bottom of the beat but the downstream wind wasn't great. Just a few LDOs appeared and nothing responded so I headed to the top of the beat where there was a lovely hatch of LDOs underway with March Browns in among them, but nothing moving to them. I spotted a sole riser and he took my artifical, so another pounder. By about 2pm the March Brown hatch was pretty heavy and quite steady but nothing moved to them. Then at about 3pm with the river having dropped back a few inches and starting to clear quite nicely the fish switched on for about 15-20 minutes hitting emergers and the odd dun. I pricked two fish and by the time I was ready to target some more, the river went back to sleep. It was always going to be a difficult day but great to see such healthy hatches and no doubt the fish will start to rise in earnest soon.

2 Trout

Went out just to wet a new line, river rising and cold so did'nt stay long

6 Trout