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Children's learning day. Not much happening

Water level very low and some difficulty accessing the river due to land slips.

1 Trout

Visited the Tarrell in the morning, showing an abundance of fly life hatching consistently but I didn't see or come in contact with any fish at all. Moved up to the llynfi at lunch time and had 6 lovely fish one being a lovely 11" fish to an olive Klink. Caught on mixture of olive nymph hares ear and dries.

6 Trout

4 brown trout caught, up to about a pound and a half ( I think from 'Tip Pool'). 3 returned, 1 kept. Water level looked quite low (keep in mind this was the first time I have fished here so no basis for comparison!). Spoke to a couple of locals on the water/ in the town - very friendly, welcoming and full of helpful tips! A great day's fishing in beautiful surroundings - I will definitely head back here in the hopefully not too distant future.

4 Trout

1st look at a wild stream beat this year and it was nice to be back! Arrived about 2.30 Quite warm and sunny. Upper monnow would benefit from a little rain as well as my fields back home. Caught 3 trout all about 8" on grhe nymphs. A few rises in the odd deeper pools but not enough to make me change tack. Spotted: dipper, kingfisher and heron and I fished to the end of beat for the first time too. Great few hours!!

3 Trout

Fished the home waters on the middle Wye today (12 degrees air and water) from about 10-3 pm. Found fish midging in glides at arrival, seeming to be monopolised by 8” grayling, several of which took a small HE parachute emerger. Then there were some thin hatches of Grannom, LDOs and either MBs or LBDs (couldn’t get one close up enough to distinguish but they were one of the two) from about 11.30 until 12.45, which got a few fish active up top. I had five trout 10-14” and five ladies 8-12”, mainly on the HE parachute and a couple on a Universal Baetis Ducks Dun. I also saw some hawthorns for the first time this year (also reported from the Usk today).
I thought I heard a rise in the margins behind me at one point and turned around to locate the “rise” only to see an estimated 12lb hen pike with two men in tow coming up river to spawn . They were so preoccupied, they didn’t see me untiI I was almost on them trying to take some pix. Sex has a lot to answer for (as the growing shoals of resident chub and barbel also testify)!
Found a bonus, dead heron as well, so some feathers have gone into a bag in the freezer - more Kites Imperials!
A fun few hours but still very hard fishing. The prevailing cold winds just seem to be killing it. Hopefully the rivers will soon really wake up, though Monday and Tuesday’s forecast cold weather seems unlikely to help?

A wash-off rebooking, originally two rods, now me and my 6 year old son. Wasn't able to fish in the morning and arrived at mid-day with a rise underway. As I walked down to the shingle 2 big fish bow-waved out of the shallows and a cracking fish rose in the very tail of tail pool. I wasted 30mins waiting for it to rise again while fish rose higher up. Explored the beat and found some more rising fish at the bottom of the beat. Took a while to work out what they were on, but #16 dark green loopwing was finally accepted by a couple of 11"ers.
Spent some time teaching my son to cast before going back up to tail pool. Picked up a 12" fish on the loopwing and missed a much bigger one before the rise completely petered out around 2pm.
Changed to klink and dink and worked up the run below. Nothing until the very top and then it was a take a cast. First went just over 2lb in the net, second 3lb 4oz (my best Usk trout for 2 years) and third 1lb 10oz. Quality wild trout! All caught just off the main flow at the very top of the run. Went down and tried the run below the ford with the same tactic. Again nothing until the very top when I picked up a 10"er and missed another take.
Packed up at 3.30pm with the salmon rod unused, despite a salmon showing in the run below tail, it was the trout that had my full focus.

7 Trout

Lovely beat with some nice fly water. Some slow water in some pools that really needs fly to be stripped through. Wading was fairly easy for most accessible pools although got deep in areas which meant you had to back up to get out. Although there was accessible paths / steps down to water I don't think there was enough of these as large sections of river were inaccessible. Would have been nice to have pool name marker posts to help anglers know where they are fishing. Didn't see or touch a salmon all day but this didn't spoil the experience. Sun was blazing down and made for lovely day outdoors. A large amount of canoes on the water which disrupted things a little but they were courteous and moved through quickly.
I did loose a royal blue morrell foam fly box with double and aluminium tubes in. Lost around the Maddox pool. If anyone finds this I'd be very grateful if they could contact the foundation and arrange its return. Postage and small reward will be paid. Back on Goodrich next month hoping for change of luck and weather.