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Only two fish of a few ounces seen, one 2oz brown trout caught & released.

1 Trout

All fish 4/10inches, most on my favourite March brown spiders size 16, one rising fish to a size 10 mayfly the only riser of the day, but a beauty. Hooked and lost many more! Sporadic hatch mayfly and others. Stream is very tricky, full of debris and very low.

15 Trout

Some good hatches and rising fish but localised spots in the beat. Big mayfly spinner fall late pm. Fish caught on a range of dry patterns including Para Adams, black klinks, olive emergers and mayfly duns.

16 Trout

A few mayflies coming off. Caught on dry mayfly pattern, peacock parachute, klinks, para Adams. Hatches most prolific late pm.

18 Trout

Hen salmon on a spinner from the Wall on Benhall. 5 salmon from this catch so far this year.

1 Salmon

With the water lower than hoped (just over 1ft) Salmon fishing difficult, fished through regardless, nothing to report.
In the afternoon got out the trout rod out and took 8 trout up to a pound on dries, mainly Sedge emerging patterns but some joy on Mayflies too.

8 Trout

Nil catch.

River in good condition. Not the warmest of days and only a few flies coming off around lunchtime. Fished the French leader for the first few hrs and it produced 5 lovely trout the biggest being 17". Then the fish started to rise in the junction pool so I swapped to dry fly and took 2 small trout and missed about 4 others. The rise finished as quick as it started, so I prospected with the klink n dink for the last hr that produced a beautiful fish to 21". Good day all round.

9 Trout

Fished hard all morning without a glimpse of a fish, water atill merky after yesterday's rain. As the sun got stronger I was rather distracted by the Mayfly hatch which produced a series of good fish, the best of which was about 1lb 4oz. At 4.30 a fresh fish estimated at 15lb showed at the bottom of the Rectory pool, and then several others showed over the next hour, had one adrenalin rush when a trout took me as the fly swung over a position where an 8lb fresh fish had shown seconds before.

7 Trout

Fantastic beat with lots of different features, good riffles and long dry flats. Tough going in the morning but good show of risers late into the evening around 7pm. Had several takes on various dry flys but fish were very suspicious and spat out the fly as soon as mouthed resulting in no takes. Great day out on the Usk.