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The river was very low, and flow was slow in the pools. Weather conditions were bright and sunny, although the temperature was lower than the previous couple of days. No fish were observed moving, despite mayfly hatching.
There was also a considerable amount of silt on the rocks and stones on the riverbed, indicating run-off upstream has been carrying a significant amount of soil into the river.

Only spent a few hours on the search for one of the big Browns which are certainly on this beat. Managed to find two good fish but luck not on my side today, as both rose to my Elk Hair Caddis and felt the hook, on for on more than a second, and disappeared after than. Can't win them all I suppose. Better luck next time. Did manage 1 good sized Grayling about 16 inches.

1 Grayling

Beautiful day - sunny and 14C with (unusually) no wind.
The bottom of the beat is mostly shallow water and I've never seen much moving there. Further up, there are deeper pools and these are well worth the effort. Easy wading.
Three pretty brown trout (2 x 7" and 1 x 5") brought to hand and released and three times as many takes missed. Hooked what felt like a substantially bigger fish but it broke my 6X tippet on its first run. All fish came to a Para Adams.

3 Trout

I caught two brown trout which I returned safely. They where caught using a dry fly and a floating line.
I would like to bring to your attention there was an issue with litter at the lake.

2 Trout

Very limited fly water, hot and bright day no salmon seen all day.

3 Trout, 1 Chub

Steve Grimwood, Llysdinam -10lb to a #8 silver doctor.

1 Salmon

Two today, 8 and 9lbs cocks, both on fly - Bann Shrimp. Smaller fish starting to colour up, other bright.

2 Salmon, 2 Trout

Fresh Hen about 7or8lbs. No sea lice. Had a healed bite mark just behind its anal fin on one side only. Thank God seals have bad dental hygiene! It came out of the Bridge Stream on an old Usk Grub.

1 Salmon

If I'm going to blank (which I did), there's no prettier stretch of river to do it on that this! Will be back.

Managed to find a few sheltered areas out of the wind including an expedition into the jungle at the top of the beat. Tight up there for casting but floated a large pheasant tail nymph down a glide to pickup a chubby and hard fighting 10 inch WBT. Picked up 3 others and a grayling on a mixture of nymph and mayfly.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling