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Redbrook 8lb Salmon for Simon MacLucas from The Joe Surley Welsh-side on an Usk grub.

1 Salmon

What a lovely still calm day. 10 degrees water and 14 degrees air. So where were the PWs and LDOs? Well, very few and even fewer rising fish. Bugged for much of the day with fish taken on pink shrimp and FBPTN. Also cast to the odd rise with a Grayling Steel Blue which raised more fish than took risers. What a great search pattern the GSB is in the foam at this time of year for ladies reluctant to get off their butts! Grayling from 10-15" and OOS trout around 12 inches by both methods. No fishing now for a while, then it will surely be time for worm swimming lessons!

2 Trout, 8 Grayling

Beautiful morning and headed for Caradoc on the basis that there were fish throughout the river and I needed to find one who wasn't used to seeing heavy fly traffic. Began fishing below the suspension bridge with a No12 Usk Grub (fly du jour it seems) and had a very gently pull just below the young Oak tree, resulting in a 12lb Hen fish- my first of the season, and safely returned. Fished on with blustery conditions getting worse and stepped down to a small Size 14 Red Francis, but this was too much for the local brownies to resist, so went back to a larger Temple Dog for the rest of the day. Stunning sequence of fly water, although lots of dogs / horses / walkers / swimmers treating it as a beach didn't help as the day went on....Big smile and happy to forgive anyone on two or four paws today though!

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

Three rods fished the bottom area of the beat by the metal steps. Had a slightly later start than really ideal, though a quick chat with the other two rods booked on in the wood revealed that no early success had been enjoyed. One rod in our group managed an eel on feeder fished maggots and another tempted a succession of bleak and minnows whilst trotting, but anything more substantial was conspicuous by it's absence. Then the canoes came, loads of em.... so we ended up leaving around lunchtime to head back to Oxfordshire. We all realised that there could have been a better chance of a fish or two at dusk, but we didn't have the staying power. Never mind, there's always next time.

10 Other

Conditions seemed ok, but we didn't see or feel a fish. An excellent beat, with some pools that make casting quite easy for my 12 year old son.

River in good clear condition. BJ caught 4 brown on grhe, JJ caught 2 on f fly and grhe. Will fish lower next. Wading good on upper.

6 Trout

River was too fast and dangerous to fish.

River at a good level and weather good. After the long walk to the end of the fishery, had a very good day. Though the last swim very snaggy.
Caught fish throughout the day. Usual method of feeder tactics and pellet. Fish caught, 25 Chub up to 4.5lb and 20 Barbel up to 9.00lb. Very good day and thanks to the WUF

20 Barbel, 25 Chub

Very low water levels with limited number of pools holding fish. 7 fish caught, 6 trout and I think a roach. Probably lost another 7. All caught on a weighted nymph suspended below a balloon caddis.

7 Trout

Refugees from an unfishable Ty-Newydd. We worked our way along the west bank for a couple of hours after arriving - not an easy task. Little evidence of fish but plenty of rain, quite heavy at times. After a late lunch watching exhausted soldiers "yomping" down the track to the car park we resumed fishing in the west corner of the dam where the occasional fish was showing. We each landed a dark bronze 12" trout and had other near misses fishing a variety of traditional wets.

2 Trout