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4 Trout

A gusty downstream wind with calmer conditions from about 3pm at which time the sun made a welcome appearance. Fished weighted nymphs with a touch of red.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

FIRST SALMON ON THE HADAA TODAY 11.40AM 13LB ON A MEPP SHAUN WATKINS

1 Salmon

All started off well trotting maggot and in first ten minutes landed a clonker of about 5 pound. Then the wind picked up and played havoc with my centrepin so decided to switch to feeder. Did not get a nibble for about two hours then found a lovely looking spot. Fish came every cast for an hour or two. Smallest was 2 pound, all the rest between 2-3 pounds, a lovely beat with a good number of chub. I lost 2 or 3 and got smashed by 2 fish which were very heavy.

10 Chub

Very difficult conditions on arrival at this beat. Very strong easterly winds with bright sunlight great!!!
But we did manage to get two wbt approx 2lb which was a surprise. Both on weighted nymphs.

2 Trout

My third time at this venue and it's just as nice in winter as in summer. Plan was to fish for Barbel and Chub while stopping to drop deadbaits into any pikey looking slacks on my way up and down the river but leaving my deadbaits in the freezer stopped that idea. In the end the Barbel eluded me but I had five great condition Chub with the biggest weighing 4lb exactly and another at 3 1/2 pounds. All fish were taken on ocean pride squabs with hemp and pellet in the feeder, with two caught using a centrepin.
I also removed another angler's litter, a squashed hemp tin by the river in the bottom field.

5 Chub

Water still a little high for fly fishing at 2'5" on the Fownhope gauge, although water clarity was fine. Met Mick the gillie who has carried out some great work on the beat during the close season and he offered some very helpful advice. In the morning JC had a good salmon follow his lure right in to the bank in The V. In the early afternoon CJ hooked a good fish in the neck of the Windmill, only for it to throw the single hook flying C at the net. A strong bright silver fish estimated to be mid teens. No fish landed but a promising start to the season on a glorious spring day.

Lovely spring day, clear skies and sunshine with a blustery downstream wind. hatch of LDOs but nothing rose to them. One fish hooked and lost by Kris, but that was the only fish action of the day. Water low and clear and very varied on a long beat. A very beautiful stretch of the usk.

No fish caught but 2 bites on spinner. It's too early for spinner.

Found it hard to find the lower beats, spent most of the morning exploring various housing and industrial estates, when asking for directions I could not associate the welsh names spoken with the map supplied (probably because I'm English) either that or came across a railway line barring me from the river. In the end I drove to the Pontsticill reservoir and found a MAA sign. Fished upstream to the wier but saw no fish.