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8 x trout 10-17 inches, various spiders. This new beat took a bit of finding. On the instructions: I made it 2 miles less on the A4042 from the Abergavenny roundabout to the left turn on the outskirts of Llanover than the 5.4 miles given – oh, I see, the miles and kilometres are transposed in the directions – plus the brown signs to various churches are currently hidden by vines. Anyway, what you do is drive through Llanover in the direction of Newport and turn left on the outskirts just before the national speed limits sign, after which the directions are good. Once parked on the field, I think this place is a delight. The wading and access is as about as easy as could possibly be, to some very wide open pools – it looks more like parts of the middle Wye than the Usk. Dark clouded skies and an increasingly cold wind, as so often during this past April, seemed to put paid to finding any rising fish although a few olives were trapped in foamy patches and the birds were certainly helping themselves. Nothing was done with the dry fly rod on this occasion but a team of spiders produced a few trout from the fast water, including a couple of good ones. On the right day with rising trout, I suspect you might be busy for hours on just one or two pool tails. I never got round to putting the salmon rod together, although there are some interesting looking pools. Given the amount of fishing available, the price is reasonable and it would be nice if we had this one all week!

8 Trout

Little fly activity and a very cold wind made fishing difficult today, but a good time was had nevertheless. Lovely to see a few kites overhead.

2 Grayling

Low water meant that we abandoned fishing for salmon and fished for trout. We raised a couple of good fish, but none were brought to the net.

12 trout caught averaging a pound with the best weighing 1.75lb. Should have caught more.
Conditions were pretty good with the river at a nice height. There were sporadic hatches of olives and march browns all day with the fish enthusiastically responding resulting in at times tremendously frantic sport. Most fish caught on dries and emergers. Will definitely return to this beat.

12 Trout

10am start due to the cold morning. River low and clear, which made the fish very easily spooked even in my stealth mode. 7 fish all approx between 13" and 14". 3 before any hatch on upstream nymphs, 3 on the duo and 1 solitary fish on a dry fly with plenty more spooked or missed/lost on cdc dun pattern. Good hatch of ldos and Brook duns from about 1ish till about 3. Plenty of fish rising in some really hard to reach locations. Good day. Now for a rain dance.

7 Trout

3 Trout

3 Trout

Worm fished on bottom, cold windy day.

3 Trout

Really struggled with fishing as there were loads of Kayaks out today.

Lots of kayaks disturbing the fishing....only saw 1 salmon late evening when the kayaks had finished,
Very frustrating.