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15 x trout 9-15 inches, Waterhen Bloa, Dark Moorgame, Woodcock and Hare's Ear. Bright and sunny, but wind still cold at times. River high but clear and just about back into fishing condition. Hatches sparse - large dark olive, march brown, stone fly. All on spiders today; nothing much to be done with the dry fly it seemed.

15 Trout

Fished the Usk at Gilwern today from about 10.30 until 2.00 p.m. Sunny, with a frequently brisk , cool south- easterly wind and the river losing colour, but still pushing through with 1’ 2” on the Brecon guage and 1.4m at Llanfoist. Saw no fly until 11.30 when a 30 minutes hatch of Grannom appeared, but with no fish as yet showing interest; there were one or two Grannom even a week or so ago. Quite early this year. Bring it on!

Few LDOs put in an appearance but, from about 1 -2 p.m., March Browns got fish up and at ‘em. Most appeared to be taking surface nymphs / emergers but some were seen taking duns. Prior to this, I had one fish on a flashback PTN but then, during the hatch, I had nine fish of 10-13” off the top, all bar one on my MB parachute emerger and one on my MB Duck’s Dun. Nothing big but they loved the emerger, just as they did at this time last year. A rewarding few hours on a lovely day.

10 Trout

Bright day warming up after a cool spell. March brown hatch below the road bridge. Olives/LDOs in smaller numbers, fish not switched on to them. Best fish 14"

16 Trout

4 Trout

Lovely day up the usk!

3 Trout

River dropping after wash-off the day before, very clear. Cold downstream wind, bright sun all day. Very small hatch of upwings at 1pm, caught and returned 2 trout on dries from bottom pool, then later on 1 on a nymph under a dry in faster run.

3 Trout

River falling slowly after flood the day before, cold wind, sunny in afternoon. Caught and returned two on dries during very short hatch at around 2pm, one on a nymph deep earlier in day.

3 Trout

Weather would be best described as austere, with a cold east wind. Thankfully the river had fined down from the previous day's torrent. A few march browns and LDOs hatching in the quieter water, cheered the soul and reminded me that spring is on its way, after all. Twelve brown trout to 15" all safely returned: most, but not all, on nymph.

12 Trout

Saw one fish rise all day, caught on nymphs. A few LDO lifting, no rise though

2 Trout

Caught the last hour or so of light. Good flow and a bit of colour. 8x wbt all on GRHE

8 Trout