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A beautiful spring day on the river, March browns and Spinners come off all day unfortunately no salmon showing, just 1no. wbt caught while spinning. Thank you to Mike and Derrick for their helpful advice.

1 Trout

4 trout caught between 2 rods all fish over 3 Lbs

4 Trout

No rises seen and no luck in general!

Very cold windy day but a full bag limit was obtained over 10hrs of fishing.

8 Trout

The river was in beautiful condition with a good level and colour. No sign of any trout all day with very little hatching and nothing at all rising but a steady stream of small oos grayling falling to various nymphs made the day an enjoyable one.
A new fence has been erected to keep the cattle away from the river but a lack of styles does make some swims a little difficult to access. That said this is a lovely beat and a wonderfull place to fish.

5 Grayling

Grabbed a couple of hours and fished the home waters from 11.15 until 2.30 today. Bright sunshine and a keen easterly. Grannom coming off at arrival and understood that they had been doing so since 10.30 (and was also told that yesterday it was 9.30.!) When I fished the beat last Sunday it was a monster (I was eating them!) but brief hatch at 12.30.! The fish were obliging then, and again today with two fish on a Grannom pupa parachute, four on a Grannom adult F fly pattern and two on a March Brown emerger. There was also a brief but significant MB hatch at about midday, which the fish amazingly seemed not to switch on to. Saw much the same happen down the Usk yesterday when the day before they went ballistic and enthusiastically took March Brown Duck's duns for an hour or so. All very curious!

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

9 x trout 10-15 inches, 7 x out of season grayling 12-16 inches, Deer Hair Emerger. The upper Wye seems to be waking up a bit at last. A very chilly start today, bright with an upstream wind, the water very clear and at 1 foot 2 inches on Llanstephan gauge. A few casts on the main lies with the salmon rod without result, then fished until 2.30 with the trout rod. Fish were reacting at times to sparse hatches of the expected three species: some grannom, some large dark olives and a very few March browns. No extensive or general rises while I was there and unfortunately the out of season grayling were very much still in the picture.

9 Trout

First time on this stretch. 5 WBT returned safely. Should've had more but missed loads. March Browns were favourite. Water height 0.31 at Brecon. Seemed a little low. Lovely sunny day; probably too nice for fishing. Windy all day long which made casting tricky at times.
Please tell the owners that there is a stile in need of repair - half way to the bridge, near the fir trees.

5 Trout

Bright sunshine but a cold wind kept any fly life to a minimum. A few Olives coming off but not enough to interest the fish. Fished a small Tungsten bead nymph with a Spider on a dropper, all but One Trout took the nymph.
The fish not quite in full feeding mode yet with some nice looking runs producing nothing and other pools with the sun warming them containing numerous Trout which would shoot off on approach.

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

Method dry, size 16 Adams river running very clear but couldnt spot any fish walked whole length of beat nevertheless this is a very nice stretch of water.Also tried gold head hairs ear nymph through deeper pools had a pull but did not catch. Trout was around 10 inches

1 Trout