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Worm and spinner

3 Trout

6 Trout

The water was a foot above ideal [0.84mtr @ Ross] and the colour of tea which made wading less than ideal and the fly almost invisible. Not to worry, a fat trout found it! A spell with the spinning rod produced nothing either but that didn’t matter as I had just spent 45 minutes filming an otter that was porpoiseing around me in search of small eels, fantastic!
I did take the opportunity to test my theory regarding a #8 rate switch rod from the right bank to bottom of beat and yes it can fish through with either a short back-cast or a roll cast, accessing the run opposite the island too. Ideal for the summer month perhaps?

1 Trout

Sunny and warmer than it has been (~10oC) but with a fresh downstream wind. Water clear and 11in on the gauge. Started at 11:00 and had a 1 1/4lb on the nymphs upstream of the bridge. Moved downstream of the bridge and at 12:30 a hatch of march browns started. Good number of fish rising to them. Had 5 up to 2lb on a parachute. At 13:30 the hatch stopped and all went quiet. Fished nymphs all the way to the end of the beat and had another 4.

10 Trout

4 trout caught, 3 others released. Caught with worm on the bottom. Excellent condition fish. 1 had a large hole in the side which looked like a cormorant or heron had had a go but overall in good condition and healthy.

4 Trout

Did not catch any fish very disappointed I was using worms but the people next to me were using power bait and we're catching a lot. I think someone should be going around checking what bait people are using. This is not the first time this has happened to me. I am not saying this because I didn't catch anything. I am saying it because I have been going fishing up the Usk since I was a kid and now I'm taking my children there and it's not fair as it's spoiling it for everyone

Caught whilst fly fishing for salmon on a Dee Monkey conehead tube. Fish was around 2 and a half pounds.

1 Sea Trout

A cold northerly front made the weather much cooler than in previous days, and there was even fresh snow on the beacons in the morning. Fortunately, there were sporadic hatches of large dark olives and march browns from 12.30 through till 2.30. Some trout came on to the rise but none would accept my artificial dries. I did manage four brown trout up to around a pound on north country spiders fished across/down in the glide below the A40 road bridge and in the riffles of the pool above the bridge. Most of the trout were caught on march brown spiders on the middle dropper, and tied with a stripped quill body, brown partridge hackle and coq de leon tail fibbets.
The combi lock on the last gate worked fine for me.

4 Trout

Spinning in the snow,that's a first for me. Spun for a few hours, nothing caught.

Drove to the Wye through the snow! Fortunately the weather cleared and we had a sunny but cold day (3-9'C). Gauge at 2'9" which is on the high side for this beat, we were told by the owner. Water slightly coloured but not too problematic. We had 2 offers on the fly (sunk lines) and none on a spinner. Thoroughly enjoyed fishing this beat and we shall certainly give it another go!

1 Chub