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A beautiful, bright afternoon. Fished for a few hours and found four rising fish. Bumped two landed two, 9" and 14". A pruned olive emerger fished in the surface worked for me.

2 Trout

It was one of those perfect days. A crisp frosty morning quickly turned warm and sunny. We only fished from 10:30 until 14:00 on the very bottom part of the beat. Numerous grayling were caught in the last riffles and trout caught in the upper rapids. One salmon parr also caught (a first!). There was a sensational hatch at one point where for 15 minutes the water was alive with mostly grayling taking march browns. Most grayling caught on small green french nymphs and the trout on large stone fly nymphs. We sadly had to leave at 14:00 to catch a flight.

6 Trout, 11 Grayling, 1 Other

No sign of any salmon.

Beautiful sunny day with light wind. Though little sign of fish activity. Lovely looking beat but again access proved extremely difficult and dangerous for much of it.
High bank with very steep incline means there are only a few places to enter the water for wading safely there. So no fishing attempted on the day due to risks.

I was guided by the excellent Oliver Burch. With his help, four trout between 10" and 14" landed, and a few more bumped off. Water getting low after a two week dry spell. Disappointing hatches, despite bright warm sun, possibly due to cold easterly wind. All four fish caught on spiders; few fish rising and those that were, weren't tempted by different flies.

4 Trout

The water level was very low, we fished the Chanel all the way up with a gold head nymph not a fish in sight.

Very low and bright. Granddaughter's first trout on Usk Purple/iron blue.

1 Trout

Difficult conditions. Water level fairly low, bright sunshine and cold wind. Few flies coming off and few rises. Managed 6" fish on Nymph fished deep.

1 Trout

Lovely sunny day and a beautiful beat with some nice pools and riffles, and some tricky wading in places! Tough but enjoyable day's fishing, lots of fly life about but nothing rising, two fish both taken on a small hare's ear and another lost to the same. Looking forward to having another go soon!

2 Trout

A very long stretch of water. Long stretches of flats. Some nice pools at either end. Very very bright day and also low water.

11 Trout