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3 Trout returned. Enjoyable but struggled with access.

3 Trout

Fantastic day on the river, myself and my fishing buddy both taking our first brown trout ever!
Arrived after early morning rain to find the river quite low with a very slight tinge of colour, it looked perfect as we made our way to the far end of the beat. I caught almost straight away on a gold head nymph with Marc catching a little while later from a deep eddy close to the bank also on a gold head nymph. Marc then took two more from a fast run while I lost a good fish on a dry fly!
Lunch in the Bell was great, highly recommended, then back to the fishing, Marc had to leave so I fished on taking another off the surface on a dry fly and later losing a fish on a nymph when it jumped clear of the water and shed the hook.
All in all a fantastic day, will be back for more.

5 Trout

14 lbs on fly. Also broken by a good fish when a loose stud jammed the brake of quite an expensive fly reel. Will stick to a plain Nottingham in future!
In the low, clear water a pretty good run of smolts seen leaving the river over the past week.

1 Salmon

20 x trout 6-13 inches, 4 x out of season grayling 7-14 inches, North Country spiders, mostly Dark Moorgame and Snipe and Purple. Despite the odd shower, the river is still very low and with a nasty cold downstream wind today. Some small trout were stacked up in the fast runs at the heads of pools, but other parts of the river were very difficult to fish with almost no natural rises. A very few olives around and some iron blues early afternoon.

20 Trout

3.30-4.40, thrashing into a cold downstream wind. Two nice fish both around 12 inches and in typical Arrow form. One much larger -16 inch+ emaciated stocked fish. All on size 14 tungsten nymph from head of pools.

2 Trout, 1 Other

Overnight rain had refreshed river without adding too much volume or colour. Cool and cloudy with sunny intervals. Air temp 9-15C. Water temp 10C. Persistent cool d/str breeze. Fished from 11am - 3pm. A few March Brown around 11.30am and a thin scattering of large olives from noon until 3pm. Caught 9 trout, 7 of which on dry olive. 5 over a pound with heaviest 1lb 4oz.

9 Trout

The river was very low and clear. Few fish rising, I rose only one, about 4oz, on a para Adams. Weather was chilly, partly sunny, with one or two rain squalls - very little rain. I found it a little difficult to know how to get round the "no fishing" bit in the middle of the beat, eventually emerged through a derelict barn into a scrapyard where a very helpful person showed me how to get round on the East bank. The footbridge about 1 1/2 miles up the beat appears to have been washed away.
I found the booking system very effective, and your staff very helpful. Thank you for an enjoyable 2 days on Abbey Dore and here.

Two of us fished Glan-yr-Afon from about 12.45 to 18.00. Great to be back on this stunning stretch of the Usk, despite a very challenging breeze all afternoon and the odd hail shower! Connected with but lost three decent fish, all on dries - as per previous reports, the most effective flies were March Brown and Large Dark Olive. The one fish actually caught fell to the old faithful Partridge and Orange, fished through the tail of a riffle on the near side midway along the beat. Only had thigh waders and therefore couldn't reach some of the water on the far side that looked tempting. Fingers crossed for less wind next time!

1 Trout

Float and bottom fished with worms but no luck, wind was a bit too much.

Managed to bag 4. Water still fishing fine since last visit on Friday last week. Hope it keeps up but the water is dropping very quickly.

4 Trout