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8lbs Cadora Backs. 10lbs off Redbrook. Slight colour in water from local heavy rain. WUF rod lost two yesterday on C.B.

2 Salmon

One lost salmon about 9am on a spinner. Difficult day, raining and sun.

1 Pike

This river is fishing very well. 4 beautifully conditioned brownies on a mayfly fished upstream and one brownie on a small black nymph fished across and down. Many many more times that number of fish missed due to lighting speed of takes and dullness of my reaction! Day unfortunately prematurely ended at around 3pm by a broken rod - something I will never take for granted again.

5 Trout

3 Trout

Very poor session, not a fish caught and not a sighting of any fish even though I moved around the reservoir.

Good days fishing, weather ruined the mornings fishing but few fish rising late in the evening. 1 wild brown caught on small klinkhammer, few others hooked but not landed. Nice beat but access little tricky in spots with high banks.

1 Trout

I was looking forward to a good days sport at Skenfrith, however a one hour downpour coloured the river and made life difficult. There were some olives hatching and some mayflies, but the fish didn't seem particularly interested, with just the odd rise, generally tucked against the bank. I managed to persuade two to take my yellow mayfly, one an absolutely beautiful 15" fish, the other and equally attractive 11". Hard work but a good day eventually. I think this is a very nice beat and with favourable water will be great to fish. My sympathy to the other angler who was on the beat and broke his rod! At least he caught some too!

2 Trout

1 brown trout on worm. Weight 11ozs. No other fish caught.

Fished from 3:30 - 8:45. Steady hatches of all shapes/sizes of fly including different mayflies. However not a lot rising, for most of the session. Difficult swirling winds didn't help presentation. Tried nymphs to start but no joy. Located a few small fish around 6pm and landed one (12oz) but missed a few takes. Over the rest of evening worked through beat and missed a couple of takes on a hackled mini m. Brown. Tried several other patterns but that seemed to work best. Around 8:30 downstream of the bridge came alive and I hooked a much better fish which shed the hook after a few seconds. Unfortunately had to leave then as I had to be somewhere else. This was unfortunate as the river was starting to come alive and I am sure that would have been the killing time.

1 Trout

4lb Chub on an Ally Shrimp in Dog Hole. Some early morning salmon rises in the Vanstone and one good take on a black shrimp double (12). River went dead after heavy rain and wash off from the fields quickly coloured the water.
Mick was very useful in helping me with understanding the beat on my first time here.

1 Chub