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River was high which made wading quite difficult for 3 old guys, so we could not cover all the water. Caught one small wild brownie. Beautiful peaceful beat and we thoroughly enjoyed our day. Thank you again to Alyson and the Wye and Usk Foundation.

1 Trout

Few small WBT all returned. Planned night fishing cancelled due to an injury.

When I arrived the water was very coloured due to the overnight rain, however undeterred I made my way to the bottom of the beat at 10:00am. Found a very narrow but clear stretch and second cast was into my first fish on a dark nymph. Worked my way up the beat. About halfway and about 12:30 I found a calm stretch of water with fish rising to sedges and Mayfly. Put on a dry sedge and caught a further 5 fish. Moved to the top of the beat and continued with the dry fly and landed a further 4. All in all a challenging but enjoyable day, it was spoilt by two gentleman feeding the river with maggots at the top of the beat!! This was subsequently reported. The stretch could do with some clearance though as there is lots of debris in the river

10 Trout

The stream was high, coloured and flowing fast. None caught.

4 x trout 9-15 inches. An early evening session, short-lining a team of three wet flies on the windward shore. The odd lake olive to be seen on the surface. A greased up Kate Maclaren on the top dropper provoked most interest with a wet Greenwells and Harry Tom fished lower down. I had planned to fish till dusk, but unfortunately the wind dropped to a flat calm around 7.30, the fish moved out of range - and the biting midges moved in. Two WUF anglers, fellow refugees from flooded rivers, arrived later and hopefully found some success before dark.

4 Trout

High fast water made a lot of the water hard to get to and fish properly. Only fished for a few hrs and had two small trout on heavy nymphs.

2 Trout

Trout: 1 @ 8" & 1 @ 6". River was high and slightly coloured.

2 Trout

3 Trout

Cloudy water still but clearer sky warmer day than yesterday. Still 5x Brown Trout from half pound to a pound.

5 Trout

1 brownie caught on bubble and worm, about a pound in weight, returned. Lost a rainbow at the bank whilst spinning, too slow with net! Weather good.
Looked like 4 cormorants out in middle, constantly diving for fish. I think they were cormorants, head and necks looked like periscopes in the water, diving under for about 20 secs then surfacing a fair way from where they dived.

1 Trout