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8lbs and 12lbs. Both sea liced and taken on black F.C. Smolts still going down.

2 Salmon

What a lovely morning fishing. Beautiful place, lots of deep pools to fish, one of which produced a lovely brownie of about a pound and a half! A few other takes and chases. Thanks very much will be back soon!

1 Trout

Difficult in the morning, strong wind from the East, however, stuck at it and landed 3 Rainbows on spinner, up to 2lbs.

3 Trout

A cold start (8 degrees at 10am) and a strong breeze meant a slow and tricky beginning with just one WBT in the morning, on a gold head PTN fished below a Klinkhammer. Things livened up in the afternoon with 3 good fish on the dry (Para Adams) following a big hatch of Large Brook Duns at 2.30 ish making things very lively for half an hour. All in all despite the chilliness, low water (rain please!) and the breeze an excellent day.

4 Trout

Cold easterly wind, but at least upstream. Two small trout lost to a subsurface GRHE pattern around midday (moral, always check after snagging that your hook hasn't straightened!). Subsequently different patterns, different depths, but nothing, and no rising fish.

The river was quite low and the weather was cloudy with occasional sun and slightly colder than it has been. Arrived around lunch time and almost immediately hooked a small fish on a weighted nymph which I lost at the net. There were small sporadic hatches and some surface activity. Managed to catch one trout on a dry which was very rewarding. A better angler than we would, I suspect have caught much more. The final massive tangle of the day prompted my exit at around 6pm. Great value. (I've recorded 2 trout but that latter one looked suspiciously silvery with very few spots. a quick Google back at home suggested a smolt?)

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

No fish this evening but there were a few rises. All the access points below the bridge are still fine. I did find that someone had blocked the path down to the river inside the bottom access point with trimmings. I cleared this away so there is now access to the river.

River in great condition. It was overcast but wind a bit cold. Fished from 11:30 - 17:30 and fairly steady hatch of olives coming off all day. Saw an odd larger fly and one yellow dun before leaving. A parachute Adams was a good imitation for most of the beasties hatching but takes were quick and I missed more than connected. The largest trout was around 1 lb but the stamp was more around 6 - 8 oz mark. Also one or two parr but generally those fell off. Grayling came to pt nymphs fished underneath the dry. The largest was good size around 12 - 14 oz. Overall fish seemed in pockets so you need to work though the whole beat to find fish. Once you found fish there were more in those pools however each time one was caught you seemed to have to move on. Plenty of exercise so I was tired (in a good way) at the end of the day.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

4 Trout

Stayed for 2 nights at the Bell at Skenfrith on one of their DB&B deals. Excellent.
Clear water but with very few fish showing on the surface. That said, all but one of my fish were caught by casting to rising fish. 4 on a CDC F fly on top and the other 2 (including the Grayling) on a green gold head nymph.
2 of the trout were 1lb plus, the remainder were about 4-6 ounces. Very enjoyable day.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling