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A 12lber from Bredwardine, caught on the fly.

1 Salmon

An early session. Very cold early on, river steamimg for an hour or so after the sun got up. Started with a sinktip and larger fly, changed later on to a full floater and smaller fly. None of this made any difference. A beautiful morning however and no canoes before 11.40, some sort of record.

1 x cock salmon 32 inches on Black and Yellow tube. A nice fresh, silver fish, rather marred by partly healed gash on the shoulder. Sunny and quite warm, with some downstream wind to trouble the casting at times, but nothing like the very strong cold wind which has made trout fishing on the Usk somewhat difficult this week. Also a huge hatch of grannom sedge, bigger than I have seen this year - need to keep mouth shut!

1 Salmon

A lovely day; the river at just 1 foot with fish rising to march browns and occasional grammons. Fishing a wet march brown I connected and landed a superb 17" brownie; a few casts later within just a yard or two of the first I had another of similar proportions on the same fly, unfortunately this one threw the hook just short of the net. Both fish took 30 yards of line before coming under control. My last fish of the day was 12 inches and also in beautiful condition; all quite an experience and testament to the quality of fantastic brown trout to be found in the Wye!

4 Trout

Don Macer-Wright was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable with an infectious enthusiasm that made it a great day - no fish but that was probably more down to me than the beat!

All fish caught on the surface below the island. Broken by 3 fish using 4lb leader. Uprated leader and landed trout to one pound on Adams dry. Hatches were sporadic but as soon as fly life appeared the surface began to boil. First time on this stretch but certainly not our last. A note of caution - wading for the most part is positively dangerous!

WUF note - There is a lot of algae covering some of the bedrock sections of the upper river at present so studded soles are advised but on the whole this beat is generally good wading.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 small rainbow trout caught, all released back.

4 Trout

Nothing caught. Definitely chest waders would have been better than the thigh waders that I had on and that are shown in the Passport book.

1 sea trout around 1.5lbs caught. No salmon although a few were showing around Martins Bar and Pool.

1 Other

Fish approximately 14" and 16" respectively, both returned. River perfect. Very windy.

2 Trout