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One lb Brown trout caught on green and black snatcher type fly on floating line just before first bend up from the bridge. No surface activity at present. Caught alot of Parr also. Care should be taken if wading just past first bend up from the bridge, very deep mud -easy to get stuck in...suggest walking on left hand bank for a while to avoid the mud!

Two lovely wildies 16" and 17" returned. Olive klink and GRHE nymph. Lots of grannom through middle of the day plus LDOs and Turkey Browns, despite dull weather.

We fished from around 10am through until 4pm. Small rise to LDOs around 12pm - 12.20pm. River low and cool which did not help the fishing. Nonetheless, we still caught a magnificent 2lb brown on a size 16 PTN fished behind a CDC Olive.

Lots of wildlife seen.

6 out of season grayling including one I estimate to be 2.5lb plus and an 8 inch trout. The wife managed 3 grayling. I thought I was in for a good day when I got the big graying after about 5 minutes of fishing but all in all it was slow day. Not a lot happening on the surface with just the odd fish showing. Had a small hatch of B-W-O's but no fish interested. Had all fish on gold heads although I did several attempts at my grey Klinkhammer.

River in fine condition and managed to fish pools I couldn't get too when I was down last July! I'll be back...

............, Lord Lieutenant of Powys and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne, and owner of Glanusk, personally directed me to the beat when she spotted me wandering aimlessly. Two fantastic pools feed by some fast water, fishing constantly rising. The bedrock ledges allow you to get quite far out into the pools. Wouldn?t want to wade those pools in coloured water !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Caught 3 in each pool on grannums, hand tied by Jean from Sweets of Usk. Stuart the ghillie stopped for chat as well, very nice man with some useful tips.

Switched to the fast water below the bridge after lunch caught one on a beaded hairs ear, the next three hours were spent untangling birdnests every 15 minutes. Didn?t get down the bottom beat.

Only downside was I had to build a ramp out of stones to get my car up on to the bridge over the brook on the way out. The drop from the end of the bridge ramp is about 10 inches, ok if you have big 4X4, not easy in and Audi A3.

Fantastic stretch of water, will return definitely.

Fished between 13:30 and 17:30 and took one 10" grayling with a (home tied!) pheasant-tail nymph right at the top of the beat. Water low but enough flow to keep algae at bay. Fairly constant trickle hatch of what looked like pale watery dun. Lots of unidentified black flies as well; would like advice as to what these are if possible! Some small trout were rising to these. Weather was beautiful and the setting absolutely sublime. One gripe; access to some of best looking pools and runs was impossible due to growth of vegetation on the bank; bushes and nettles etc. Fishing is therefore only possible by wading up the stream for long stretches and branches overhead make casting very hard indeed. If the beat is to be fished regularly, some of these need to be removed. A small complaint considering the great afternoon I had. This stream looks healthy with good insect fauna and birdlife (couple of dippers seen).

Only got on water at 11am due to work, just as grannom hatch finished. Only occasional fish moving with the air filled with egg laying adults. Worked hard for a pounder on the klinkhammer. At noon the start of the olives was indicated by a few small rises appearing along the far bank where main current swept along it. Thought at first they were dace as they were little splashes rather than dimples. Could not interest them and then realised leader was down to 11ft. Stretched it back up to 18ft and restarted. Over next 45mins picked off all 6 rising fish to an emerging olive pattern, all took with tiny apologetic rises before rod buckled over! Smallest was 1lb 4oz, rest were over 1lb 12oz with the best pulling the weighnet down well past 2lb. Kept one for supper and it must have 1,000+ grannom pupae in it's stomach. It was at the point of bursting!

I haven't fished the Wye before but understand the water was low for the time of year, I spent most of the day on the upper pools of the beat fishing the fly for salmon but there was no sign of any fish. There was however an incredible hatch of fly off the river and plenty of canoeist!

I thought the information sent through by the Wye & Usk foundation was very useful, informative and well put together and I would like to thank Seth Johnson-Marshall for his help and advice in booking the fishing - if you can just organise a fish for me next time I would be most grateful!

Just to say that I had a nice day on the river on Saturday 11 April. I caught 2 trout one a baby and one of about 12 inches. Big hatch of Grannom or some other popular Wye fly but I did not see many fish moving at all - caught both on nymphs. Red letter event, caught a fish on a fly that I tied myself - a world first. PTN if you must know, the other fell to a commercial hares ear.

Spent most of the day giving a novice friend the dubious benefit of my vast experience. Despite this he managed to catch two Penpont Porkers at around the 2LB mark. The first was caught at the bottom of the beat adjacent to the campsite, despite kids throwing stones in the water, the second caught at the end of the day in the fast water below the bridge. No surface activity.

In my experience at Penpont it?s a case of quality not quantity.