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1 x Brown Trout 3½lb.

3 x trout on Waterhen Bloa during a rather sporadic large dark olive hatch after lunch and with a chill east wind blowing: 10 inches, 15 inches and a very handsome wild cock fish of 18 inches. The last-mentioned, at the end, managed to jump through the loop of line I had left trailing below the reel in the current - chaos for a while until the net was brought into play. That will teach me to play fish off the reel!

Fished 11.00- 3.00

1 Trout 22ins. returned of course; must be all of 3lb caught in first 10 min upstream on flashback nymph. No sign of any fish after then so left early. River very low clear and colder day than forecast @ 4C air. Left happy.

Blank. Little fly-life, one fish seen, no feeding activity. Disappointing.

2 Barbel to 8lb for one rod, one of the other rods had 14.

Nothing caught, but we did see a (or possibly more than one) salmon jumping at various points throughout the day. Looked like a good sized if thin fish, probably a kelt rather than springer, I guess. A bit east-windy and bright for a good fishing day, but a lovely place to be anyway.

Only there for a short while but had two heavy knocks on my small 7 foot brook rod. (I wouldn't fish much bigger than that). Cwmbran Angling were great and are open from 7am on a Sunday to get the day ticket. Great few hours.

No fish caught. Great booking website though. Very nice river too!

A great day to be on the Usk. There was unbroken sunshine all day, and temperatures above 10 degrees. The Large Dark Olive hatch started around 10am and continued until 3pm, becoming fairly prolific at mid-day. There was also an occasional March Brown coming off. The trout rose freely for around an hour but it was all over by 2pm. Three trout caught; two over 2 lb (both 17") and one at around a 1 lb. The two larger fish were taken (stomachs were full of LDOs). Caught on baetis nymph and dries. I left just after 4.30pm, but didn't see any evening rise. I couldn't have wanted for a better first outing of the season. Thanks WUF!

Lovely day to be out on the river albeit the level was quite low. Spent all day with the double hander but no sign of any salmon, just a very small brownie which put a creditable bend in the fifteen footer for such a small fish.
A few hatches during the day but no trout rising so didn't bother setting up the trout rod.