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Only had 2 hours around midday, so only fished middle half. River very low, but regular rises when the wind died. 1xWBT approx 1 lb on gold beaded PTN. Managed to shake off another that took a parachute adams. Lovely beat - look forward to tackling it when it has more water.

12 x WBT from 9in to 14in (plus two lost), all on olive Klinkhammer. Fished from 13:00 to 18:00; not a hectic rise but constant through the afternoon. Good day.

7 trout and 2 grayling caught and returned, most on dry fly. River was low, weather was fair but with a cool easterly breeze.

6 fish, best about 20oz (all BT). All returned. Water v low and fish were shy all day but there was a rise to a good hatch of olives. All fish caught on dry olive imitations, fishing 6x cast and longish leader. Sunny in the morning then wind changed to west/north west making for an extra challenge off the left bank. Beautiful piece of water with plenty of variety. Excellent day with plenty of fish missed.

Second day on Glan-yr-Afon. Still tough fishing due to the low water and bright sunshine. However, managed 12 fish in total, most on nymphs fished down through the faster runs and pocket water. Three of the fish were 12", two were 10" and the rest were 8" or less. Really lovely bit of water. Can imagine that it is fantastic if you catch it on the right day.

2 rods, 1 brown trout approx. 1½ lbs, returned, barbless hook on a Diawl Bach. Very windy on day 2 making it a hard but still enjoyable day.

6 x Trout. Smallest 6", largest 10"

15 x trout 10-15 inches, mostly on a Parachute Adams. There are a couple of advantages to this very low water. Firstly you can explore the river bed in detail to the advantage of later fishing in more normal flows. And secondly you can wade through places you would never get through normally and fish them. In fact it turned out to be a very nice dry fly day. And, guess what - the mayfly is up! A few began to hatch off about 4 pm and after a bit a couple of trout began to react with those lovely "ker-splosh" rises. I have another report of mayfly from the middle Usk. 3rd May is very early, but everything seems to be early this spring after the heat-wave weather.

Down beat 06.30am after night shift for breath of fresh air. Cold sunny morning with mist rising off the Wye, stunning ambience! Not optomistic as river extremely low. 1 salmon kelt possibly just into double figures unhooked in the water and swam off at reasonable pace.
Caught in fast oxygenated flow just 10mtrs below the island where there is a deeper hole (the barbel hole) on pink and copper bladed flying C fished deep and slow, held back against current. Are there any more late kelt holed up in pools as these waiting for a flush to take them to the sea as we seem to be seeing many salmon in this area of the river lately.
Early twait shad shoal seen above island on Friday that seems to have moved on up river. Large 20lb plus spawn laden pike and attending jacks and also barbel spawning in shallows easily seen due to the low water. Exceptionally large hatches of Mayfly and similar of late.

6 trout up to 11.5 in