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I have had a disappointing day, river very low and clear. No fish caught, no sign of fish on the whole of the beat.

The Dore was at a good height with a typical tinge of colour, 50% cloud cover and relatively warm weather. Early rises to emerging buzzers followed by lull and then LDO from about 11.30 building to a good hatch by 12.30. A few fish rising to them, in the shallower pools, below sunny riffles. One 11" trout and a few misses on a #14 cdc olive emerger.

No fish caught

A perfect spring day. Birds on the wing, lambs in the fields and flies hatching off from around 10 until 14.00. The fishs' attention had been caught by the insects and were rising from time to time, if not consistently. I caught three fish, two of 6 to 8 oz and a third thumping great big beast of around 3lb. Too large to fit my 21" net. The fish all took a dry fly. An excellent beat, quiet lots of variation and good radio reception for listening in to England once again just scraping through a cricket match! A great day.

Nil

Cold, dull day but sporadic hatches of large dark olive after 1pm, and a few march browns mid-afternoon. One grayling on GRHR gold head, and 3 grayling and 2 trout (to 1.5lb) on Kites Imperial and Klinkhammer.

First Class Coppicing job, very impressive! Easy enough to find, bit of an issue with the access to the upper section,[loose dogs] not confident with this, so left it alone! The lower half looks good, but no fish seen or caught. The Lugg, below beat looks fantastic.

5 trout to ~ 1 lb. 2 out of season grayling to ~ half lb.
All safely returned. Taken in the riffle above the fishing hut, and the shallow end of bridge pool (as the beat notes suggested they might be!) Tungsten-head GRHE, holy grail and (around lunchtime) olive klinkhammer. Great to be back at Gromain - a majestic beat. Many thanks.

Overcast day but quite a lot of activity for an hour about 2pm when there was a good rise to March browns with some decent fish showing. Caught 2 brown trout around 12 oz on a G&H sedge fished on the top and a third trout of about 1LB on a czech nymph later in the afternoon. All were in good condition and fighting fit. This is a nice water for dry fly and easy wading compared to some of the Wye beats. It would be useful to know where the river is likely to be fordable-as always the bigest fish were under the opposite bank and its a long cast across tricky currents on this water!

2 small grayling and 2 trout, all returned. First trout about half a pound in pretty good condition, second trout about 1.5 lbs still in need of fattening up! Would have been 2 lbs+ in "summer" condition. All on nymphs. Very enjoyable day on excellent fly water under the tuition of Frank Williams.