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I chose one of the more wetter days of the week with clouds and mist hanging over the small valley where the Upper Grywne Fawr runs through. Nice little beat with plenty of small pools and fast streams where I mostly tried the nymph and a small green gold head streamer but no luck between 11am and 1pm. The weather didn't improved much so I didn't bother going back for the evening. The trees are really hanging over the water so a '7' or '8' should handle this better then my 10#5 Hardy rod. Beginners in this part of the UK like me are better of fishing in the Usk or Wye or one of the middle Wales rivers. Will have another try in July and read some of the feedback forms from the other enthusiasts where the fish are more easy to trick.

River low and clear but had nice wbt.

1 Trout

Four brown trout caught (2: 8"; 1: 7"; 1: 6"), two on a PTN and two on dry flies (Parachute Adams and a Soft-Hackle Dry Fly), using the duo method for some of these. The fishing was slow up to 11am, then more active up till around 3pm. Not many fish seen rising, but around the middle of the day fish could be drawn to the surface with a dry fly.

4 Trout

Loads of takes and 3 beautiful wbt, biggest around 1lb. All fish caught on the dry - elk hair caddis and iron blue dun pattern.
Lots of fish around - casting can be quite tricky and the river very narrow at points. 6.5-7.5ft rod is easily enough

3 Trout

A beautiful stretch of river, I caught 8 trout to 12", 1 on a dry sedge the others on a small bead head hares ear nymph, missed a few takes to the dry sedge. The wading can be a bit tricky so was pleased I had my wading stick.

8 Trout

Very pleasant day, wind not too much of a problem. Despite a good hatch no trout were rising, I decided to go with surface flies as I could not believe the fish would ignore plentiful food all day. At about 1.00 the trout did look upwards, not many rises but they were looking at my grey baetis para. Eventually landed 5 (5" to 11"), lost 3, missed several and also many looked but turned away in the v. clear water. In the streamy runs and heads of pools.

5 Trout

Weather warmer and plenty of fly life. Apart from 3 rises to my klinkhammer which I missed, nothing else seen. A beautiful beat and fortunately for me there's more to fishing than catching fish.

Arrived to find the river (brook?) very low with bright sunshine and a freezing cold northerly wind, walked/waded the entire beat but failed to see a trout and there was no hatch or insect life to tempt them out of their bolt holes either.
A wonderful, gin clear little river which is probably great on the right day, but today wasn't the right day.

One 9" and one 10"wbt on gold head grhe. Stunning beat on a beautiful Autumn day.

2 Trout