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A beautiful spring day on the river, March browns and Spinners come off all day unfortunately no salmon showing, just 1no. wbt caught while spinning. Thank you to Mike and Derrick for their helpful advice.

1 Trout

Grabbed a couple of hours and fished the home waters from 11.15 until 2.30 today. Bright sunshine and a keen easterly. Grannom coming off at arrival and understood that they had been doing so since 10.30 (and was also told that yesterday it was 9.30.!) When I fished the beat last Sunday it was a monster (I was eating them!) but brief hatch at 12.30.! The fish were obliging then, and again today with two fish on a Grannom pupa parachute, four on a Grannom adult F fly pattern and two on a March Brown emerger. There was also a brief but significant MB hatch at about midday, which the fish amazingly seemed not to switch on to. Saw much the same happen down the Usk yesterday when the day before they went ballistic and enthusiastically took March Brown Duck's duns for an hour or so. All very curious!

6 Trout, 2 Grayling

3 Trout

8-10lb fresh springer on a flying c. Lost at the edge of the net.

River dropping and not to much colour.Fishing for salmon in monks run with a Stoats tail double. Caught a hard fighting Sea trout 18".

1 Sea Trout

Fished with a fly for salmon for approximately 4 hours with no success at all. Tried a variety of fly patterns - nothing helped. River was very low - some pools almost impossible to fish with a fly as a result due to insufficient flow to make the fly swim.
Beat bailiff was very helpful in terms of fly advice and telling me where to fish, but no fish even seen, let alone caught. Coarse anglers did report one salmon jumping mid-afternoon.

Fishing for salmon using lures (flies). Couple of trout and a 6lb barbel accidentally caught and released in good condition. No salmon despite many different flies and methods. No salmon seen.

2 Trout, 1 Sea Trout, 1 Barbel

First visit to the fishery. A splendid beat with secure parking. Overnight rain resulted in high, fast, coloured water making fly fishing pointless. As I had driven a long way, I made the best of a bad job by merely practice-casting before returning home.

No Salmon caught despite an excellent days fishing with both fly and lures. River conditions low and very clear so not ideal, however there were four 10 to 12lb fish in one pool that moved on as soon as I presented a lure.

Very bright and very warm; and the river approaching gin-like levels of clarity. But the crucial limiting factor if I'm honest was my casting. No amount of practice and looking stylish in the park (enduring comments such as 'caught anything mate' - I invested hours in it!) evidently enough to manage a sinker line on the actual water. I switched to an intermediate but the water is still cold and there was a fair pace to the flow. Not surprising then that nothing came up to have a look. I'll stick to trout fishing until the grilse show up and I can fish a floater - early season salmon fishing is not for me.

2 Trout, 1 Chub