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3 trout returned.

A lovely day on a charming beat, but the fishing was challenging due probably to low water and bright sun. Only 3 small trout (less than 1/2 lb each) caught (and returned). All caught on nymphs (pheasant tail and non-specific Czech nymphs). One decent fish (probably 1 or 1 1/2 lbs was played for a brief time and lost). Very few fish were rising, despite a huge hatch in the late afternoon/early evening. Dry flies were tried without success.

Another cracking day. The fishing was hard work again. Morning spent on the lovely upper beat, regret not spending longer exploring this section of the river because it looks extremely fishy. My friend and I caught a number of small Trout (less than 6inches) with only one sizeable fish lost by my friend. Afternoon was more successful, I had 5 nice brownies of around 1lb or so and my friend had one of a similar size on a dry in the evening. Good evening rise but the fish were reluctant to take our offerings! Many thanks again.

1 Brown Trout 6oz caught on a GRHE returned. Very low water hot sunny day. Had about five takes in total. The Upper beat is a lovely beat.

Bright and very hot day, very low river conditions for the time of year. Lots of black gnat evident and the odd olive.
A number of stock fish happily rising on the flats above the bridge, but little else willing to brave the sunny weather.

About a dozen fish to a pound taken on small nymps and occasional dry griffiths gnat.

8 browns to about a pound and a bit all on a dry fly and rose probably two or three times that number. Had rising fish to cast to practically all day with multiple hatches. Beautiful warm sunny day with bluebells, whitebells, violets, primroses and celandine all along the banks.
Thank you and thank the estate for me please.

Caught and released two brown trout 10" above bridge on Hornet Oak beat to New Zealand style klinkhammer and nymph, and a third smaller trout to a gold head nymph below bridge fishing upstream wets. A lot of varied fishing to explore and I would like to come back and try again later this year.

This was the first time at the estate and I can only say it was a fantastic day, all of the team from the estate were very friendly and helpful.

We had 6 trout in total between 10" and 16 " all were returned. Surprisingly on such a warm day there was very little fly activity, all the fish were taken on various gold headed nymph, with smaller fish snatching at small olives.

I would thoroughly recommend the estate as a place to visit.

11 Brown trout, between 12 and 15 inches, all returned. A mix of stockfish and some wild, great hatch of grannom and a steady trickle of march browns, which they seemed to prefer when it came to rises and fish hooked.

18 x trout, mainly on dry fly but a number on spiders. Mostly stock fish from 13-15 inches, plus a few smaller wild ones. There was a slow large dark olive hatch from early morning, but I was surprised to see a short and intense grannom hatch around midday. This last seems very, very early in the year, but I received a call yesterday that they had also been seen on the Usk Town Water. Perhaps the very warm days and low water have brought the grannom forwards.