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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.

3 trout all on dry olive patterns. Good LDO hatch 11 - 1. River low and very clear.

Two nice browns of about a pound both on an olive nymph, both returned. One or two rising fish in the afternoon in the smoother, deeper water but no response to a dry fly.
A beautiful spring day - very enjoyable.

Two browns - one just under a pound and one about 3.5 pounds or even more. Both taken on an olive nymph, both returned. A trickle of LDOs about lunch time but no rises and generally hard going.

1 x Trout ~ 1Lb - returned. No salmon / Grilse seen or felt. Top half of fishery is lovely, bottom half - more difficult access.