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My third attempt at fly fishing...arrived to find the river looking ideal, a good flow and a tinge of colour. Travelled though fog and there was still a frost on the fields, but the sun was shining.
Feel like I fished quite well, saw a few March Browns leaving the surface and even did a reasonable job of "matching the hatch" but by lunchtime I was fishless.
After lunch I walked back to a place I fancied in the morning and to my delight saw fish taking flies off the surface in a slack behind a fallen tree. My novice like casting let me down however and I was unable to present a fly to them and my attempts probably spooked the fish as I didn't see anymore activity.
I lovely spring day on a great stretch of river but I'm still to catch on the fly...maybe next time.

8 x grayling 7-14 inches, 3 x out of season trout 8-13 inches, Pink Shrimp. Plenty of water coming down with a nice greenish colour. Frost to start but warming as the day went on. Heavy bugging all through, one with Tenkara and the other with conventional gear.

8 Grayling

Beautiful day. However, very cold and the temperature never rose above zero. River was very high. Started fishing at noon. Never saw any sign of fish. Prospected for a few hours using the duo method with no success. The point fly varied between shrimp, grhe and ptn.

A cold day, the air temperature never above 4 degrees all day, with no evidence of fly life or hatches. Water was 1ft on the gauge at Skenfrith bridge.
All grayling taken utilising the "Duo method" on the lower fly, a gold head PTN. The OOS WBT was taken on a heavy bug. Great fishery, thanks WUF. Just got recover from the cold...we'll be back!

1 Trout, 12 Grayling

The weather was dry, the temperature around 17c. I set off in chest waders and a short sleeved shirt in search of a grayling. I was informed by locals that access on to the right hand side of the river was not very good and nobody knew if you could walk across fields to enter on to the river. From the Bell Inn, cross the bridge and on your right hand side of the road is a stile leading on to a public foot path. You need to walk at least 200m before the river is accessible. The river was was running fairly fast but wading with care was possible. After fishing various pools and fast waters, I managed to catch my very first and only Grayling of about 20cm on a Pink Shrimp in fast water by letting my fly bumble its way down stream, after first casting across and upstream.
Can't wait to return later on in the year to try my luck in an outstanding area of the country.

1 Grayling

Heavy rain day before, water coloured ,very little activity. Three takes, one brown trout 8oz, hare's ear took fish.

1 Trout

Lovely beat, good water. Easier fishing down the bottom of the beat, less trees. Don't agree it is OK for waders. I only fished an hour and then I suffered a cut at the back of the ankle in my waders (had them 40 odd years with never a leak) and it is too deep in a lot of pools for them anyway, so I will definitely use chest waders next time with my studded boots on. Plenty of fish rising but couldn't tempt one with a small klinkhammer, no good Czech nymphing either.

Plenty of fish rising all day particularly at the start of the beat. Beautiful day for it to boot.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

A tricky day with most of the rising fish in the glides and very spooky.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 x 8 inch brown trout caught on an Adams circa 4.45pm from the pool just upstream of broken water. Overcast, windy and not a lot of activity on the surface otherwise. Fly hook was not deeply embedded: the fish released easily and swam vigorously away. Very pleasant afternoon. The Bell provided ample compensation for the fact that it was, otherwise, an uneventful one.

1 Trout