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I had a fabulous day on the Middle Escley. The weather was warm and sunny. When I arrived at the river it looked a little coloured at the very beginning of the beat and where it flowed under the bridge however as I moved on the water became clearer.I struggled to get through the first couple of fences but the effort is well worth it - in my opinion the river becomes even better as you move upstream. There was a amazing amount of fly life, midges, sedges, black gnats various olives and an extraordinary hatch of large up-wing flies - I thought at first they were Mayflies but surely it was too early for them and would it be too late for March Browns? anyway the hatch was fantastic even though my eyesight was not! Unfortunately, I did encounter the lady owner of the property near the river and wished I had paid more attention to a previous piece of feedback and avoided any confrontation by taking the footbridge just below her land. Whilst I fished through, I kept religiously to the right bank and had a reasoned discussion with her although it was clear that anglers cause her great distress. Rather like Betsy Trottwood and her donkeys, she hears her dog barking at the approaching angler and rushes out to confront them for fishing though "her garden" as she described it. It seems for her a bit of a moral crusade, declaring "we are vegetarians and care for the fish".
I felt this was an argument I was not going to win so (very cordially) I walked through "her garden" to above the waterfall and fished on.
I caught 6 beautiful wild brown trout - one of a size that I needed my net to land. All on a parachute Adams. Occasionally casting to a rare rising fish I had most success casting into likely places. I rose and missed quite a few more. I bailed out pretty well exhausted at a ford near Neuadd-lwd thinking I must be near the end! What a beat - had I really only fished just over half of it!
I'll be back - thank you Wye and Usk what a privilege to fish here.

6 Trout

Caught 2 trout but had to leave by 1pm due to other commitments.

2 Trout

2 Trout

A stretch of this lovely river I've ignored so far but I should have not done so for so long! I had a great day catching plenty of nice quality fish on a variety of fly fishing methods. Fish were rising between 10am and 4pm in all types of water on the beat but I was unable to determine what they were eating! Poor old chap with failing eyesight dredges up feeble excuse. I cannot therefore pass on any wisdom to those who follow in my footsteps other than I took fish from slower, deeper stretches on small klinkhammers (black), fish from broken water on elk hair caddis and some from both types on a hares ear fished Klink and Dink.
A lovely day on a nice stretch of river.

11 Trout

Water slightly coloured; no rising fish all day; downstream nymphing. One fish kept.

20 Trout, 4 Grayling

Beautiful day, lots of fly hatches, started on wet fly took 3 small brown trout largest 300g, switched to dry in the afternoon took a further 8 fish all 300 - 700g beautiful condition, lots of rises in the quarry pool & the bend, excellent day, beautiful spot all fish returned & happy.

11 Trout

Perfect conditions (water, weather, hatching fly) but almost no fish showing, even in the most tantalising of spots. A complete blank!

Very difficult due to overhanging trees.

The other angler was my friend O M and he will make separate return. Really disappointing. Looked very promising. Loads of fly life BUT saw not a single rise and caught not a single fish!!
Maybe lots of reasons of course - Were we too early in the day? Fished from about 9.30a.m. Tried all sorts - so after a few hours we gave up and drove home.

Arrived at 10 am. Overcast, cool, very windy. Fished only bellow the weir. Both fish take on a wurm style tungston jig hook with rubber legs size 16. 10 ins & 5ins. Good condition. Released ok.

2 Trout