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Until today 3 salmon hooked elsewhere and 3 salmon lost. Where better to land my first for the season than the ash tree pool Craig Llyn.A short, fat, fresh run beauty about 10 lbs. The river was slightly high and peaty from the dams, so fished a heavy all yellow pencil fly on very fast sink line cast square across and fished fast through the white water. Looks promising up here given some more wet stuff. Slipped in as usual but not too deep this time.

1 Salmon

2 very small but beautiful Brown Trout and one good sized Rainbow caught on spoon and spinner. Brown Trout returned to the water immediately.

Fly fishing - very windy conditions - no fish caught.

The fishing was so poor on Tuesday that we did not fish on Wednesday. Please see my report for Tuesday. I would appreciate your comments on your annual netting of this river and presumably an expectation when accepting bookings that fish would be present on this beat.
WUF Note : See WUF Note on ID: 20538.

4 Trout

2 Trout

I caught one brown trout about eight inches long. The Usk was quite big and coloured but fishable in places.

1 Trout

Ever the optimist I hoped that the fish would be more cooperative than they were at Trallong the day before. Once again there was no shortage of insect life but virtually no sign of fish moving. My only fish, taken on a nymph from the Junction Pool at eight inches looked to be smaller than the one I saw in the mouth of a mink on the opposite bank lower down! I agree with the comment made by a previous angler regarding the barbed wire wound round the top of a firmly closed gate downstream of the farm - dangerous to life, limb and waders.

1 Trout

A fine day with hatches of olives and mayfly, but the fish were not rising. Tempted some up with an adams but couldn't connect and when I did lost them before coming to hand. Beautiful day and a pleasure to be by the river.

Arrived at 2.30pm and had wonderful sunshine bit of clouds a strong wind to start which eased of to nothing as evening drew in. Lake looked lovely and had 16 Brownies all on the dry fly and used several types of my own tying but the fish didnt seem fussy! Mainly used a size 16 with a grizzle hackle trimmed underneath so fly layed down in surface better with a small bit of black mole dubbing as body.
Again drove down to the lake easily in my estate.
Evening rise was fantastic with fish rising continually for several hours and great fun with some. The biggest Brownie at just over 10inches.
Back next year without a doubt!

16 Trout