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I found it difficult today, the weather was ok, typical April sunshine and light showers, quite breezy too. The river was as a healthy level and pushing through very strongly.
Spent most of the morning waiting and watching for a hatch as I was confident there’d be one around midday but midday came and went. Then around 1pm a few small grey upwings started to appear, they weren’t big enough or in sufficient numbers to get the trout excited where I was so I moved on until I noticed a small rise in a slower deeper part of the river, a bit of very stealthy wading had me in position and able to present a small dry to the odd rising fish, all of which took my offering but sadly I missed 3 and lost one, then the small hatch was over and no more fish were seen.
A pleasant enough day even with the constant scream and drone of motorbikes with a little bit of action but no fish landed.

Warm and sunny day. River clear and falling. Brecon gauge 1ft 1in. Lovely albeit a bit too sunny. Small hatch of ldo and few march browns around lunch time and the odd sedge. 2 rises all day. Had 5 bt to about 1lb, one salmon parr and one sea trout smolt. Lost 2 very good trout. All on heavy nymphs.

1 Salmon, 5 Trout, 1 Sea Trout

I have not fished this beat before. It is a good stretch of water, however the levels were a touch high and still a bit coloured which meant wading needed care. Due to many trees along the length you have to do a fair amount of walking to wet a line. Not much fly life and only saw a couple of rises. Therefore never really got to grips with this and never enticed anything. A nice day out however.

nothing much happening wirh very little fly on the water, lovely day though

3 Trout

The river was clear but up and pushing, and there was a pretty vicious chilly wind. There was a very sparse hatch of LDOs which never got going and a good but short-lived March Brown hatch. Some trout came up for the March Browns and we managed to get a couple of fish each with one or two takes missed. Best fish of the day was about 1.5lbs, the others all around a pound.

4 Trout

Nothing caught or seen. A wonderful days fishing nonetheless in near perfect conditions.

Rain, rain and more rain. We tried everything with dry fly and nymphs, nothing worked. Almost no activity, only saw two fish rising; and a couple of salmons.
Even when the rain stopped, there was nothing we could do it seemed. We had an ok day, just very disappointing to come back empty handed!

1 fish taken, 2lb brown trout, other fish were small

9 Trout

3 Trout

Delayed departure from SW London meant I didn't get started until 3pm. A few fish rising but managed only a single fish, about 3/4lb, which was returned, on a black gnat .

I have not fished this beat before and found access tricky, possibly because the water level seemed to be high making it difficult to move upstream . I couldn't work out how to fish the upper part of the beat due to the combination of barbed wire and deep water.

1 Trout