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Enjoyable day despite the trout keeping their heads down other than for a frantic 45 minutes starting about 13.30 pm when there was suddenly a lot of surface action at the top end of the beat with multiple missed takes to a dry and decent fish hooked and played but lost and another landed.

1 Trout

19" brown trout taken on size 16 nymph in deep water

1 Trout

I arrived at 11.30 to find an angler fishing from the middle of the river below where the Cynrig stream enters the Usk. This confluence denoting the top limit of the Abercynrig and bottom of the Dinas beat on the true right bank. Having pointed this out politely he then waded back to the Abercynric beat bank right through the productive run below the Cynrig.

I later returned to find his mate in the same position. Again I pointed out the boundary between the beats. In response the chap said, quite correctly, that the boundary on the true left bank was below the Cynrig. The fact of the matter is that it is impossible to access this stretch from the true left bank due to the bankside growth thus it requires access from the top of the Abercymrig stretch on the true right.

Not wishing to spoil my day or indeed anyone elses with an argument I left it at that.

The reason for mentioning this is that fishing in this manner completely ruins the frequently productive top stretch of the beat for those fishing Abercynrig. It would be helpful for Wye Usk to remove the bottom stretch of Dinas below the Cynrig on the map to avoid potential confusion or conflict given that it can not be accessed from the true left bank anyway.

But it did not spoil my day.

On to the fishing. Much colder today with temps only 7C mid morning, cloudy and a much stronger blustery wind which settled mainly upstreamish happily. Very little hatching although the occasional March Brown drifted down around 1 pm. Birds were hawking from time to time and a few slashing rises here and there indicated that something must have been going on albeit sporadically and lightly. Set about the seams and riffles with and Olive Comparadun and by end of play at circa 16.00 had netted 6 trout. 4 were stunning condition fish around 2 – 2.5 lbs and the other 2 wee chaps of about 12 oz and 8 oz.

Yet another super day on the river.

6 Trout

See report for Dinas same day. Despite using same techniques which caught fish on Dinas, we blanked on Abercynrig.

Sunshine and light showers. River very low. Water at top of beat most promising. 4 trout and 1 salmon parr landed, many other fish bumped off. Saw many good trout in very shallow water half way along the stretch. Fish rising sporadically throughout the day. Parking and access very good.

4 Trout, 1 Other

just one take on ptn sadly missed rise started noon for an hour nothing to show for it

Overcast mild day with light upstream wind. Heavy rain the night before. Started with dries at noon.
Conditions looked good but by 1pm only the odd fish had risen and very few olives coming off. I managed to take 1 trout on a dry.
Decided to try a nymph but had no interest after about an hour.
The temperature was rising and the odd fish rose so went back on a dry. Had a few refusals and after several fly changes got a hook up, sadly it came off. After a few more refusals and no more signs of fish I called it a day at about 3pm.
An interesting and somewhat frustrating day.

1 Trout

1 x 15 inch trout Deer Hair Emerger during March brown hatch. A very strong wind today.

1 Trout

2 brown trout , both 25cm, not weighed. PTN nymph and Adams dry fly. Quiet for most of day, rises around 14.00. Both fish released.

2 Trout

Prolific MB hatch at 1430 for around 40 mins. Seemed to be taking emergers - they ignored every surface MB pattern I had but two eventually ate a small black klinkhammer.

One fish of 16inches (but remarkably fat for this early in the season), one of 15, and the remainder smaller - 7 in all.

7 Trout