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Rain the previous day put the fish on the feed. Trout to 13” ( fat as butter ). Caught fish on spiders and dry fly.

10 Trout

Water very skinny, clear and fast. Very few signs of life, no fish landed.

Slightly cooler overcast day so hoping for a reasonable day after all the bright sunshine. River extremely low , I’m hoping this was the reason for a non productive day and not my abilities!
Walked the length of the beat before setting up , not one fish seen, not one rise and no hatch, a thoroughly disappointing day!
Fished Penpont 4 times now and three of the four visits have been extremely hard work, I’ll give it a miss next time and try another beat!

Very hard beat very low water and very clear but lovely views and stuff

1 Trout

This is the first of two days' fishing on the Penpont beat, so what follows applies to both days. No fish, no rises, no takes - river was low and clear, wind was bitingly cold and from the East. I tried spiders and PTNs on 5 weight line and used the dry fly rod just to get some practice in. I imagine much finer tackle was needed, plus a much better angler than me to catch fish!

Summer levels,sunny day. A few small hatches of olives annd March browns although I saw nothing rise. Not a touch on spiders or upstream nymphs.

A day of glorious weather! Really did feel like spring although no-one told the fish. We are always keen to get our first session in and the weather forecast certainly encouraged us. A few olives hatching but not a single fish seen moving - the river is low and the sun was bright. By 5pm we were back at the bridge by the house so walked up from there and after a day of fruitlessly matching the hatch all day Jim tied on a ginger Jingler. First cast in to the fast water … wallop! A lovely 15” trout. Saved the blank!

1 Trout

River rather low and very quiet. No fly and only a couple of rises observed in five hours of fishing. Just one 8” trout caught.

1 Trout

Water very fishable but very cold (no higher than 6 degrees on thermometer all day)! Plenty of spider and nymph fishing with no success and no fish seen, about to leave when spotted a fish rising 100 yards above bridge regularly so put a size 16 quill olive over it and landed it first cast!

1 Trout

Good conditions. Fish healthy, classic Usk browns. Woolly Bugger, black.

3 Trout