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Very little fly. Four hatches/rises of about one minute each over a two hour period.

2 Trout

Three fish all over 1lb, with the biggest a beauty at 2lb. A great start to the trout season. Took me a while to find where the fish were holding, all were taken on nymphs fished deep. There was a brief hatch of march browns and LDOs around lunchtime and an occasional rising fish but I couldn't tempt any to a dry despite my best efforts. A beautiful beat that is well worth a day out, although it did feel as if it would come into its own more as the weather warms slightly.

3 Trout

One small 10 Inch fish on a march brown dry and 4 x 14-16 inch Usk belters on streamer.

5 Trout

A lovely warm day on the river. The water was clear but high so we decided to sit and wait for rising fish. There was a small hatch of LDOs and a smattering of March Browns here and there but in all, we saw 4 rises. A good fish was hooked and lost, but with the insects gone, we called it a day. Beautiful scenery and lovely to be out.

3 Trout

Fished 9:30am to 5:30pm. Cold start +3C. Nothing rising so fished the rocky pools at the top and under the trees and along the edges with nymphs, down and across. No takes. There was a good hatch of BWO from midday and spinners from around 5:00pm. At 4:00pm the trout started rising to micro flies. Scaled down to various size 22 flies with 1.0mm tippet but could not get any takes. Nice day out in some glorious weather but super frustrating.

5 Trout

9 Trout

Fished 12-9pm. Sporadic rises early afternoon and fish extremely wary. Long stretches of the river very shallow and seemed mostly devoid of activity. Found some groups of fish in some deeper glides under trees and the river came alive from 6pm onwards. Hatches of blue winged olive and some brook dun. Fish seemed to be mostly taking small stuff / emergers, but tempted several on small cdc Emerger patterns.

9 Trout

Conditions seemed perfect, over cast and still but nobody told the fish. Foul hooked two trout on a nymph which I would think qualifies as trawling rather than fishing. Zero hatches or surface activity. Perhaps the evening was more productive

Beautiful beat

2 Trout