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A bright day, warm in the sun, but with a chill Easterly wind, made for difficult fishing. Fish were rising, but neither the duo nor spiders could tempt them. A fellow angler had no luck with March Browns. The day was saved almost at the last cast with a 7" fish taken on point by a Hare's Lug #14.

1 Trout

Weather was great and what a lovely location. Unfortunately my ability to catch fish was not so great. On my last visit (last year) I had a successful day, catching some good fish, but not so this time. Upon arrival there were plenty of fish rising just upstream of the bridge and this carried-on for a couple of hours. So, I set about presenting a wide variety of dry flies with absolutely no interest from the fish at all. This has happened to me before elsewhere (thankfully not very often) and I can't quite work out why: maybe they are taking just below the surface such that it appears as a surface take? (Anyone got a view?) I tried fishing sub-surface to no avail (I am not very good at this). Anyway, I ventured downstream into the pool immediately below the bridge and managed to get the interest of what must have been quite a substantial fish as it snatched at my Grey Wulff snapping the tippet in the process. So, had a lovely day but caught nothing and feel a little embarrassed as a consequence on what appeared to be a perfect day for fishing. I will be back though!
WUF Note: AK from Blakeney contacted us to say that his wife lost her watch somewhere near the Penpont bridge. If anyone finds it we would be grateful if they could contact us on 01874 712 074 so that we can arrange for its return.

An excellent day, albeit a cold morning with consistent light rain. Temperatures rose nicely though, and from 12:00-14:00, a fantastic hatch of LDOs were enjoyed and two beautiful trout of 2lb and 2.5lb were landed and returned. 13:00 was the best of the action.

2 Trout

After a wonderful spring day yesterday, today started decidedly iffy. However as the day wore on things improved enough to precipitate a couple of solid March brown hatches. Five good trout caught and safely released, including a classic Penpont Porker: just 17" but 3lb weighed in the net. Fat, deep and strong! By 3pm the sun was shining and spring was back. A great pity I had to leave early!

5 Trout

Rained all day. Some movement first 2 hours. 2 nice fish taken, 12/14ins. Harry thom/use nailer. By lunch time water rose coloured up.no further movement

3 Trout

Lovely day out, hard fishing in the cold wind.

Cold and strong downstream wind, rain and hail. Even so a very few olives hatching and one or two fish moving. 3 fish all on weighted nymph fished as deep as possible. Best fish was about 2lb, a lovely fish, returned of course.

3 Trout

Beautiful, sunny spring day but cold wind and water low. No fish showing.

River low and clear. Overcast, no wind. A few olives from around 11am and a few trout showing at 1 30pm. Caught two good fish in a fast run close to the bank on drys in the morning.

2 Trout

Lovely beat with lots of nice looking water but didn't catch or see a rising fish all day. Only saw a brief flurry of upwings around lunch time but these went un-disturbed by the fish. Enjoyed the day and the spring sunshine but will probably keep my powder dry on returning until the weather warms up and hatches become more consistent. Good to be back on the Usk!