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2 WBT 13" to klink #16. Lost a big fish after furious fight. Good day with some showers and sunny spells. Brilliant beat, friendly owner. Thank you.

Warm, bright sunny day, stiff breeze blowing upstream. Difficult day. 1 Brown Trout 7in taken on GHPTN.

A difficult days fishing. Wind and drizzling rain making it only worse. Saw very little surface activity and trundling nymphs, (weighted and unweighted) along likely looking runs produced nothing, often to some surprise.

2 brown trout caught on hairs ear nymph and pheasant tail nymph. One about 5 inches and the other 10inches. Great beat fantastic location.

Fished wet flies down and across at sun down for about an hour, though nothing caught or seen. Camping at Penpont was very good and highly recommended for anyone looking to camp in the area.

6 small WBT 6-8 oz, one on surface iron blue all others on goldheads. Very stormy day with rain giving way to bright sunshine. Hatches were prolific though, throughout the day, swallows, swifts and martins cashed in but fish only rising very occasionally.
Really enjoyable day but no porkers.

The water was very low, but muddy after rain in the night. Wind nearing gale force straight down the river made casting difficult. We saw no rises and there was no hatch to speak of. Not surprisingly nothing was taking and we left at 3.30.

1 wbt, about 10 inches on a mayfly imitation. Lots of fish rising, but despite trying lots of different flies struggled to get much interest.

I arrived at the beat only to find the river in an almost skeletal condition. The water crystal clear and extremely low. Not a hint that fish were present. This coupled with a more than comfortable downstream breeze suggested to me that this was going to be a tough day.

And, so it proved. I managed to bring one solitary fish of about 1/2lb to the net and pricked at most 3 or 4 more.

I did get a glimpse of one of the so called "Penpont Porkers" patrolling a shallow section of river mid-beat. Due to it's position relative to the wind and trees I decided to leave it be and return another day when conditions were more favourable.

Left the river at 3pm just as a hatch of mayfly had begun but even this wasn't enough to get fish moving.

The river was extremely low although still very beautiful. 6 small trout caught to half a pound and a couple of larger ones hooked and lost on f-flies. Good hatches of caddis and small upwinged mayflies/ephemera. If fishing is to pick up we need a downpour! Lovely day on the water even though the Usk trout were elusive.