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Two small Brown Trout (C&R). River very low. Sun very bright. Had I been able to fish in the evening I'm sure it would have been better. I was not happy to have campers from the downstream field walking well upstream throwing stones into the water. I asked them not to and they did stop.

No joy despite a few rises from the lower half of the beat. Conected with a tiny tiddler but not much else. Beautiful weather although the river was very low and is in desperate need of some healthy rainfall.

What a glorious day to be in Wales the drive from Crickhowell to Brecon was a joy. Penpont is never an easy days fishing in my experience, but what a fantastic day to be on the water, beautiful spring sunshine and the air crisp and fresh. I intended to leave for my return to Kent about 2 ish so I targeted the pools that I had found productive in the past, caught a nice 10 inch brown on GRHE, may have missed a couple. Day seemed ripe for a hatch, waited in the warm sunshine for some fly activity, none materialised, nymphed the pool again but no success this time.
Called into to see Jean at Sweets on the way back, picked up some of her ridiculously cheap hand tied flies, as ever, an offer of a cup of tea. If you haven’t paid Jean a visit please do so, independents like this need our support. We both agreed a torrential downpour of three days duration was needed. Consensus is, from spooned fish, that they are feeding on the bottom, lots of snails apparently.

Caught just the one but it was a beautie, 1lb 10oz and in stunning condition. Had three other takes from smaller fish on a CDC LDO, including one of ~1lb but didn't hook them. Few rises and they petered out so I put on a small olive baetis nymph, thought I'd lucked out until I had one of those 'Damn I've hooked a rock...hold on it's moving' moments! Decent numbers of LDOs hatching through the afternoon, also the odd larger fly (also saw some big 'stoneclinger' husks on water surface - possibly even March browns?). Very pretty beat and a nice day day out - thanks!

One brown trout of 2lbs plus. It was returned safely as requested.

One of the prettiest bits of river I've seen (although I hadn't expected to see someone swimming by the campsite). Did expect to see more fish with none showing until dusk despite good hatches for most of the afternoon. No fish caught.

Water low and very clear with very little activity, I saw one rise all day. Even when there was a smallish hatch around 1.00 p.m. the trout showed no interest. Let's hope for a bit of water and higher temperatures.

Apologies, this report is very late. Unforgivable. No fish caught. Cold westerly kept the hatch to a minimum. When the wind dropped there were small but steady hatches of LDO. No fish sighted apart from small fry in the shallows. River very low and clear. A difficult day!

A perfect spring day. Birds on the wing, lambs in the fields and flies hatching off from around 10 until 14.00. The fishs' attention had been caught by the insects and were rising from time to time, if not consistently. I caught three fish, two of 6 to 8 oz and a third thumping great big beast of around 3lb. Too large to fit my 21" net. The fish all took a dry fly. An excellent beat, quiet lots of variation and good radio reception for listening in to England once again just scraping through a cricket match! A great day.

We caught one very nice brown trout of about 3 lbs. It was released unharmed.