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Very tough. 2 small trout.

2 Trout

Both blanked

Fished with my brother today, caught six the biggest 19" and he had a few more including another beauty of 16"(report to folllow). We were bit worried about the weather on arrival as there had been a fair dump of rain overnight. On arrival the river was up about a foot and rather colured, visibility about three feet. Few insects and nothing rising but we did pick up the occasional fish on nymphs. Later on the water cleared a bit and some caddis, and a few olives got going - the odd rise then and we got a couple on Klinhamers but most were on nymph today. The 19"er gave a good scrap in the strong flow, I was worried she would power off downstream but thankfully managed to guide her into a slightly slower eddy. Beautiful fish, and rather different in appearance to many other Usk browns - olive with few, faint spots, although still with that wonderful gold colour around the head and underbelly and in lovely condition. All fish returned as usual. Thanks for a lovely day out!

6 Trout

The beat fished quite hard through the day- but two trout caught in the end, with the best at 16" on a sedge, late afternoon. A hard on light tackle- glad I was fishing strong, 6lb tippet.

I also missed some others on dries and had a smaller fish using a small Woolly Bugger streamer. There are some fine fish here, but the feeding spells can be short.

2 Trout

Fishing was slow at the start, although beautiful on the river in lovely sunny conditions. It picked up a bit later on when a few insects started showing - half caught on caddis patterns, others on small mayfly duns and spinners.

6 Trout

Tough day. No risers until last knockings and then I just couldn’t work out what they were taking. 4 trout on nymphs

Access is very poor and dangerous. Ok once in the river though.

4 Trout

A red letter day! Not much happening late morning, although there were a few trout taking midges in slack water - caught a few of those by scaling right back to a size 22 midge pattern. Then a trickle of small mayflies started hatching and continued through the afternoon, whick kept the trout interested for the rest of the day - all caught off the top. Superb fishing, I was just thinking towards the the last cast of the day that the only thing it lacked was a big one (athough most fish beforehand were decent, in the 11-16" category) - when fittingly an 18"er turned up (and nearly made it under some willows, but today was obviously my day)! Fantastic fishing, thanks again!

18 Trout

1 angler fished. Calm warm evening with prolific dark olive hatch. 6 6 BT caught.

6 Trout

1 Trout

V warm sultry evening with no wind at all. Reasonable evening rise and a plethora of biting insects on the wing ! 3 BT caught but further problems with the bull in the access field which saw me having to wade across the river lower down, walk up the opposite bank then back across above the higher limit of his electric fence. The reverse procedure at 11pm after the rise had ended was dicey in the gloaming but less so than risking the bull !!

3 Trout