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Very good beat, beautiful day. All caught on dry fly - little mayfly. Water clear & low.

8 Trout

8 x trout 7-14 inches. Conditions looked ideal - the river up just slightly after showers, a tinge of colour, a clouded sky which threatened more rain (which never arrived), warmish. In fact it was all quite slow fishing, with nothing much rising until after lunch, although olive uprights, medium olives, a few yellow mays, the odd true mayfly plus some terrestrials were all observed on the water at times. Spiders didn't work well, so most of the work was done on dry fly and also New Zealand style nymphs. Hard work, but a very pleasant day.

8 Trout

One smallish trout caught and returned. Despite great expectations based on the glowing reports of good catches recently, the 12 hours of fishing was a waste of time as there were no fish to catch. Plenty of fry but the concensus with other anglers was that the river had been emtied of fish. Nobody was catching anything. So instead of dining on trout I had had to settle for cod in batter.
Not an encouraging outcome for a visitor with expectations.

1 Trout

Water coloured up and high after over night rain. Explored the beat but did not fish.

Bright and sunny; warm, no wind to speak of. No salmon seen or touched; occasional trout rises. But a lovely day.

Wet fly downstream. River still fairly high and cold.
Three brown trout 1 - 1.5lbs. One kept.

3 Trout

5 x trout 9-12 inches. Stopped by for a while on my way from Gloucester to Swansea and found the river running cold and high (so wading was hard work), but it was at least clear. Very few fly seen - just a few dark olives and a couple of March Browns - and no rises, but a few modest trout were prepared to come up to spiders. Regular local anglers tell me that this part of the river has fished quite well lately and a few 2 pounders have been taken this spring.

5 Trout

10 x trout 11 - 17 inches, on spiders, mainly Woodcock and Hare's Lug, and the last three on a Deer Hair Emerger. A good day, warmish but not too bright, water at a nice level. I fished from 10 to around 2.30. There were just two, short (about 15 minutes each) march brown hatches which had fish showing their heads in the fast water at the heads of pools.

10 Trout

A lovely days fishing. Unfortunately no fish caught but there were fish visibly present. Only slightly spoiled when I had to have words with a local who was throwing a stick into the river for his dog where I was fishing and then continued to do so within a few yards of where I moved to.

My first ever Brown trout caught on a dry fly so really chuffed. Had read up on the benefits of a wet and dry duo which worked great. Caught 5 between half to one pound, missed 4. A great afternoon of fishing which taught this amateur lots - can't wait for my next trip. Thanks to the fisherman by the bridge who provided useful local advice.

5 Trout