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11 Brown trout, between 12 and 15 inches, all returned. A mix of stockfish and some wild, great hatch of grannom and a steady trickle of march browns, which they seemed to prefer when it came to rises and fish hooked.

18 x trout, mainly on dry fly but a number on spiders. Mostly stock fish from 13-15 inches, plus a few smaller wild ones. There was a slow large dark olive hatch from early morning, but I was surprised to see a short and intense grannom hatch around midday. This last seems very, very early in the year, but I received a call yesterday that they had also been seen on the Usk Town Water. Perhaps the very warm days and low water have brought the grannom forwards.

3 trout all on dry olive patterns. Good LDO hatch 11 - 1. River low and very clear.

Two nice browns of about a pound both on an olive nymph, both returned. One or two rising fish in the afternoon in the smoother, deeper water but no response to a dry fly.
A beautiful spring day - very enjoyable.

Two browns - one just under a pound and one about 3.5 pounds or even more. Both taken on an olive nymph, both returned. A trickle of LDOs about lunch time but no rises and generally hard going.

1 x Trout ~ 1Lb - returned. No salmon / Grilse seen or felt. Top half of fishery is lovely, bottom half - more difficult access.

6lb salmon caught on spinner.

Fantastic day on a lovely beat. No salmon for me, although I saw a great coloured fish jump, and felt like I was in with a chance all day. I did have a couple of nice browns on a small Ally's shrimp fly, which I released.

Total 8 - all returned. Mostly small trout. Largest ¾lb, 1lb and 1lb 2oz. Most caught on nymphs. Only fished the evening - 8pm on. Good rise but mostly v. small fish.

Arrived about 11am. Overcast warm and still – Perfect! No fish rising, fished the fast water below the church. Fished GBHE nymphs New Zealand style. Got 2 fish about 8 inches and nice fish about 12 inches. Some fish rising in the dead water on the rh side, couldn’t interest them in anything.

Moved down to the faster water at the bottom of the beat. Got four fish 10 -12“. Two took the nymph, two took the klink, a big pink job. Lost a further two.

Waited until the evening, fished the tail of the fast water at the bottom stretch, fish rising from about 8 ish, tried a few flies without success until I tried a Tupps, then started to get takes, unfortunately didn’t manage to land any. Enjoyed the company of Steve, another Wye and Usk customer during the day

Thanks as ever to the Wye and Usk Foundation for a very enjoyable day.