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4 trout up to 10inches. Very pleasant day but only spasmodic rises. Caught on olive and yellow klinkhammers. A few mayfly showing but the fish did not seem interested in them. Also in one area alot of dace rising.

The beat descriptions were good and accurate on both of the beats we fished, this one contrasted with the first day where access was easy, this was steep banks and long areas where you could not get to fish. Other rod from Denmark caught nothing although we looked at previous reports and used several of the suggestions on the reports. I used dry fly in the morning and was rewarded with a half-pound brownie. In the afternoon I swapped to a wet fly and had a hit almost immediately and took another brownie of the same weight. The one problem was that the abundance of wild life on the river meant that on several occasions I had drifted off watching numerous birds building nests wide range of fly life, what an experience, anyway back to the fishing. Had to walk a fair distance to the far end of the beat before I could get down to the water. It was well worth the walk as very soon I had a hit from the biggest brownie of the two days, weighed about pound and half but put up good fight took about five minutes to get him in. Shortly after took another half-pound on the drift down stream, made a total for the day of four.

Even after a little rain last night the river is still very low. Very windy, almost gail force at times! and hence very little insect life on the wing. Three trout from the more sheltered spots on nymphs before the wind and the debris beat me.

No catches or bites. Only stayed briefly.

Seven trout to 14", all on dry fly (Greenwells).

Total haul of 20 brown trout caught on various mayfly patterns, from 20cm to 40cm.

1 x Brown Trout 10". Very enjoyable.

14 x trout 10-12 inches, standard Adams. A very discouraging start with the river, not up by much, but extremely thickly coloured - maybe 6 inches visibility - and very few rises. I came across just three before lunch: missed one, pricked one, caught one. But as afternoon wore on towards evening, although the water remained coloured, all sorts of fly life - midges, small caddis, medium/small olives, yellow may, early damsels - became apparent and fish began to rise more regularly until the fishing became quite busy. A few true mayfly around from late afternoon, but I only saw one trout reacting to the big white flies. What they really wanted were the olives, so I stayed with the Adams all through as it was getting takes consistently. There were a couple of larger fish came off in play, as they do, but nobody wants to hear that sad story again....

15 x trout 10-15 inches, mostly on a Parachute Adams. There are a couple of advantages to this very low water. Firstly you can explore the river bed in detail to the advantage of later fishing in more normal flows. And secondly you can wade through places you would never get through normally and fish them. In fact it turned out to be a very nice dry fly day. And, guess what - the mayfly is up! A few began to hatch off about 4 pm and after a bit a couple of trout began to react with those lovely "ker-splosh" rises. I have another report of mayfly from the middle Usk. 3rd May is very early, but everything seems to be early this spring after the heat-wave weather.

Water low and clear, bright sun all day. Two small brown trout, one fell off at the bank! Both on the holy grail. There were a few fish rising, but no takes from the top. I'm not the greatest fly caster and found the overgrown conditions difficult so did not really cover the rising fish, a better caster would have caught more I'm sure. A really nice beat that could be much improved by some major bank work.