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A beautiful sunny day with a very cold wind. River was low,running clear. We both lost small fish at the lower end of the beat early in the morning on tiny klinkhammer emergers then it went quiet, nothing rising and no fish to be seen. Switched to various nymphs without success. There was a hatch in the afternoon but still nothing rising. A disappointing day fish wise, but a good day out. My first blank of the season so I cant complain!

Caught 2 trout but lost both. River was clear and not affected by overnight rain. Lovely stretch but not my day.

The day started bright and sunny but the predicted heavy showers arrived in the afternoon. The river was low and clear with a blustery wind. There was very little fly life in the morning but olives did start to appear after midday in between the showers with a few splashing rises. I managed to take 6 grayling on hares ear and pheasant tail nymphs fished under a balloon caddis in the riffles and 2 trout to 11" taken on olive Klinkhammer during the afternoon from the feeding lanes in the longer glides.
A great day out on the lovely beat.

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

A great day on a beautiful river... but it almost felt like winter. Not quite a freezing day, but with cold air being pushed in from the Arctic it was decidedly cool! Bright sun to start with (9am), gradually clouding over during the day, with a few sporadic bursts of sun (which were very much welcome). They was also an occasional gusty breeze that seemed to be coming from no particular direction. You just had to wait for it to pass.

The river was low, but not too low, and it had a good flow to it (possibly from the previous day's hail and snow). It was fresh and crystal clear. It was also good to see that quite a few lower branches on some of the trees had been cut down too, making casting easier in places. In the morning there was no action at all, and I saw no fish. I fished a few sections where I have caught before, but nothing.

Things started to happen from around 2.30 onwards in the upper half of the beat, working upstream back towards Skenfrith. A small Grayling, then I failed to land a much bigger Trout, just inches away from my net when it shook itself free. I moved upstream and caught a further two Grayling, one of which was a good size. But I was still looking for my first Brown Trout of the season. Further up again, and at about 6pm, I finally landed a perfectly formed, small WBT. Great. All caught on a Hare's Ear Nymph on a dropper with a Klinkhammer indicator, and all fish safely returned.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

5 Trout

Fished from 2pm til dusk. Few fish rising at the downstream limit of the beat but we couldn't tempt them. 4 taken from the faster water on nymphs. A hatch of upwings with some rising fish for about an hour started at 18.30 and we managed to take the rest on a soft hackled dry including what we thought were the fish who snubbed us earlier! Largest was about 11 inches. A very enjoyable afternoon.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

A tough day - despite near ideal conditions ! DJ managed to net 2 trout, both safely returned.

2 Trout

River very low, cold downstream wind, mostly cloudy. Small hatch of small upwings at about 2pm, saw no fish rise all day. 2 O/O/S grayling on nymphs from faster runs.

2 Grayling

2 on dry fly, remainder on nymph. Fished the whole water through.

6 Trout, 7 Grayling