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6 x BT, 9 to 12inches, one on mayfly, 5 on Adams.
All returned safely.

6 Trout

6 x BT between 9 and 12 inches, all returned safely. One on mayfly and 5 on Adams. Downstream wind and bright sun made conditions difficult until around 4.30 pm when the fish came on the feed.

6 Trout

Conditions reasonable but a bit bright for most of the day.
Very few mayfly about and even fewer rising fish. Fished for the 'mayfly experience'- didn't happen.

Four nice sized trout, the smallest weighing approx' 1/2lb and the best weighing 1.75lb, were caught on dry-fly using mayfly imitations during heavy rain and windy conditions. All trout were caught using barbless hooks and were returned alive and healthy after recovering. Terrific mayfly hatch!

4 Trout

This river is fishing very well. 4 beautifully conditioned brownies on a mayfly fished upstream and one brownie on a small black nymph fished across and down. Many many more times that number of fish missed due to lighting speed of takes and dullness of my reaction! Day unfortunately prematurely ended at around 3pm by a broken rod - something I will never take for granted again.

5 Trout

I was looking forward to a good days sport at Skenfrith, however a one hour downpour coloured the river and made life difficult. There were some olives hatching and some mayflies, but the fish didn't seem particularly interested, with just the odd rise, generally tucked against the bank. I managed to persuade two to take my yellow mayfly, one an absolutely beautiful 15" fish, the other and equally attractive 11". Hard work but a good day eventually. I think this is a very nice beat and with favourable water will be great to fish. My sympathy to the other angler who was on the beat and broke his rod! At least he caught some too!

2 Trout

Amazing day on a brilliant beat. Cloudy and bright, water very slightly coloured. Incredible hatches. Mayfly and Yellow dun coming off for most of the day. It became cooler with a shower towards 6.30pm. First fish caught at about 12noon on a Mayfly nymph. Caught fish regularly thereafter proceeding up the beat; mayfly nymph in the rougher water produced more fish including a magnificent wild brown trout that was 16 inches and deep, also a fair sized grayling. Dry flies accounted for the rest - (including one trout with a blue mark on its belly - stocked?) para Adams, a CDC yellow dun (a la Davie McPhail) doing the damage and then towards the end of the my own Mayfly pattern took three more.

14 Trout, 1 Grayling

Lovely overcast, mild day. Saw a kingfisher scudding upstream when I arrived which is always a good start. 10 bt to 3/4lb. Caught on emergers and grey wulf. There was a decent hatch of mayfly and good dry fly life.

10 Trout

A fine day with hatches of olives and mayfly, but the fish were not rising. Tempted some up with an adams but couldn't connect and when I did lost them before coming to hand. Beautiful day and a pleasure to be by the river.

Rain previous day in mountains. Muddy. No catches.