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First day GAS beats above Abergavenny were really fishable at last: 1 foot on the WUF Brecon guage and 0.33m at Crickhowell. Clear water pushing through but chilly at 9 degrees. Quite a few Grannom about but were returning pregnant females from earlier days’ hatches; remarkably no Grannom hatch in the sun today before the breeze got up (and the air temperature rose to a heady 12 degrees). Saw a few solitary March Browns either side of midday - none solicited interest from fish, but I did have three on an MB emerger and dropped three others. Grrr! A hatch of olives between 1 and 2p.m. finally got a few fish rising, of which four stuck to a dark olive UB Duck’s Dun: the best 16”, a nice 1.5 pounder. Hopefully this heralds the river coming to life again: Olive Uprights, Large Brook Duns and Yellow Mays next?

7 Trout

Warm sunny day at first, quickly turned cold with downstream gusts for rest of day
Over 1’ on Brecon gauge
Just about handful of upwing flies seen, and only one rise
Four trout 6” to 16”, two on weighted spider, two on streamer, fished with sinking polyleader

4 Trout

Did not fish. Too windy.

Fished between 1and 3 pm lost 3 trout but netted 1 grayling on nymph's ,saw no rising fish today although a few March browns around for a shout time while sun was out. another lovely Wye beat.

1 Grayling

Cold ds wind. Very few MB and LDO seen. Very few rises. Some nice fish caught on nymphs and dries.

6 Trout

1 Trout

after a few blank days had a lovely 20-25lb bar of silver from the gravel catch. fish was marked with what looked like net marks. Went back ok

1 Salmon

Did not fish

A chilly NW breeze for most of the day but a brief respite around 1pm and there was a hatch of MBs.
All fish caught in dry fly and returned, best fish 1.5lb.

6 Trout

A similar story to yesterday, save that I managed to catch a feisty 14”er on nymph during the morning. The hatch when it finally started was no more than a trickle and failed to bring fish to the surface, save for two which I discovered in quieter water above the confluence. The first I rose but only pricked. The second was caught after a change of fly and was much chunkier than the rise form suggested, a beautifully marked 15”er. I share the views of other anglers about the restricted access to this beat. The use of barbed wire is both excessive and unsafe. Otherwise, another lovely day courtesy of the WUF.

2 Trout