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Hardly fished at all,. as had spent time fishing beat mentioned in previous return but did walk up the stream without spotting a single rise or sign of fish.

The wind and rain finally held off for a few hours so I had a day just fishing the top half of the beat to the end. There's some great stretches here with easy access and casting. A few tiny flies hatching, not enough to bring on a rise, but there were a few rising and I managed to catch 8 trout, one a good 14 or 15 inches. All took a small size 16 emerger pattern.

8 Trout

A disappointing day for me. Cloudy, drizzly showers, cool, downstream wind. River low and clear. Hooked and lost one fish at about 10:30am (the silver flash as it rolled off suggests perhaps a grayling) but didn't see another fish for the next 6 hours. River conditions? Low stocks? Or just me? In One or two places trees have fallen right across the river necessitating an difficult exit. In one case up in the Lyonshall woods, that had to be on the wrong bank but I'm sure that was Ok.

beautiful afternoon the fish seemed to be very skittish today. quite a few fish rising but all in the flat water.

great afternoons fishing with plenty of fish active. managed to hook 7 fish including two in excess of 12". I also had a number of other takes.

7 Trout

Tough going with low water and the annoying down stream wind has returned.
I only fished half the beat up to the train station where I called it a day after losing my fly to a tree.
3 Trout 6,8 and 10 inches 1 on a nymph and 2 to a soft hackle dry.
Still a few Mayfly hatching.

3 Trout

A quick evening visit on the way back home and river was rattling along nicely with a freshet from the recent rains and also carrying a fair tinge of colour and the bed where you could see it has had a nice flush out. Could be good this week I guess !
Nothing much moving on top but some huge olive spinner clouds buzzing around over the river and the swallows and swifts where revelling on them. A size 14 clownshoe caddis got me the one fish so was happy with that.

1 Trout

Fished from 3-7pm, session started very windy and ended very wet, but the river was in excellent condition with a bit more water following recent rains. Started with a small gold head nymph due to the wind and later fished the Klink and dink but only took 1 fish on the Klink! Most fish in the 8-10" range, with one 12"+.
Lovely stretch of river and the top section benefiting from being cleared recently.

7 Trout

2 x anglers fished the morning into early afternoon. The river was very low and clear, saw a couple of trout rise and a couple of fish spook, but otherwise there didn't seem to be any fish in the bits that looked extremely fishy! The fish were probably sat in cover (lots of lovely ranunculus growth, LWD and tree roots about!) or spooking well before we got anywhere near them due to the water conditions and time of day. The couple of trout we did cast to weren't interested in dries and we didn't get anything to take on nymphs in the deep holes. The beat looked like it had been fished all the way through by a couple of anglers very recently so may just have been settling down. A fantastic looking beat with decent access - would like to return when there's a bit more water in the upper section!

9 x trout 6-12 inches, Monnow Gosling, mostly around 10-11 inches. A cloudy morning and I fished up as far as Lyonshall Wood, when light rain started. I walked back via Titley Junction which is becoming a sort of railway museum. Super conditioned Arrow trout - I suppose they should be fat by the end of May.

9 Trout