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Been wanting to give the Lower Cilieni a bash for ages , so mooched off to the Parc Fishery near Sennybridge this morning , arriving near the bridge pull in at ten fifteen . . . . Could hear the river and to be honest nearly did an about turn to the Llynfi at Pontithel , but decided to give it a bash even though it was a bit coloured and running a bit high still from yesterday's rain. . . . . .

Bimbled down to bottom.of beat , were it meets the Usk , lovely looking stream and great variety of water , deep pools nice dry fly runs and riffles and some great nymphing water too . . . Which I initially started on , a small Copper John , caught a lovely seven inch brownie, searching the water was tricky below the bridge as pacey and coloured , wading was pretty tough too , as couldn't see the bottom !!

Cracked on , and further up above the bridge is more open water , sort of reminds me of the Lugg and in places the Llynfi , some lovely water, so changed to a Parachute Olive , and had two in quick succession , lovely little fast feisty fish, fourth one was from slower deeper water , and an absolute beauty , about eleven or twelve inches , superb markings too and quickly slipped back in , a lovely take on the Parachute dry too !!!!!

Last fish again on the Para Olive , was a small feisty fish in the faster shallower water , shame it was coloured up, reckon a lot more fish would have come up to my prospected dry , oh well a lovely four hours here , and five superbly marked Cilieni brownies to hand , great fun will definitely head here again soon , in lower clearer conditions , which will be really fun I think . . . . A fun morning in a peaceful valley . . . . Spot on !!!!!!!!

5 Trout

Perhaps a little too early in the year for this nice looking beat. The section below the bridge is fast and tumbling, above the bridge is slower in character and has larger runs and glides. Plenty of nymphs in the river, not many hatching. And no sign of trout. An interesting wild stream.