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Spent 1.25hrs on the upper section of this Lilliputian beat in mid-afternoon, after trying in the morning but was beaten to it by another angler who perhaps like me had read JM's entry from Wednesday and was taking his advice!
No fish rising but occasional up-wing emerging (Iron Blues or Medium Olives?). Hawthorn flies and Black midges in evidence and an Alder fly sitting on a fence post!
Fished with surface fly and suspended nymph - a size 16 Gold-headed Endrick Spider on which I caught the fish and missed others.

1 Trout

Made an early start and fished the morning. Fished various small nymphs(HEs and PTNs) and some shrimps but drew a blank. Saw just two small trout and didn't seem to disturb any others. No fly and no rising fish. Turned over a lot of stones and woody debris and surprisingly found no nymphs at all. Loads of Gammarus and huge numbers of what appear to be mini-caddis houses! Beautiful. Maybe the stream will wake up when these caddis pupate and produce adults. If that emergence is anything like on the Usk, then, like most things this year,it is overdue, but should be any time soon. Hope it happens before the bankside vegetation closes in!!

Blank. Oh my, I do find this one challenging! You need to be early, before the vegetation grows over it, you need a windless day to help you cast accurately up the tiny channel, and it should be warm enough for fish to be rising. Nothing was rising today and no less than four heavy tractors planting potatoes in the top end fields next to the stream didn't help. As before, saw plenty of fish in places, including some fat trout running for cover, but all of them seemed already to have been spooked. It's an amazing little river though, full of life.

A cool wind made fishing difficult and no fly hatches. Tried various klinks and nymphs from 1-4pm with no success.

Tried this little stream for the first time - so small but lots of likely looking spots. Several fish spooked but none taken. Can see it might be tricky fishing once the vegetation has grown. No sign of a hatch.

Cold day, nothing caught