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Only fished a couple of hours in the evening (half of the beat). Plenty of small trout with the occasional trout to 12 inch. Nice otter is living on this beat. Otter was surprised someone else was fishing the pool :-)

15 Trout

Decided to fish Penpont for the first time today, as I thought that the club beats above Abergavenny might be off limits following the recent heavy rain off the Black Mountains. What a truly stunning beat this is - just turning a few stones shows how the beat feeds its reputed “Porkers”. Shrimp, cased and caseless caddis, mini-caddis, and Heptagenid Heaven. An invertebrate McDonalds! On arrival at 8 a.m. there were midge, olives and lots of Olive Uprights (at last!!) already on the wing, and fish rising, which they kept doing until the various hatches finished at about 1.30 p.m. when the forecast wind got up as well. After that, there were a few solitary risers but brunch was over for sure! I had eighteen fish with the majority surprisingly of 14-16 inches, generally 1.5-2lb, of Penpont fatties, plus a lovely 18” fish of 2.5lb. All the fish were off the top with most taken on an Olive Upright Duck’s Dun, and the rest on a hare’s ear emerger and an olive Jingler. Given the numbers of upwings, there must be an evening spinner fall well-worth fishing for here at this time of year, but today I had to go. Also saw quite a lot of mayfly so, if you come to fish this beat over the coming month, bring some mayfly patterns as well. I must fish on Friday the 13th again! I’ll be back.

18 Trout

Managed a couple of hours late afternoon. Cannot believe half way through May and this is 1st time I have been out.
Arrow was quite high and coloured and this beat has changed a lot from last season. Some very deep holes have appeared.
A lot of fly life - including mayfly, but very few fish rising.
Lost a good trout and had several small splashy grayling.
Stuck with dry fly - but probably should have tried nymph as well.

Bright sunny day. No surface activity, no real hatch. Fished nymphs. 7 trout between 8-12 inches and one grayling. As usual the big one got away! Only fished the rapids at the bottom of the beat.

7 Trout, 1 Grayling

Lovely day on this beautiful stretch of the river. Steady hatch most of the day until 5.00pm. Most of the fish were caught on emergers and olives, some on nymphs. Best fish 2lbs approx.

15 Trout

Decided to make it an Irfon day, and chose to start on the Upper beat which is new to me. Fished the upper section from 10-2 Difficult. Absolutely no rises despite lots of fly life. A fingerling and two others 8/9" all to size 16 weighted GRHE nymph.

3 Trout

Fished 3-6pm....its been 5 years since I fished this beat and you need to be left handed or ambidextrous but it has some good fish,trout and grayling. Fish rising but hard to get to both on size 16 parachute Adams. Worth the walk.

2 Trout

The parking area wasn't obvious and wasn't secure against sheep getting in so parked in a layby on the road. Started at the lower part of the beat, the bottom three pools had fish occasionally rising and all the ones that I saw seemed about 2 pounds plus. I caught 1 trout in the first pool, at least 2 1/2 lbs. The rest of the beat had no evidence of any fish. Returned to the bottom of the beat to the odd fish rising, but failed to catch any more.
Thanks Sam

1 Trout

3 small trout caught and returned. Terry Ward who runs the beats was very helpful. Great venue.

3 Trout

Plenty of water and still a little coloured following Wednesdays heavy rain.7 trout largest 9-10"all on GRHE. Hooked and lost as many. Great fun!

7 Trout