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15 lb Salmon caught on black rubber spinner Silver fresh fish. Lost a big one snapped 15lb line also we had two more that came off.

1 Salmon

6th fish of season. 11 lbs.single hook flying c. Fresh hen. Weighed in net

1 Salmon

Not cold but no hatch whatever. 2 small trout on nymph. Disappointing.

2 Trout

34" (15 lbs) Quarry Pool, L.Ballingham (Doctors), FlyingC

1 Salmon

Cold east wind. Very little hatching. Three trout to 14", on nymph in fast water. All returned.

3 Trout

I fished for a couple of hours in the early afternoon. River fairly low and the water cold. 1 trout caught on a tungsten bead nymph and 2 oos grayling on a dry fly.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

No rising fish seen and very little fly life. Fished for 2-3 hours with weighted nymph but no success. Wish the weather would warm up!

Weather better than forecast, no east wind although quite chilly. Fished the bottom of the beat, between the two weirs before it drops down into the lower pool. No surface activity but they rose to a dry when presented.
After lunch I fished the lower section of Dinas, which I had booked, shame they have split the beat.
Steady LDO hatch from 12:30 to 2:30 , fished up from the stream to the sewage pool. Lots of fish rising. 15 fish for the day between 10 and 14 inches, all hard fighting and lively
Great days fishing. Thanks as always to Wye and Usk for excellent service

15 Trout

8 Trout

Got to the beat at 12.30 to find a steady rise of dark olives coming off the water in Lady Alexander's Catch with fish rising freely. Though dry fly would have probably been successful I started with a team of three wets unweighted to stay high. Plenty of tugs and taps and four fish to hand fairly quickly (plus a couple lost near the net). Although I had on a GRHE and an olive spider all four trout were caught on C V Hancock's 'Pet' wet fly as described by Courteny Williams. As this was something I had tied the same morning I felt more than pleased. I then heard my first cuckoo of spring to add to the pleasure.
The rise subsided at about 1.30 and fishing slowed a little so I moved upstream to the Abernant Pool but found it unusually quiet with only one fish caught (again to the Pet). Back in the faster water downstream the odd fish was still rising and I caught steadily until packing up about 6.30. 12 trout in total with 8 to the Pet and the others (plus 4 salmon parr) to the GRHE and olive spider equally. Tip of the hat to C V Hancock.

12 Trout, 4 Other