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Only 2 but big fish. 2½lb and 3lb.

2 Trout

Fished for two hours using gold bead nymph. No fish seen and no takes. A little disappointing although weather cold.

Tree felling made vehicle access impossible. Likely to be so for about the next two weeks.
Fished fly & spinner. River high, good colour. Fishable.

Worm

1 Trout

1st fish 2lb, on a black shuttlecock, 2nd fish on a green gold head nymph.

2 Trout

Rained all day. Some movement first 2 hours. 2 nice fish taken, 12/14ins. Harry thom/use nailer. By lunch time water rose coloured up.no further movement

3 Trout

15 x trout 10-15 inches, Deer Hair Emerger, Dark Moorgame, Waterhen Bloa, Tungsten Hare's Ear. A session from 10 o'clock to around 4 o'clock on just the one pool of the middle Usk. I was determined in my mind to wait here for a hatch - grannom, dark olives, March brown, all or any would have been acceptable. However, the day was spoiled by an increasing cold upstream wind which eventually became a gale with waves marching up against the current, and a lack of sunlight as time went on. To keep myself amused while waiting for some kind of action on the surface I went through the pool several times with a team of spiders with a nymph on the point and eventually built up to 8 trout. It was a long wait though until nearly 2 o'clock when a few March browns began to float down and trout began to show. I switched to the dry fly rod with a Deer Hair Emerger and eventually got 7 more, although often I couldn't see the fly amongst the waves. It really seemed very cold indeed. Everything quiet again by 4 o'clock.

15 Trout

13lb, beat 1, carefully returned, wonderful Spring fish.

1 Salmon

First day fly fishing: great tuition with Shaun Watkins. Dull and windy conditions had a grayling and a brown trout both around the 1lbs. Lost a fish and missed takes, hatch of May browns around lunch time fish didn't come on just a small number was surfacing. Great surrounding and well maintained banks

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Started at 12.30 below the bridge. The trout were riseing to dark olives and my companion,John targeted them whilst I went for salmon. A good silver fish showed about 100yds below the pub but didn't respond. The trout were more cooperative, John hooked/rose 6 but only landed 1. At 3pm we went above the bridge. John fished Woodstream and landed another 4 trout. I Stuck with the double hander without result. It was great to go to the river and see signs of life. We left at 4.30

5 Trout