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Had 2 hours before the river started to cloud up from the rain while I was fishing

5 Trout

Perhaps a little ambitious to try and cover both beats in one go, only managed a few hundred yards of the middle beat missing and losing several on barbless before the climb back to the car.
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1 Trout

5 Trout

Caught one lost a better one. Very little sign of life from the trout but quite a bit hatching in the afternoon. Nice beat quite tough to fish.

1 Trout

Nice sunny day on the river. Trout up to 9" but nothing rising. Hooked and lost some bigger trout in the deep pools.

4 Trout

Only fished 1/3 of the beat. River is also quite low, but nice trout in the deep pools. Trout up to 12 inch.

4 Trout

After visiting the Crai, moved over to this beat for a couple of hours. Water was almost stagnant, lowest I have ever seen it. Scum and slime over the rocks showed that the rain of recent weeks had somehow by-passed this valley. Despite the tough conditions, Myself and RM had 4 trout, a grayling of 10 inches, a large minnow and a salmon parr - a wild stream grand slam! Fish fell mainly to dries or trailing nymph.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling, 2 Other

A half day session to discover more of the middle section here from the big deep corner pool about half way up the beat itself (short section of some wooden fencing here on the right bank , follow this up the hill a little way and then back down to the wire fence and you can then get over this here ok to the river) up to where the brook comes in by the footbridge and a lovely well shaded section with a good series of riffle / pools here and some very good looking and good length pools too . One of those sections where once your in the water you cant get out easily (or at all ! ) until you get to the brook by the foot bridge but wadeable along edges of pools all the way up to here and you can then get out of the river ok here and walk back down the fence line back to the big corner pool.
A good number of fish where spooked in the tails of the pools.
The water above the footbridge looked very skinny and slow at the moment . The fish to hand went up to about 10inch and all on a 16 black klink'
Lovely !

4 Trout

My first visit to this beat. So 2pm - 7pm mostly spent exploring, since the OS map indicated some quite steep slopes adjacent, and a rather complicated water course. Much better weather than of late and quite fair conditions; though, as anticipated, poor water flow and summer vegetation at its height. The topography turned out to be as difficult to read at ground level as it is on the map, and I only covered the double bank portion of the water available.
Plenty of rising fish (small), to a surprisingly large dark olive. They were not shy, and less easily spooked than their relatives in the Monnow catchment, perhaps since the water carries a slight tinge. I rose half a dozen but they came short ( or I did!). So it was a blank - yet a most enjoyable one. Had I stayed longer, or fished harder, I am reasonably confident a couple might have come to hand. However actually catching fish seems to matter less to me than used to be the case.

Being regretfully time poor for fishing at his time of year I grabbed the opportunity today of a few hours on the water. Not an ideal day to be fishing , hot ( at last ) low water ( a pity ) and a late start 11.30 did not promise much. Hard going ,although fish were feeding on the surface they were very spooky and selective . Summer growth on the banks is at the max and getting a fly to the shady spots is a challenge. All the fish I saw were feeding in very shallow water at the heads of the pools and I had no success prospecting the bottom with nymphs. 1 x 12 ½ " trout to a size 18 para Adams.....finished at 3.30pm.

1 Trout