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Arrived at midday, the river looked very nice, a little lower than on my previous visit. Watched the water for a while but saw no fish rising despite a few varied flies coming off. Found a few fish rising eventually and managed to take a small brown trout off the surface on a dry fly which is always nice. I was determined to fish a dry fly as fish were rising on and off during the day and I did miss a few takes but despite my best efforts no more fish were caught. I'm finding I tend to struggle a little on the bigger rivers so maybe some guiding would be helpful.

1 Trout

Our 3rd day on this trip and still the fish are not looking up, despite perfect conditions. We fished a tandem rig most of the day and the nymph again accounted for the vast majority of fish. Some real beauties up to 3lb lost before the net. Best fish today about 2lb.
Superb fishing thank you Wye & Usk Foundation.

20 Trout

A late start, about mid day, and the predicted rain hammered down at times in an otherwise grey but very warm day. Rises were sparse until late afternoon and early evening, but Mayflies were still around, and the odd one or two were sipped below the surface or snapped under bank-side vegetation. I prospected with a wide range of Mayflies, mostly looking in likely places where fish might be. I missed several by being taken by surprise and a lack of concentration, but caught 9 WBT in all - three of which were of a notable size. A beautiful setting.

9 Trout

7.5 lb - Fly Ally shrimp

1 Salmon

Arrived at midday, the river looked very nice, a little lower than on my previous visit. Watched the water for a while but saw no fish rising despite a few varied flies coming off. Found a few fish rising eventually and managed to take a small brown trout off the surface on a dry fly which is always nice. I was determined to fish a dry fly as fish were rising on and off during the day and I did miss a few takes but despite my best efforts no more fish were caught. I'm finding I tend to struggle a little on the bigger rivers so maybe some guiding would be helpful.

1 Trout

6lb cafn Cascade

1 Salmon

Warm and overcast day with the river running low. Started fishing at 0800 with very little fly life. Started with upstream nymphs fished deep that produced 2 small trout in the first 10 mins. A few grayling came to the net over the next couple of hrs then a hatch of yellow sally stoneflies got the fish looking up and they were pretty keen to take my pale olive emerger pattern. Fished till about 16:00 then called it a day. No fish of great size to mention predominantly from 8" to 15". Fantastic day.

4 Trout, 14 Grayling

Lovely afternoon and perfect conditions. Vanstone bouncing with fish, one grabbed the fly as I stripoed in but didn't hook up. Parking is now back in the correct place and makes this beat a pleasure to fish.

Some might find this strange but I'm not sure I fully enjoyed the fishing today. A personal competitiveness took over and I began to focus on the numbers rather than enjoying the process. I caught 17 fish on the bottom part of the beat and then drove on to the top part for the last part of the afternoon and caught 11 more. A mixed bag of sizes and nothing above 12". All caught on either an Adams Parachute or a Mayfly pattern.

28 Trout

3 fish 1.1/4 to 1.3/4 lbs

3 Trout