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Not good, nothing caught.

Dry day with wind increasing late morning.
No success with worm bait but manage to catch 2 rainbow with spinner during early afternoon.

2 Trout

3 rainbows about 1 1/2lb caught spinning deep. Tried drowning worms, float and ledger most of the day to no avail.
Weather -2c, early in the day, mid day temp rose, glorious afternoon.

3 Trout

Booked day before as Wyesham still too high. First time on this beat so just concentrated on the parts indicated by Terry. Water up here clear, so fly fished most of lower beat 6 and island down on 2 with a little long distance spinning on the parts I could not reach. Nothing showed, only game about were pheasants.

4 x trout 10-12 inches, 12 x out of season grayling 6-14 inches. Cold (plenty of snow still on Black Mountains), sunny and high water. Hatches more or less mirrored those on the Usk this week, large dark olives from about 12.30, followed by a sparse hatch of march browns, all done by 3 o'clock. Followed the hatches with Waterhen Bloa, then dry with Bastard Adams and finally a Deer Hair Emerger. The only problem was that it was the out of season grayling, still dominating the pools, rather than the trout, which were putting their heads up.

4 Trout

Single hook black F C. This fish was just over 30" in length, a siver hen estimated at 12lbs. As it was hooked in same spot as yesterdays 19 1/2 lb cock fish, I believe they travelled together. (Boat Pool at TC)

1 Salmon

Nice sunny day for the first outing, but with a cold breeze. Good flow in the clear river, also a steady hatch of ldo's from about 12 to 3.00pm, although no sign of any rising trout. Tempted 3 all on GRHE nymph, 2 at 10" and 1 at 12" - lean but fit. Pleased with this from what can be a tough stream at times.

3 Trout

My third attempt at fly fishing...arrived to find the river looking ideal, a good flow and a tinge of colour. Travelled though fog and there was still a frost on the fields, but the sun was shining.
Feel like I fished quite well, saw a few March Browns leaving the surface and even did a reasonable job of "matching the hatch" but by lunchtime I was fishless.
After lunch I walked back to a place I fancied in the morning and to my delight saw fish taking flies off the surface in a slack behind a fallen tree. My novice like casting let me down however and I was unable to present a fly to them and my attempts probably spooked the fish as I didn't see anymore activity.
I lovely spring day on a great stretch of river but I'm still to catch on the fly...maybe next time.

Nice day, no fish showing. Water a bit high and coloured.

A nice day, weak sunshine, water had touch of colour but still able to see bottom near bank, no fish rises all day [11 am--3.30 pm] no fly rises although the occasional olive 5-6 throughout the day. No fish caught, was fishing up stream nymphs of various sorts. Will visit the beat again so very fishy looking!!!