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Lovely day,warm annd sunny. Never saw a fish. Blank.

A lovely morning on Glan-yr-Afon. Bright sunshine, warm, fairly still. Not much activity at lower end of beat, so tried nymphs etc before switching to a dark olive (I should have paid more attention to past catch returns posted here) when I saw a few fish rising towards upper end of beat below waterfall. Had plenty of interest, but possibly needed a smaller size as couldn't connect. Eventually had a fine WBT of c. 14oz (returned). By around 2pm few fish rising.

A blank for both of us. Very low water no fish sighted at all. Lovely beat though.

5 x trout 10-12 inches. Another bright day beginning with a ground frost. A fairly slow-burning grannom hatch during the midday hours and fish difficult to tempt: two on Hare's Lug and Plover spiders and three on Dave Collin's Shuttlecock Grannom Emerger.

Low water level, lovely weather. Couple of trout, one hatch, one fly, one trout about 1lb.

2 nice brownies caught. One on a streamer and the other one on an olive. Both fish were returned unharmed.

Seven seems to be the magic number this week, a catch of 7 fish at Penpont, mostly in the 12 inch range but one fish that was just over 18 inches. Plenty of LDOs around lunch time but no grannom.

Snapped twice on a pheasant tail nymph and a missed take on a hare's ear. (Amateur!) Intermediate line. Lots of hatching going on but very few rises. I'll be back.

Bright, sunny but cold on arriving-warming up to 16C during the afternoon. We caught two lovely fish of 2lbs and 3lbs in the morning from the fast riffles at the bottom of the beat. After lunch we caught 3 fish of about 1lb each and two small fish on the stretch between the car park and the bridge - nothing above the bridge.
We fished a double nymph set-up with a weighted ptn on the tail and a small hares ear on the dropper. Nearly all fish took the dropper fly. A variety of flies were hatching throughout the day, but the trout were not interested. A really lovely day on this glorious beat.

Lovely early season day on The Lugg at Eyton. Not fished here before so unsure what to expect. The river from the footbridge upwards is a lovely piece of water, varied, with lots of fishy looking haunts. Started off fishing the duo and rising fish to a dry sedge. As the sun came out so did waves of grannom. At first the only fish showing were young unmentionables. I thought I might be plagued by them until fishing up passed the bridge when trout started taking. A few bends up and I connected with a very big lady, easily over 2lb, who ran all over the place and was shadowed by its equally sized partner. Showing no sign of tiring, she eventually ran upstream and lost me in some tree roots. Being out of season, I'll consider it a long distance release. Fished on until late afternoon. The top stretch above the weir in woodland is well worth fishing. Some deep pools and a few good size trout. Tally for the day was five trout and lots of unmentionables, two of whom I've noted for a return visit.