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Not a chance; river was in flood, a raging brown torrent. Lovely place though, I'll be back.

If not wash off then snow off!
Too cold to fish -3C.

Too cold for any fish to be seen or fished for, -3C.

Unfortunately because of the heavy snow I was unable to reach the beat. In any event it would have been a 'wash-off'.

Unfortunately rained off but look fwd to re booking

Had meeting over afternoon tea at Gliffaes which gave me excuse to visit Talybont for first time. Lovely spot but too cold at two degrees for me to try........

Unfortunately rained off but we look fwd to re booking

A very cold day, no higher than 5C. It started raining about 11:00am and didn't stop. We did see a few olives on the surface, but no sign of any fish at all! We called it a day about 15:00.

5 x trout 13-15 inches, spiders. A last minute diversion to the middle Usk after the upper Wye rose a foot and muddied up during the night. As you might perhaps guess, these were taken during a large dark olive hatch between 1.30pm and 3.00pm. Generally speaking, rather than a sudden and intense spring olive hatch which lasts 15 minutes, I would prefer a sparse hatch of fly over a longer period - this was one of the latter. For the rest of the day, the river might have been empty.
I have to say that, so far, we have all been finding this a really tough spring and very slow to start for trouting. I think it was JH from Surrey reporting on 14th March who wondered whether the tributaries would not warm up first and be the best place to start? There are always exceptions, but my own experience is the opposite: that we usually find the main stems come on to fish first first, the Usk tending to be a little in advance of the Wye, then the upper rivers and medium size tributaries, and finally the brooks, the high altitude ones being last of all to warm up. But, as I have already said, this cold spring is an exceptionally tough one. Don't worry; warm weather will get here sooner or later.

5 Trout

1 Trout