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1 brown trout 2lb returned caught on a gold head nymph. (2 rods).

Returned to this beat on the Usk after doing battle and eventualy losing a good fish last year. This is a wonderful stretch, but with a very limited hatch things were tough with us both failing to catch. Sometimes being there is enough and we both enjoyed the day, just wish it wasn't a 2 hour drive home!

Richard
1 brown trout 1lb.

Steve
1 brown trout 3lb, 1 brown trout 2.5lb, 1 brown trout 1lb, 3 brown trout 9", 1 brown trout 6".

All fish returned and caught on dry flies, fantastic stretch of water.

Fished for a couple of hours yesterday evening. River definitely showing signs of spring - bluebells on the banks and plenty of fish rising. 4 trout to 10" with, as ever, loads of others missed. All took an f-fly.

After overnight rain and showers during day, river rose. River becoming fuller and coloured by early afternoon. Negligible hatch, and little surface activity from the trout. Rose 2 fish and caught a small one on dry fly, before changing to nymph. This was unsuccessful. What a difference a day makes (in the words of the song !!) from the excellent conditions of 29th April.

29 april fished glan yr afon,caught 7 trout between us on klinkhammer (golden olive),and greenwell spiders.30 april fished dinas abercynrig caught 12 trout plenty of olives off ,did well with klinkhammers and spiders,all fish returned.

Richard
1 brown trout 10" returned.

Steve
1 brown trout 3", 3 brown trout 9",
1 brown trout 7", all returned.

7 trout, 2 @ 10", one at 15" which went like a rocket!! One taken on a black shuttlecock buzzer, the rest on heavy nymphs.

Water levels very low.

One of those rare days when conditions were good in all areas - nice river height, water not too cold (10 C), air temperature rising to 18 C, cloudy with sunny periods. Olives started to appear around 12.30pm, but not in big numbers, with a few Late March Brown around 2pm. Rise lasted until 3pm with some activity until 5pm. Caught 20 trout on dry Parachute Adams, with 7 over 1lb 8oz, 4 of which were 2lb or over, heaviest 2lb 4oz.
Took two 2lb fish. A lovely day, and one of my most productive in over 20 years fishing the Usk.

Cliff and I fished the upper Honddu on beat 33 after I spoke to you on our way back from our abortive Devon trip. It was simply the most beatiful setting of any of the stretches I have ever fished. The fishing was pretty good too. I had four fish to 14 inches and all over ten inches. Cliff hooked a couple and got broken by one. The fly hatches were remarkable. There were flies in large numbers and of number of species some of which I hadn't seen before. We must be the only anglers to make a 700 mile round trip to fish a stream 60 miles from home.