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Had great day on Penpont, lovely stetch of river.

No real hatch during the day (Cold down stream wind in afternoon), but delighted to see how much life there was under the stones in the river, March brown nymphs in abundance, and lots of Stone flies (Think these were Yellow Sallys?) plus a few Yellow May nymphs.

Caught 6 fish in total upto 12 inches. In morning on size 14 Stone Clinger nymph and two fish later in day on dry Kilkhammer ( Was only dry I could get fish to come too).

Not a good day at all, we tried all methods in all the usual places. Not a lot more to report really, other than to state the obvious. Not one sighting or take of any description for either of us all day. It's very unusual to come away without even a touch between the pair of us on this beat as we have had reasonable success in the past.

Just to let you know I had a rather lovely days fishing on Friday. The river was up and rising slowly, but still fishable. I did't catch a huge number of fish but they were all a good size, although nothing over 2lbs.
Thanks again

We had a great days fishing on Saturday. The river was in perfect condition and the grayling were very obliging. We caught approx 20 fish ? all returned obviously ? with 3 14in and 5 12in, the balance were mainly 8 to 12 inch fish.

Most fell to dry flies ? Tupps, Klinkhammer etc, and a few to PT nymphs. One trout at 10in was also returned.

I?ll be in touch soon to book another day before the cold weather arrives.

A lovely days fishing in excellent company. MB opted to fish the dry fly and ended with 14 grayling and 1 out of season trout whilst TP fished nymphs and took 10 out of season trout and 1 grayling. What an interesting result! The grayling were clearly looking upwards whilst the trout had their heads down! The weather was fairly kind with a mild overcast day just occasionally interrupted by a stiff late afternoon breeze.

12 Trout, 15 Grayling

managed to catch 8 decent grayling all returned largest I guess 1.5lb. River seemed odd? Can't really describe it
didn't see a fish rise all day and only one kamikaze parr took fly
I still really enjoyed day and love the variety that each stretch offers. I find it interesting that each beat is so completely different in every aspect from depth, layout of pools and flow,make up of bottom plus where else could you go for a days fishing and have the RAF turn up to fly lowlevel( i swear the harrier jet clipped the trees on his turn into the valley!)
thanks
will phone soon for next trip!

Fished yesterday which was the re-scheduled trip from week before. Found it difficult with the fly rod due to the high bank and trees but managed two fish from the salmon pool.
First was a grilse about 4 lb on a flying `c` and later I had my first fly caught atlantic salmon (had pacifics) a cock fish about 12 lb. Both fish coloured and returned but made the trip a memorable one.

..... I managed my best bag of grayling in over a year on Sunday on the Irfon, on the bottom beat of the Cammarch Hotel water. The day was made special before I even began though, as what I thought was a rock downstream of me began to move and to my surprise was an otter, occasionally sticking his head out of the water as he swam upstream past me. Unfortunately this was too quick for me to get my camera out and get a photo, but I guess it's a good indication of the head of fish in the river. Anyway, I managed to bag a total of 18 grayling (and one out of season brownie) from the long straight downstream of the railway bridge in about 5 hours fishing (down once on the nymphs then back up twice on dry fly): one fish came to a GRHE and all the rest on various shades of klinkhammers (dark and light grey and tan all seemed to work). I was forced into the changes as a few stray back casts left the flies in unreachable branches, but it was a relief to see my favourite dry fly working again after the blank at Clochfaen a couple of week previously. I was also surprised by the high percentage of fish over the pound mark - at least 5 by my estimation, with one possibly nudging 1 3/4lbs, and they all fought really hard into the bargain.

Both N.W.and I had a memorable days fishing at Pwll-y-faedda, possibly one of the best days fishing I've ever enjoyed. We both caught good sized trout and grayling
all on dry fly to the musical accompaniment from the wedding party's jazz band playing such numbers as "Ain't she Sweet".

Back home i felt the need to mail you my experiences on the two beats of the wye, the gromain and the ty ned wed (???? Can't remember precisely), I booked when I had been visiting you in Builth wells.

First of all i would like to say that it was very nice to have met the both of you. You both have been very kind in helping me out, very much appreciated! Most friendly.....And sorry simon, no Bruce and Walker Nordic Speycaster for this guy; I'll stick to my European Two Handed Sage 9141.

The fishing was great for grayling and a bit poor for trout. On both beats I caught a shitload of grayling; really can't tell the figures, it were many.
Mostly on small dries, black hackles, black dubbing, hook 18 en 20. There were a few really big ones, really a lot of fun. Caught three very big chubs as well, one of them blind on one eye.....

I caught only a few trout, perhaps 8 in total over two days, with one fine specimen. I think that a lot of trout is taken home. Have to say that i haven't fished in the evening unfortunately; perhaps an evening rise would have given me some more brownies....due to my family obligations I had to leave each day round 18.00 hours.

In my last week I fished the Usk for one evening, near Talybont. Great evening rise at about 21.00 hours with some stunning fishing. Pity it was so short......Beautifull brown trout of nice size too. I managed to catch 8 of them.

Back home I have been reading the Wye and Usk passport, with the voucher system; looks to me a fantastic way of exploring a lot of water (that is to say, if there's any water in the rivers....Both the wye and usk were quite shallow; allthough i brought my salmonrod with me, i haven't felt the urge of using it, alas.) I'm going to talk it through with a flyfishing friend of mine, perhaps something for next year.

At last and to my shame: I took a grayling home for supper; it was lovely....

Thanks for everything,