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Very warm with bright sunshine, but this beat has more than enough shade to be able to find feeding fish through most of the day. 14 trout in all, to around 12". The lower part of the beat produced the best fish, although by the afternoon it was very busy with swimming dogs and people enjoying picnics. Still, there is plenty of quieter water further up and the coppicing work that was done over the winter has made a real difference. Even so, anyone who wants to visit the beat and help themelves to the range of flies now decorating the trees and various underwater obstacles is more than welcome!

I imagine the fish really started to come on at the end of the day, but that comes rather late at this time of year and, with a long drive home ahead of me, I decided to head off around 7.00. Great day's fishing.

No fish caught - 28c temperature!

A few olives and a smattering of mayfly about, but rises a bit sparse. Ended up with a grayling and a small trout to a ptn, plus four small trout on a klinkhammer.

2 Grayling, best ¾lb. 3 Trout, best 2¼lbs !! plus several small fish

Rectory Beat. Fished the "The flats" up to the "Rock pool".
1 chub: 40cm (aprox 1.5 to 2kg), 1 grayling: 32cm, 2 trout: aprox 22cm.

Flies: dry fly : Klinkhamer, nymph: Hare's Ear Nymph

1 trout about 8 inches but hooked and failed to keep hold of about ten others. Upstream of bridge one nice grayling about 13 inches.

Excellent fishing and good evening rise, but access is difficult in many places and fairly overgrown. More flies in the trees now than in my box.

7 brown trout, 16 black klinkhammer. no real hatch

Arrived about 3'ish, what a difference a week makes! Last Friday I was wearing a fleece this Friday I nearly got heat stroke walking to the river in my waders

Looking out at a wide expanse of shallow gin clear water illuminated by the a glaring sun hanging in a cloudless sky I decided to do a do a bit of nymphing in the faster water further up the beat. Lost too many nymphs in those deep swirly pools , my effects were hampered by picnicking children thrwing stones and swimming! Although to be honest I don’t think they made much of a difference. Lost one small fish on a Gold bead HE.

Decided to settle down and wait for the evening rise, which was the main purpose of my visit and conditions were perfect. Watched a heron flying from pool to pool for an hour, he didn’t have any luck either. No fish had stirred by 8 o clock so got in the car and went down to Glan Usk (plan B) where I could cover more water in the car to find some rising fish.

Arrived at Glan Usk, fish rising in the tail of the fast water above the bridge, got one about 12” on an Adams missed two others, the rest of the fish lost interest.

Drove down to the bottom beat, lots of fish rising but not apparently interested in anything I had in my fly box, changed flies regularly until I couldn’t see to tie knots.
What ever they were taking it was they were “sipping” them from the surface. Sometimes with a head and tail rise action, rather than a “snatch”

3 fish caught, all Brown trout, mayfly.
12" 6" 4" All returned.