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First time on this beat. A few grannom and olives but not many fish moving to them (same further upstream towards Abergavenny) in the hot, bright conditions. Just 3 trout, biggest 7" to cdc emerger patterns. I will return to fish the beat when the weather is better. The top half looked potentially great trout water.

1 x brownie @ 9in. Water low, clear and still cold despite sun.

Caught just the one but it was a beautie, 1lb 10oz and in stunning condition. Had three other takes from smaller fish on a CDC LDO, including one of ~1lb but didn't hook them. Few rises and they petered out so I put on a small olive baetis nymph, thought I'd lucked out until I had one of those 'Damn I've hooked a rock...hold on it's moving' moments! Decent numbers of LDOs hatching through the afternoon, also the odd larger fly (also saw some big 'stoneclinger' husks on water surface - possibly even March browns?). Very pretty beat and a nice day day out - thanks!

This was the first time at the estate and I can only say it was a fantastic day, all of the team from the estate were very friendly and helpful.

We had 6 trout in total between 10" and 16 " all were returned. Surprisingly on such a warm day there was very little fly activity, all the fish were taken on various gold headed nymph, with smaller fish snatching at small olives.

I would thoroughly recommend the estate as a place to visit.

An interesting day, spent the morning searching for fish with no avail until I switched to summer tactics then I had six fish from one run in quick succession. The best of which measured 22-24 inches. Over the course of the day I had another couple of fish.

No hatch to speak of all day and I did not see a fish rise.

Low water, crystal clear. Few flies hatching but very occasional fish rising. None caught.

Nil catch. One very savage take. Nice beat with good variety of pools. Enormous evening hatch.

One brown trout of 2lbs plus. It was returned safely as requested.

A lovely looking stream - the upper section has some lovely pools. The river was very low and clear so I will reserve my judgment of the beat for a day when the water is higher and fish are feeding a bit more. Few fish seen even though the pools were no doubt home to trout. No fish landed - several good fish rose to sedge and lost - one particularly big fish lost.

Beautiful day, slight colour to water, sky with high cloud but warm. From 11am till 5pm LDOs present but not in large numbers. Saw one fish rise! But what to? I cast an olive klinkhammer with a PTN at the point for perhaps 10mins but could not tempt the fish to take. The only other fish seen and caught was a fine 10" wild brownie and what a fight this little fish put up, tail walking and charging off all over the stream, on light tackle great fun. The fish was returned unharmed, it took the PTN. Strange thing is, I've fished this beat before and caught lots of fish and seen a lot. Today I only fished half the beat in the time as above and I then walked the rest but did not see another fish. May be still early. Dippers and Sand Martins for company though. Great day, thank's WUF.