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Staying at Little Oasis Pandy just across the road from the beat - highly recommended. Beat access nice and easy, but was only able to fish just up past the footbridge due to cattle in the stream. 1x wbt 8" followed shortly after by 2x energetic 10" grayling from deeper pools. All took a green jig nymph with a purple hotspot.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

First time in this beat. Water low rocks very slippery. Fished ptn under a caddis. Caught 2 on nymph and 1 on the e/h caddis. No other rises seen. Arrived at noon left for upper longtown at 3.

3 Trout

A cold day for the time of year, few rising trout. Saw no rising fish in the morning. And fell in, so had to return to my van on the caravan site in Pandy for dry clothes, and a snooze. Went back later, saw a few rising fish and managed to catch one trout, 7 inches. Lost a second, missed a few more.

1 Trout

Really enjoyed fishing this beat bit of extra water makes all the difference, lots of flies hatching including the large brook duns caught 3 nice fish on a dry fly.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

No rises seen and no luck in general!

1 x 7 inch trout, Goldbead Hare's Ear, first of the season. Well, I would have wished to be out on the Usk today, but there was too much water coming down it for my liking. There was plenty of cold water tumbling down the Honddu from the Black Mountains also, although it was certainly fishable. However, I suspect all the little trout except this one were still tucked up in bed and perhaps I should have been. What a strange spring! It was snowing hard while I was fishing a lake yesterday, although the rainbows were really going for it. Today I saw marsh-marigolds in full bloom in a Monmouthshire bog, which is at least 6 weeks early. Some hawthorn hedges near Abergavenny are already in leaf.

1 Trout

very cold, no fly hatching. Trout quarter to half pound. Grayling juvenile.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was clearing during the morning. I lost three trout before lunch, caught four in the afternoon. One 7 inches, two 8 inches and a ten inch fish, all on a dry sedge. Not easy, but great fun. Stayed the night before and the night afterwards at the Caravan club site at Pandy. Excellent site on the bank of the Honddu.
Saw dippers, kingfishers, and for the first time ever, an otter. What a lovely river. My thanks to the Foundation for making this beat available.

4 Trout

Dry fly.

River conditions seemed little affected by recent rains: level up only slightly and a hint of colour. The upper part of the beat is mainly broken water with a few pools. The fish taken were confident risers to Tups and Kites Imperial on the middle/lower part.

2 Trout