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Wall to wall sunshine today, and it's a bank holiday! A couple of flurries of March Browns, but few LDOs. Four good trout including a beautiful eighteen incher. All on nymph. All returned.

4 Trout

Fantastic fishing during a very short hatch of March Browns. Both rods managed fish between 10 and 16" on dry flies and nymphs.

8 Trout

Interesting beat. The water was still a little too high which made the wading quite hairy in some of the nymphing water and also limited where you could dry fly fish in the flats. The MBs came of in pulses during the afternoon which made for some exciting fishing as we tried our best to make the most of the short hatches. Amazing to see the reaction of the fish when the MBs were hatching. Not the most prolific day - a handful of fish each to 1.75lbs.
This beat has the feel of somewhere that gets poached a lot. This was confirmed in the afternoon when we kicked off two poachers on the opposite bank and were told off by someone on the opposite bank accusing us of poaching (which we weren't)! Our feeling was that this beat needs to be checked for poaching more often and doesn't really justify the price, especially given that it's single bank.

Very small hatch of LDOs and no March Browns seen today with onlly one or two rises. Very gusty and strong wind. Two fish lost, none landed.

March browns came off for about 15 minutes in the afternoon. Managed to land nice fish of around 2lb and dropped a few more.

1 Trout

A lovely spring day - more lamb than lion today after a cold night in the campervan! Short bursts (10-12 minutes each) of furious fly activity, with March Browns in such intensity I have never seen before. Goodness, what a come-back this fly species is making on the Usk. Five good trout to 16 inches caught and returned. First visit to this beat. Very enjoyable.

5 Trout

A really good day. Sporadic hatches of LDOs and the odd flurry of March Browns. Fish rising very enthusiastically during hatches so catching on a dry fly (jingler) was easy. The size of fish caught was staggering. 3 fish of 1lb 13oz and one just over 2lb. Two more similar sized fish hooked and lost. Two otters busy fishing at the bottom of the beat, apparently unconcerned by my presence. 4 goosanders and one cormorant.
Pen y Fan covered in snow but weather was reasonably warm with little wind and some sun. Hatches were right on cue. Started at 11am and came to a full stop at 2.30pm.

4 Trout

Blank - lost a good fish pound and a quarter + in heavy water.

I fished the Ashford House beat with a friend today. Not too cold but quite windy at times. LDOs started showing at about 11am but the hatch never really got going and nothing came up for them. I tried spiders and nymphs to no avail. But then a lot of March Browns started to come off with a flurry of them about every 10 minutes. The trout nailed them but only in one pool it seemed. My friend tried other parts of the river where he could see the MBs but nothing rose. I rose 5 fish, catching one of about a pound. Long distance casts were needed to reach the rising fish, hence my poor hooking stats I think. A lovely day and great to get off the mark for the new season.

1 Trout

Caught 2 trout, one of 16" on dry CDC olive. Fly presentation was difficult against a blustery wind.
This is a lovely beat with bank access improvements recently undertaken. The fish were rising all day in much of the deeper water. Thank you for a great day.

2 Trout