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River clear but high and flowing quickly. When LDO's started hatching a few fish could be seen chasing and taking hatching nymphs near or at the surface but very few "rises" and all action was in the fastest water. The "ideal" dry fly water was covered in hatching nymphs but I did not see any taken. Back to the drawing board!!

River was higher than I expected and the cynrig Brook was very dirty flowing into the main river , very little in the way of fly life for the day did get one on the dry after a 10 min mini hatch . Picked up most of the fish on match brown and endrick spiders and a couple on a streamer all in all a good result on a quiet river .

8 Trout

One 2 pound, one was 1 and 1/4 pound, one was 2 and 1/4 pound and one small. All returned.
All caught on spiders.

4 Trout

Didn't fish due to car breakdown.

Bright day, cool light wind. Nothing rising so nymphed and spidered with no joy. March Brown hatch @2.30pm for 45 mins ish when sporadic rises made life interesting but no connection - missed three or four takes. Sand Martins in abundance.

Heavy cloud, 10C maximum temperature, no wind. I was banking on the fact it had not rained in the previous 24 hrs but on arrival, the river running high and fast - but relatively clear. Webcam at Brecon at noon was showing the river at 1'10". Spent four hours working a weighted PTN around the eddies and the slacker water under the bank without any success. No sign of any fly life so left, defeated at 15:30.

Washed off / unfishable

River quite high and in full flow. No hatch and I didn’t see any rising fish. Made contact with 3 or 4 fish using heavy nymphs but none stuck.

Very cold still, 4 degrees at 1100 and snow on Pen y Fan. Sunny breaks forecast but none materialised. A very small number of olives tricked off at lunch, but no decent hatch yet and no rising fish. One 14” BT on the Euronymph rig from the deepest lower pool.

1 Trout

First day of the season; had to be done! Dressed for skiing rather than fly fishing - but the temperature did peak at 4C. Overcast, but no wind. River at summer levels after a very dry February. No sign of any fly life all day and only the occasional movement from small fry. A day for tungsten bead PTN’s. Nothing on the shallows or in the deeper pools but lost a good fish fishing the crease in the fast water at the bottom of the beat. Persistence paid off and got a BT of a little under 1lb with the same tactics. Fish in excellent condition for so early in the season.

I have had worse starts to the season!

1 Trout